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Arsenic Treated Wood
Arts and Crafts Health Hazards
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Community Health
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Environmental Justice
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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Nuclear
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Toxic Chemicals

Arsenic Treated Wood
Consumer Product Safety Commission
<http://www.cpsc.gov/phth/ccafact.html>
Fact Sheet: CCA -Treated Wood Used in Playground Equipment

Environmental Working Group - Arsenic Issues Page
<http://ewg.org/issues/arsenic/>

Environmental Working Group - Tips
<http://ewg.org/reports/allhandsondeck/10tips.php>
Ten safety steps to reduce your family's exposure to arsenic from arsenic-treated wood

EPA Questions & Answers: Draft Preliminary Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Children Who Contact Chromated Copper Arsenate (CCA) Treated Playsets and Decks (11-13-03)
<http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/chemicals/draft_cca_qa.htm>

Healthy Building Network
<http://www.healthybuilding.net/arsenic/hbn_wood_factsheet.html>

Arsenic Wood: Hazards and Alternatives

Arts and Crafts Health Hazards
Arts, Crafts and Theatre Safety
<http://www.caseweb.com/acts/>

Health Hazards in the Arts Bibliography
<http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/healthhaz.html>

Health and Safety in the Arts and Crafts
<http://www.ianr.unl.edu/pubs/consumered/nf126.htm>

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Children's Environmental Health
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) - Child Health
<http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov/child/>

EPA America's Children and the Environment
<http://www.epa.gov/envirohealth/children/>

Birth Defect Research for Children
<http://www.birthdefects.org/>

Boston Medical Center - Not Safe at Home Report
<http://www.bmc.org/pediatrics/research/Research/Doc4Kids/docs4kids_report.pdf>

Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction
<http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/>
National Toxicology Program (NTP)

Center for Health, Environment and Justice
<http://www.chej.org/>

Children's Defense Fund
<http://www.childrensdefense.org/>

Children's Environmental Health and Safety Inventory of Research (CHEHSIR)
<http://www.epa.gov/chehsir>
Database of federal research related to children's environmental health.

Children's Environmental Health Institute
<http://www.cehi.org/>

Children's Environmental Health Network
<http://www.cehn.org>

Children's Environmental Health Network email list
Send a blank message to cehnlist-on@cehn.org to join

Children's Environmental Health Project - Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment
<http://www.cape.ca/children/prev1.html>

Children's Health, Environmental Health Perspectives, NIEHS
<http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/children/>

Children's Health Environmental Coalition
<http://www.checnet.org/>

The State of Children's Health and Environment 2002 Report

Collaborative on Health and the Environment - Common Sense Steps to Protecting our Health
<http://www.protectingourhealth.org/commonsense/commonsense.htm>

North America Commission for Environmental Cooperation
<http://www.cec.org/home/index.cfm?varlan=english>

including Children's Health and Environmental Indicators Report

envirohealthaction
<http://www.envirohealthaction.org/>

Emagazine - Bringing Up Baby Naturally
<http://articles.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1594/is_5_10/ai_55909772>

EPA Children's Environmental Health
<http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/index.htm>

EPA Office of Children's Health Protection
<http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/homepage>

Growing Up Toxic: Chemical Exposures and Increases in Developmental Disease

<http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/envirocaliftoxics.asp?id2=13673>

Kids and Chemicals - NOW with Bill Moyers
<http://www.pbs.org/now/science/kidslaws.html>

Institute for Children's Environmental Health
<http://www.iceh.org/>

Michigan Center for the Environment and Children's Health

<http://www.sph.umich.edu/mcech/index.html>

National Environmental Health Association - Position on Children's Environmental Health
<http://www.neha.org/position_papers/PositionChildren.html>

National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care -- Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards 2002
<http://nrc.uchsc.edu/CFOC/index.html>

Natural Resources Defense Council - How to Protect Your Children
<http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/g5worst.asp>

National Safety Council Environmental Health Center
<http://www.nsc.org/ehc/chldhlth.htm>

Partnership for Children's Health and the Environment
<http://www.partnersforchildren.org/>

Preventing Harm
<http://www.preventingharm.org/>

Safe Kids Now - National Environmental Trust
<http://environet.policy.net/health/>

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Recalls and Alerts
<http://www.babybag.com/cpsc_rec.htm>

World Health Organization - The Atlas of Children's Health and the Environment

<http://www.who.int/ceh/publications/atlas/en/>

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Community Health
American Public Health Association
<http://www.apha.org/>

Chemical Scoreboard
<http://www.scorecard.org/>

Community Health Status Indicators Project
<http://www.phf.org/data-infra.htm>
Directly compare any county with similar counties according to community health indicators.  Easy to use.

Community Toolbox for Children's Environmental Health
<http://www.communitytoolbox.org>

Department of Health and Human Services
<http://www.hhs.gov/>

Environmental Health and Safety Online

<http://www.ehso.com/>

Epidemiology, the Internet, and Global Health

<http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/assist/topicsearch.htm>

Links to powerpoint lectures on a variety of topics

Medscape - Public Health and Prevention

<http://www.medscape.com/publichealthhome>

National Environmental Training Center for Small Communities
<http://www.netc.wvu.edu>

Pulmonary Hemosiderosis and Stachybotrys Mold, University Hospitals, Cleveland
<http://gcrc.meds.cwru.edu/stachy/default.htm>

Sustainable Cleveland Environmental Health Action Guide
<http://www.nhlink.net/enviro/scp/>

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Drinking Water
envirohealthaction
<http://www.envirohealthaction.org/>

Drinking Water Resources
<http://www.cyber-nook.com/water/>

EPA - Safe Drinking Water
<http://www.epa.gov/enviro/html/sdwis/sdwis_ov.html>

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Energy
Economic Input-Output Life Cycle Assessment
<http://www.eiolca.net/>
Green Design Initiative, Carnegie Mellon

Environmental Law and Policy Center - Energy section

<http://www.elpc.org/energy/index.html>

Green Energy Ohio

<http://www.greenenergyohio.org/default.cfm?exec=Page.View&PageID=1>

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
<http://www.ieer.org>

Northeast Midwest Institute

<http://www.nemw.org/energy.htm>

Public Citizen Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program
<http://www.citizen.org/cmep/>

Rocky Mountain Institute
<http://www.rmi.org>

SafeClimate - Work Resources Institute
<http://www.safeclimate.net/>

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Environmental Justice
EcoJustice Network
<http://www.irejn.org/>

Environmental Justice and Health Union
<http://www.ejhu.org/>

Environmental Justice Bibliography Database

<http://cfpub.epa.gov/ejbib/>

Fully indexed bibliography of published materials relating to environmental justice

Environmental Justice Coalition

<http://groups.msn.com/environmentaljusticecoalition>

MapCruzin.com
<http://www.MapCruzin.com>

National Center for Cultural Competence, Georgetown University
<http://www.georgetown.edu/research/gucdc/nccc/>

National Environmental Justice Advisory Council
<http://www.epa.gov/compliance/>

Poverty and Race Research Action Council

<http://prrac.org/>

Scorecard Envrionmental Justice Data
<http://www.scorecard.org/community/ej-index.tcl>

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General
American Chemical Society - Environmental Chemistry
<http://www.envirofacs.org/>

Centers for Disease Control - Environmental Health
<http://www.cdc.gov/node.do?id=0900f3ec8000e044>

Collaborative on Health and the Environment - Common Sense Steps to Protecting our Health
<http://www.protectingourhealth.org/commonsense/commonsense.htm>

EcoCity -The 10 most important things to do to save the earth

<http://www.ecocitycleveland.org/health/10-best.html>

Environmental Health Clearinghouse
<http://infoventures.com/e-hlth/answers.html>
Questions and answers on a variety of environmental health topics from a private contractor for NIEHS.

Environmental Health Information Service - Environews by Topic
<http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov/topic>
Articles from Environmental Health Perspectives free online plus research reports from 1993-1997.

Free Environmental, Health, and Safety Software and Related Resources
<http://www.EHSfreeware.com>

Health-Track
<http://health-track.org/>
A project of Pew Charitable Trusts

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Grants/Funding
Environmental Grantmakers Association
<http://www.ega.org/>

The Foundation Center
<http://www.fdncenter.org/>

Grant-Writing Tutorial Software on line
<http://www.epa.gov/seahome>

National Council for Science and the Environment
<http://www.ncseonline.org/>
Listing of foundations that fund environmental projects.

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Great Lakes
Great Lakes United
<http://www.glu.org/>

International Joint Commission: United States and Canada
<http://www.ijc.org/en/home/main_accueil.htm>

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Influencing Policy
Action Center - Save Our Environment
<http://www.saveourenvironment.org>

American Public Health Association - Legislative Issues and Advocacy
<http://www.apha.org/legislative>

Be Safe

<http://www.besafenet.com/>

A nationwide initiative to build support for the precautionary approach to prevent pollution and environmental destruction before it happens

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
<http://www.cbpp.org/>

Center for Media & Democracy and PR Watch
<http://www.prwatch.org/>

Corporate Watch
<http://www.corpwatch.org/>

Corporate Watchdog Media
<http://corporatewatchdogmedia.org/>

envirohealthaction
<http://www.envirohealthaction.org/>

Environmental Defense Action Network
<http://www.actionnetwork.org/>

Hazel Henderson Homepage
<http://www.hazelhenderson.com>

Health Care Without Harm
<http://www.noharm.org>

House of Representatives - Write Your Representative
<http://www.house.gov/writerep/>

Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA)
<http://www.accuracy.org>

League of Conservation Voters
<http://www.lcv.org>

OMB (Office of Mamagement and Budget) Watch
<http://www.ombwatch.org/ombwatcher/current.html>

Project Vote Smart
<http://www.vote-smart.org>

Public Campaign
<http://www.publicampaign.org/>

Public Citizen's Congress Watch
<http://www.congresswatchdog.org>

State legislative information and policy analysis
<http://stateserv.hpts.org/public/pubhome.nsf>

Tom Paine: A Journal of Opinion
<http://www.tompaine.com>

Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
<http://www.tlpj.org>

Union of Concerned Scientists Home Page
<http://www.ucsusa.org>

Universal Health Care Action Network
<http://www.uhcan.org/>

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Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
American Environmental Health Foundation
<http://www.aehf.com>

Environmental Illness Resource
<http://www.ei-resource.org/>

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity - Global
<http://www.mcs-global.org/>

Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Survivors
<http://www.mcsurvivors.com/>

North Carolina Chemical Injury Network
<http://www.ncchem.com/>

Nova Scotia Allergy and Environmental Health Association
<http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/>

Ohio Network for the Chemically Injured
<http://www.ohionetwork.org>
link to low cost analysis for heavy metal contamination

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Nuclear
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
<http://www.ieer.org>

Nuclear Information & Resource Service
<http://www.nirs.org>

Radiation and Public Health Project
<http://www.radiation.org/index.html>

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Occupational Health
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicne

<http://www.acoem.org/>

American Industrial Hygiene Association
<http://www.aiha.org>

Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics
<http://www.aoec.org/>

Environmental Justice and Health Union
<http://www.ejhu.org/>

Hazards Magazine - Hazards and Workers' Health International, UK
<http://www.hazards.org/>

Information Ventures - Databases of occupational health articles
<http://infoventures.com>

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
<http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/homepage.html>

National Safety Council
<http://www.nsc.org>

Occupational & Environmental Medicine Listserve
<http://occ-env-med.mc.duke.edu/oem/occ-env-.htm>

Occupational & Environmental Medicine WWW Resource Index, Duke University
<http://occ-env-med.mc.duke.edu/oem/index2.htm>

Occupational Health & Environmental Medicine Resources
<http://occ-env-med.mc.duke.edu/oem/edinburg.htm>

Occupational/Environmental Health Listserve
<http://occ-env-med.mc.duke.edu/oem/archive.htm>

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
<http://www.osha.gov>

Society for Occupational and Environmental Health (SOEH)

<http://www.soeh.org/index.html#>

United Auto Workers Health and Safety Newsletter
<http://www.uaw.org/hs/00/index.html>

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Risk Assessment and Communication
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) - Risk Communication Primer
<http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/HEC/primer.html>

Be Safe's Precautionary Principle

<http://www.besafenet.com/PPFactsheet1.pdf>

California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment
<http://www.oehha.ca.gov/home.html>

EPA Health Risk Assesments
<http://www.epa.gov/ncea/>
Risk assessments for dioxin, lead, mercury, ozone, pcb's and others.

Risk World
<http://www.riskworld.com/>

Science and Environmental Health Network
<http://www.sehn.org/>

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Schools

Asthma and Schools
<http://www.asthmaandschools.org/essentials/index.htm>

CalHealthySchools.org
<http://www.calhealthyschools.org/>

Center for Health, Environment and Justice

<http://www.chej.org/>

Entomological Society of America - IPM in Schools
<http://www.entsoc.org/publicaffairs/position_papers/school_ipm.htm>

Environment and Human Health
<http://www.ehhi.org/>

EPA - Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools
<http://www.epa.gov/iaq/schools/index.html>
Indoor Air Quality:Tools for Schools, IAQ Coordinator's Guide, which is part of the EPA's Packet for schools can be found here, along with several references.

Healthy Schools Network
<http://www.healthyschools.org>

Integrated Pest Management in Schools
<http://schoolipm.ifas.ufl.edu/>

MedlinePlus - School Health
<http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/schoolhealth.html>

School Asthma Allergy
<http://schoolasthmaallergy.com/>

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Sustainability and Sprawl
Built Environment Center
<http://sustainable.state.fl.us/fdi/edesign/resource/index.html>

Center for Public Environmental Oversight
<http://www.cpeo.org>

Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST)
<http://solstice.crest.org>

EcoCity Cleveland
<http://www.ecocitycleveland.org/>

envirohealthaction
<http://www.envirohealthaction.org/>

Environment and Agriculture
<http://www.iatp.org/enviroag/>

Land Trust Alliance
<http://www.lta.org>

Northeast Ohio Environmental Monitoring for Public Access and Community Tracking (EMPACT)
<http://empact.nhlink.net/docs/neoframe.html>

Planning Commissioners Journal - Planners Web
<http://www.plannersweb.com>

Rocky Mountain Institute
<http://www.rmi.org>

Smart Communities Network
<http://www.sustainable.doe.gov

Smart Growth Network
<http://www.smartgrowth.org>

Sprawl Network
<http://riceinfo.rice.edu/~lda/Sprawl_Net/Home.html>

Sprawl Watch Clearinghouse
<http://www.sprawlwatch.org>

Sustainability
<http://www.cyberus.ca/~sustain1/index2.html>

Sustainable Cleveland Partnership
<http://www.nhlink.net/enviro/scp/description.html>

Sustainable Development Indicators
<http://www.sdi.gov/>

Sustainable Organizing
<http://www.americanpie.org/>

TerraKnowledge
<http://www.terraknowledge.com/>

United Nations Development Program
<http://www.undp.org>

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Toxic Chemicals
Breast Cancer and Environmental Rixk Factors Program
<http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/bcerf/>

Breast Cancer Fund - The State of the Evidence: What is the Connection Between Chemicals and Breast Cancer?
<http://www.breastcancerfund.org/environment_evidence_main.htm>

Chemical Industry Archives - featured on Trade Secrets - a Moyers Report
<http://www.ewg.org/>

Center for Environmental Health
<http://www.cehca.org/index.htm>

Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction
<http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/>
National Toxicology Program

Center for Health, Environment and Justice
<http://www.chej.org/>

The Collaborative on Health and the Environment
<http://www.healthandenvironment.org/>

Coming Clean
<http://www.come-clean.org/>

envirohealthaction
<http://www.envirohealthaction.org/>

EPA - Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program
<http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/oscpendo/index.htm>

Environmental Estrogens and Other Hormones
<http://e.hormone.tulane.edu/>

Environmental Health Strategy Center
<http://www.preventharm.org/>

European Workshop on Endocrine Disruptors Workshop Report
<http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/docum/01262_en.htm>

Greenpeace - Toxics Campaign
<http://www.greenpeace.org/~toxics/>

International POPs Elimination Network
<http://ipen.ecn.cz/>
POPs are persistent organic pollutants.

Late Lessons from Early Warnings: The Precautionary Principle 1896-2000
<http://reports.eea.eu.int/environmental_issue_report_2001_22/en>

Louisville Charter for Safer Chemicals
<http://www.louisvillecharter.org/>

National Environmental Health Association - Position on Endocrine Disrupters
<http://www.neha.org/position_papers/PositionEndocrine.html>

National Report on Human Exposure of Environmental Chemicals - Center for Disease Control
<http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/>

NIH Household Products Guide

<http://householdproducts.nlm.nih.gov/>

Health and safety information on household products

Preventing Harm
<http://www.preventingharm.org/>

Our Stolen Future
<http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/index.htm>

Trade Secrets - A Moyers Report
<http://www.pbs.org/tradesecrets/>

TOXMAP
<http://toxmap.nlm.nih.gov/toxmap/main/index.jsp>
U.S. National Library of Medicine site helps users create maps showing where TRI chemicals are released and Superfund sites on the National Priority List ( NPL) are located. TOXMAP overlays US Census population information, income figures from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and health data from the National Cancer Institute and the National Center for Health Statistics.

World Health Org.- Hazardous chemicals in human and environmental health
<http://www.who.int/pcs/training_material/hazardous_chemicals/cover_pages.htm>

 

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