Environmental Cards

Based on feedback from Kathy Vandiver (MIT), Shaw Ree Chen (U.Rochester), Nancy Whitaker (U.Iowa), Ann Backus (Harvard School of Public Health), Ogannaya (We Act, NYC), Laurel Kincl (U.Oregon), David Osterberg (U.Iowa):

• Climate change is real
• Air Pollution
• Water Quality
• Foods and Pesticides
• Air
• Radon Testing
• Sun Screen and other methods for avoiding too much UV
• Examining Personal Care Products for toxics
• Noise
• Negative effects of stress
• Looking at your neighborhood for ways to improve health
• Renewal fuels for improving emissions
• safety
• uv causes DNA damage, mutations can lead to cancer – mutations earlier in life make more opportunity for accumulation of hits(in the cell’s progeny) over a life time.
• social environment
• resources available for information on toxics
• poison
• disasters can cause toxins to increase ( mold)
• emergency
• lead poisoning
• children’s developmental growth makes them more vulnerable
• Growing fast - endocrines
• Molds
• Indoor air pollution
• Smoking
• Genetic susceptibility confers unequal dose responses
• Farm foods
• Food miles – local makes less pollution
• Chose your fertilizer carefully, value soil.
• Green cleaning products
• Asthma triggers