Wednesday, December 14, 2005

[Schools] The Need for Healthier Schools Source: Gotham Gazette, 12/12/05. Stephen Boese, New York State director of the Healthy Schools Network, writes about environmental hazards at schools (often unknown or overlooked), progress that has been made toward improving school environmental conditions in New York, and what more can be done to make schools healthier. [Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Roundtable (GLRPPR) News] 3:56:22 PM Google It!    [Lead] New resource guide on lead poisoning from NLM A new web page that addresses the relationship between lead and human health has been added to the National Library of Medicine's (NLM) Enviro-Health Links at http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/lead.html. This page provides links to selected web sites on exposure, treatment, and prevention of lead poisoning. Lead is a naturally-occurring element that can be harmful to humans when ingested or inhaled. Lead poisoning can cause a number of adverse human health effects, but is particularly detrimental to the neurological development of children. People can be exposed to lead through the air, as well as through accidentally or intentionally eating soil or paint chips, and food or water contaminated with lead. NLM also offers other Enviro-Health Links on topics such as: Children's Environmental Health http://phpartners.org/cehir/sampler.html Indoor Air Pollution http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/indoorairpollution.html Outdoor Air Pollution http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/outdoorairpollution.html Arsenic http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/arsenicandhumanhealth.html For a complete list, see http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/envirohealthlinks.html. 3:41:20 PM Google It!    [Schools] Have Fries - Will Travel! Have Fries - Will Travel! is an adventure story for children of all ages. It features "Rock," an eco-rap singer, who buys "Tiny," a smelly diesel car, at a used car lot. Rock converts Tiny to run on biodiesel, usually made from soybean oil. 3:37:52 PM Google It!    [Grants] 3rd Annual P3 Award: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity, and the Planet The P3 competition will provide grants to teams of college students to research, develop, and design solutions to challenges to sustainability. P3 highlights people, prosperity, and the planet – the three pillars of sustainability – as the next step beyond P2 or pollution prevention. The P3 Award program is a partnership between the public and private sectors to progress toward sustainability by achieving the mutual goals of economic prosperity, protection of the natural systems of the planet, and providing a higher quality of life for its people. EPA and its partners offer the P3 Award competition to respond to the technical needs of the developed and developing world in moving towards the goal of sustainability. Please see the P3 Award website (www.epa.gov/P3) for more details about this program. 10:41:01 AM Google It!

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