From annmelamed at earthlink.net Thu Jul 1 14:37:55 2004 From: annmelamed at earthlink.net (Ann Melamed) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:37:55 -0700 Subject: [Healthwksp] 3rd Conference on Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenesis Message-ID: <005801c45fb3$ad5acbd0$0300a8c0@companna> 3rd Conference on Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenesis The 3rd Conference on Molecular Mechanisms of Metal Toxicity and Carcinogenesis will be held on September 12-15, 2004 at the NIOSH Morgantown, W.Va. facility. The meeting is cosponsored by NIOSH and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The conference will provide an opportunity to exchange most recent information on new and emerging advances concerning mechanisms of metal-induced toxicity and carcinogenesis; to formulate hypotheses regarding the ways in which certain metals may cause changes in the body at the molecular level that may predict or lead to cancer; and to propose novel therapeutic interventions, risk assessments and prevention strategies. Contact Xianglin Shi at xshi at cdc.gov for more information. From annmelamed at earthlink.net Thu Jul 1 14:41:13 2004 From: annmelamed at earthlink.net (Ann Melamed) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 14:41:13 -0700 Subject: [Healthwksp] two lead poisoning stories Message-ID: <007201c45fb4$21b72820$0300a8c0@companna> Joan Lowy from Scripps Howard News Service has just written two very important stories about lead poisoning. They're on the Scripps Howard News Service page now and accessible (top stories) via www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org From annmelamed at earthlink.net Tue Jul 6 10:45:00 2004 From: annmelamed at earthlink.net (Ann Melamed) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:45:00 -0700 Subject: [Healthwksp] Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) Message-ID: <007601c46380$fb6d3b20$0300a8c0@companna> Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) http://www.sare.org/ Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program has helped advance farming systems that are profitable, environmentally sound and good for communities through a nationwide research and education grants program. The program, part of USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, funds projects and conducts outreach designed to improve agricultural systems. From annmelamed at earthlink.net Tue Jul 6 10:47:21 2004 From: annmelamed at earthlink.net (Ann Melamed) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:47:21 -0700 Subject: [Healthwksp] Farm*A*Syst/Home*A*Syst Message-ID: <007a01c46381$49cfe970$0300a8c0@companna> Farm*A*Syst http://www.uwex.edu/farmasyst Farm*A*Syst is a partnership between government agencies and private business that enables you to prevent pollution on farms, ranches, and in homes using confidential environmental assessments. Farm*A*Syst can help you determine what risks -- whether from livestock waste disposal, pesticide management or petroleum storage -- could threaten your family's health and financial security. A system of step-by-step factsheets and worksheets helps you to identify the behaviors and practices that are creating those risks. Home*A*Syst http://www.uwex.edu/homeasyst Home*A*Syst begins with checklist questions to identify problem areas: -- How safe is your drinking water? -- Do you use and store household hazardous products safely? -- Is there lead-based paint in your home? When you find potential concerns, Home*A*Syst can help you develop an action plan to reduce the risks. By examining daily routines in and around the home, we can all learn to better protect our health and the quality of the environment. Home*A*Syst is a good place to start. From annmelamed at earthlink.net Tue Jul 20 08:45:11 2004 From: annmelamed at earthlink.net (Ann Melamed) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:45:11 -0700 Subject: [Healthwksp] Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence Message-ID: <006301c46e70$8af8cc10$0400a8c0@companna> Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence http://naaee.org/npeee/materials.php Published in November 1996 by NAAEE, Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence provides a set of recommendations for developing and selecting environmental education materials. These guidelines aim to help developers of activity guides, lesson plans, and other instructional materials produce high quality products, and to provide educators with a tool to evaluate the wide array of available environmental education materials. Developed through a process of critique and consensus, the Guidelines are grounded in a common understanding of effective environmental education. Over 1,000 practitioners and scholars in the field (e.g., classroom teachers, education administrators, environmental scientists, curriculum developers) participated in the review and development of this document. A companion publication, Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence - The Workbook is also available on line to help educators apply The Materials Guidelines: http://www.naaee.org/~npeee/Workbook/ From annmelamed at earthlink.net Tue Jul 20 08:47:48 2004 From: annmelamed at earthlink.net (Ann Melamed) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:47:48 -0700 Subject: [Healthwksp] Youth Education Message-ID: <006d01c46e70$e8462480$0400a8c0@companna> Youth Education http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/toc.cfm?hub=804&subsec=7&nav=7 The P2RX Youth Education Hub is a basic information guide with links to on-line resources. Each section references some "essential links" and the search (provided at left) can help you find links dealing with a particular issue. The sections in this hub are: Where to go for Help - Includes links to curriculum sources, grants, and "Ask an Expert" sites. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=5 Background and Overview - Defines the relationship between pollution prevention, environmental education, and environmental literacy and why it is important. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=10 Teaching Strategies - Describes methodologies for environmental education and how it affects creative thinking and behavior change. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=11 P2 Instructional Materials - Links to on-line curricula and activities with pollution prevention themes; labeled for age appropriateness. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=12 Reference Library - Provides criteria for choosing materials and links to background information on various environmental topics; for teacher program development or for student research. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=13 Acknowledgements - Lists authors and contributors for this hub. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=14 Complete List of Links - Lists all resources cataloged in this hub. If you know of resources relating to this topic, please let us know. We will review all suggestions and include them in the hub if they provide non-biased information not currently covered. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/bibliography.cfm?hub=804&subsec=7&nav=100 From annmelamed at earthlink.net Tue Jul 20 08:49:25 2004 From: annmelamed at earthlink.net (Ann Melamed) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 08:49:25 -0700 Subject: [Healthwksp] National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) Message-ID: <007801c46e71$22032dd0$0400a8c0@companna> National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) http://www.neetf.org Chartered by Congress in 1990, The National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) is a private non-profit organization dedicated to advancing environmental education in its many forms. Since it was established, the Foundation has become a leader in the development of new policies, grant-making approaches, and direct programming to advance environmental literacy in America. We link environmental education (EE) to many of society's core goals such as: better health, improved education, environmentally sound and profitable business, and volunteerism in local communities. Each of our programs also focuses on the needs of under-resourced people in American society. From mogk at montana.edu Thu Jul 29 13:15:38 2004 From: mogk at montana.edu (David Mogk) Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:15:38 -0600 Subject: [Healthwksp] New GSA Division proposed on Geomedicine Message-ID: <41095AEA.8090409@montana.edu> Hi Folks: GSA is proposing a new Geomedicine Division. As noted below, they need at least 100 members to indicate their interest, and there will be an organizational meeting at the Fall Meeting. So, please show your support and send GSA an affirmative note that you are indeed interested. Best to all, hope you're having a great summer, (and this would be a great time for you to contribute a few more URL resources or post an instructional activity before the fall academic term starts!). Cheers, Dave M. Your Support Needed for New GSA Geomedicine Division The term "geomedicine," first used in the mid-1900s, is now defined as the influence of geofactors on causes and distribution of compromised health in both modern and ancient humans and animals. Growing concern about health problems linked to burgeoning effects of geofactors justifies the creation of a GSA Geomedicine Division. The proposed new GSA Division will be concerned with applications of medical geology, medical geography, environmental medicine, and other fields that address environmentally caused health problems. To form the Geomedicine Division, we need the support of 100 GSA members and approval by GSA Council. Please consult the Annual Meeting Program for time and location of our organizational meeting in Denver. You may belong to multiple GSA divisions, and your participation may be active or passive. Please send an e-mail of support to geomed at geosociety.org . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://serc.carleton.edu/pipermail/healthwksp/attachments/20040729/7087bc0c/attachment.html From sahai at geology.wisc.edu Fri Jul 30 13:31:37 2004 From: sahai at geology.wisc.edu (Nita Sahai) Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:31:37 -0500 Subject: [Healthwksp] CALL FOR PAPERS, ACS 2005 Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, We invite you to submit abstracts for our session "Bridging Concepts and Techniques in Molecular Biogeochemistry, Medical Mineralogy and Nanomaterials Synthesis" at the Spring 2005 ACS Meeting in sunny San Diego, CA. The aims of the session are to emphasize the common physico-chemical principles underlying organic interactions with minerals and fluids in many apparently unrelated biogeochemical and industrial phenomena, and to encourage cross-disciplinary exchange of concepts and methodologies, experimental and computational. Please see the attached pdf document for a complete description or visit the ACS OASYS web-site. Feel free to contact Jeff Greathous or myself if you have any questions. We look forward to a large and enthusiastic participation! Thanks, Nita Sahai and Jeff Greathouse -- Assistant Professor Dept. Geology & Geophysics, Rm 463 Phone 608-262-4972 University of Wisconsin-Madison Fax 608-262-0693 Madison, WI 53706-1692 USA E-mail sahai at geology.wisc.edu http://www.geology.wisc.edu/people/faculty.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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These guidelines aim to help developers of activity guides, lesson plans, and other instructional materials produce high quality products, and to provide educators with a tool to evaluate the wide array of available environmental education materials. Developed through a process of critique and consensus, the Guidelines are grounded in a common understanding of effective environmental education. Over 1,000 practitioners and scholars in the field (e.g., classroom teachers, education administrators, environmental scientists, curriculum developers) participated in the review and development of this document. A companion publication, Environmental Education Materials: Guidelines for Excellence - The Workbook is also available on line to help educators apply The Materials Guidelines: http://www.naaee.org/~npeee/Workbook/ From annmelamed at earthlink.net Tue Jul 20 08:50:01 2004 From: annmelamed at earthlink.net (Ann Melamed) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:50:01 -0000 Subject: [Healthwksp] National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) Message-ID: <007801c46e71$22032dd0$0400a8c0@companna> National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) http://www.neetf.org Chartered by Congress in 1990, The National Environmental Education & Training Foundation (NEETF) is a private non-profit organization dedicated to advancing environmental education in its many forms. Since it was established, the Foundation has become a leader in the development of new policies, grant-making approaches, and direct programming to advance environmental literacy in America. We link environmental education (EE) to many of society's core goals such as: better health, improved education, environmentally sound and profitable business, and volunteerism in local communities. Each of our programs also focuses on the needs of under-resourced people in American society. From annmelamed at earthlink.net Tue Jul 20 08:48:24 2004 From: annmelamed at earthlink.net (Ann Melamed) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 15:48:24 -0000 Subject: [Healthwksp] Youth Education Message-ID: <006d01c46e70$e8462480$0400a8c0@companna> Youth Education http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/toc.cfm?hub=804&subsec=7&nav=7 The P2RX Youth Education Hub is a basic information guide with links to on-line resources. Each section references some "essential links" and the search (provided at left) can help you find links dealing with a particular issue. The sections in this hub are: Where to go for Help - Includes links to curriculum sources, grants, and "Ask an Expert" sites. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=5 Background and Overview - Defines the relationship between pollution prevention, environmental education, and environmental literacy and why it is important. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=10 Teaching Strategies - Describes methodologies for environmental education and how it affects creative thinking and behavior change. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=11 P2 Instructional Materials - Links to on-line curricula and activities with pollution prevention themes; labeled for age appropriateness. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=12 Reference Library - Provides criteria for choosing materials and links to background information on various environmental topics; for teacher program development or for student research. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=13 Acknowledgements - Lists authors and contributors for this hub. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/nav.cfm?hub=804&subsec=14 Complete List of Links - Lists all resources cataloged in this hub. If you know of resources relating to this topic, please let us know. We will review all suggestions and include them in the hub if they provide non-biased information not currently covered. http://peakstoprairies.org/topichub/bibliography.cfm?hub=804&subsec=7&nav=100