- Center for Environmental Health (CEH)
- Works to protect families and communities from toxic chemicals. Website includes helpful tips for reducing exposure, as well as information on advocacy.
- Healthy Child Healthy World
- Nonprofit dedicated to educating parents, supporting protective policies, and engaging communities to create healthy environments where children and families can flourish. Website includes shopping pocket guides, Healthy Home party kit, healthy eating guide.
- Environmental Working Group
- Info on broad range of environmental health topics, including food, consumer products, children’s health, water; chemical index lists health effects and routes of exposure for many chemicals; health tips include easy-to-use guides on topics from sunscreen to cookware to plastics.
- Breast Cancer Fund
- Defines chemicals linked to breast cancer and routes of exposure; provides tips for preventing exposure, including “tip cards” to send to friends and family; describes many possibilities for advocacy, locally and nationally. Link to State of the Evidence: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment; landmark 2010 report summarizing current scientific evidence, and linking the science to actions we can take to reduce risk.
- Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment
- University of California San Francisco. Dedicated to creating a healthier environment for human reproduction and development by advancing scientific inquiry, clinical care and health policies that prevent exposures to harmful chemicals in our environment. Website contains links to “Toxic Matters” brochure, an excellent overview on how to prevent toxic exposures and advocate for change, and to the “Shaping Our Legacy: Reproductive Health and the Environment” report.
- Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE)
- A national organization that works to eliminate toxic chemicals that impact women’s health by changing consumer behaviors, corporate practices and government policies. Includes tips on reducing exposure and advocating for change.
- Collaborative on Health & the Environment (CHE)
- An international partnership committed to strengthening the scientific and public dialogue on the impact of environmental factors on human health and catalyzing initiatives to address these concerns.
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Environmental action group. Site also contains links to green living and eating guides.
- Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
- Encourages companies to use safe ingredients in their products.
- Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ)
- Grassroots national organization dedicated to working with vulnerable communities to prevent chemical exposure. See also ww.besafenet.com for information on their BE SAFE Campaign for Precautionary Action.
- Children’s Environmental Health Network
- A national multi-disciplinary organization whose mission is to protect the fetus and the child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment.
- Health Care Without Harm
- Works to reduce pollution in the health care industry.
- Environmental Protection Agency: Environmental Health Laws
- Environmental Protection Agency’s website on what health environment laws exist. To learn more about the government’s assessment of the weakness of many of these laws, see U.S. Government Accountability Office. Search the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Environmental Health Database to track legislation addressing environmental health.
- Poison Plastic Campaign
- Works to eliminate the use of PVC.
- Beyond Pesticides
- National organization with the primary goal of effecting change through local action, assisting individuals and community-based organizations to stimulate discussion on the hazards of toxic pesticides, and providing information of safe alternatives.
- Environment California: Environmental Health
- Latest news in environmental health policy reform at the state and national levels.
- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: Food and Health
- Advocates for public policy reform aimed at creating a less contaminated food supply.
- Scorecard: The Pollution Information Site
- An interactive database that documents pollution levels in counties throughout the U.S.
- Healthy Schools Network, Inc.
- Advocates nationally to improve children’s environmental health in schools.
- Green Schools Initiative
- Started by parents to improve the environmental health and ecological sustainability of schools.
- Center for Health, Environment and Justice’s Green Flag Program
- Aim to make schools healthy and safe through investigation, education, innovation and action.
- Healthy Schools Campaign Pesticide Action Kit
- Practical kit for reforming school environmental health policy.
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Healthy Schools Initiative
- Links to programs and resources to help prevent and resolve environmental issues in schools.
- Pacific Institute
- Works to advance environmental protection, economic development, and social equity. See “Paying with our Health: The Real Cost of Freight Transport in California” Freight Transport Campaign
- EJnet.org
- Environmental justice resources for activists. For tips on writing letters to the editor, see Green Media Toolshed’s media training.
- Safer Chemicals Healthy Families
- A nationwide effort to pass smart federal policies that protect us from toxic chemicals.
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Citizens and scientists for environmental solutions. Campaigns include food safety, clean energy, clean vehicles.
- Women’s Health & Environmental Network
- Advocates for environmental health policy at local, state and federal level.
- Alliance for Healthy Homes
- Seeks to protect children from environmental health hazards in and around their homes by advocating for policy solutions and building capacity for primary prevention in communities throughout the US.
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- Advocacy organization dedicated to addressing environmental health threats.
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