Generation Green
is a participating member of two national coalition organizations
advocating for increased protections for children: The
Partnership for Children's Health and The Child Proofing Our
Communities Campaign. Generation Green also has joined other
organizations in support of particular policy statements relating to
children's health. (See list of sign-on
campaigns below)
The Partnership for Children’s Health and the Environment (www.partnersforchildren.org/Pages/gp.html)
is a growing international coalition with
almost eighty members representing government, academic, medical and community-based
organizations committed to building a strong, sustainable and collaborative movement to protect current and future generations
from harmful environmental exposures.
The Partnership coalesced following the Children’s Environmental Health
Summit held in September 1999. The Summit, co-convened by the Children’s Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) and the Institute for
Children’s Environmental Health (ICEH), was an invitational gathering for
key leaders in government, academic and community-based organizations
committed to working on children's environmental health concerns. The
intention of this meeting was to map the growing field of children’s
environmental health and to determine how we might more effectively
communicate, strategize and collaborate across sectors in order to
catalyze a strong and sustaining children’s environmental health movement.
The first joint action of the Partnership was to draft and adopt the
Guiding Principles for Children's Environmental Health.
The Child Proofing Our Communities Campaign, (www.childproofing.org
)is coordinated by the Center
for Health, Environment, & Justice. CHEJ a national environmental organization
based in Falls Church, Virginia. Lois Marie Gibbs, the community leader who lead
the effort to obtain relocation of 900 families from the leaking dumpsite called Love
Canal and established CHEJ in 1981. Our philosophy is to teach and empower by
helping grassroots groups and individuals to build upon their strengths. Through
our organizing, leadership development, research and technical assistance, we
empower individuals with skills and information to make sound judgments and
become apart of the political decision making process to protect health and our
natural environment
Sign
On Letters:
Generation
Green has signed on to the following statements, in collaboration
with other organizations.
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Topic
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Date
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Convening
Organization
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Brief
Descriptions
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Chemical Threat Awareness
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Oct 2004
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Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
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Contacted by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee asking for support regarding appropriations language on EPA (VA/HUD/Independent Agencies)
for a National Academy of Sciences study of chemical ignorance and resulting costs to health and industry.. For more information, use this link: view letter.
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Pesticides and Kids
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Oct 2004
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Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children (SCEC)
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Concern about the partnership between ChemLawn and US Youth Soccer,
and urging US Youth Soccer not to renew this partnership. For more information, use these links: view letter or view press release.
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CCA-treated Wood
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March 2002
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Healthy
Buildings Network
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Comment
on EPA ruling on CCA treated wood.
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Healthy
Schools
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Feb 2002
|
Healthy
Schools Network
|
Child
Environmental Health at School: Unhealthy Schools
ESEA's Healthy and High Performance Schools' research and
information
programs; Health & Safety Renovation Grants
|
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Lead
Exposure
|
Feb 2002
|
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Bush
support for lead elimination by 2010
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Lead
Exposure
|
Oct 2001
|
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Community
Environmental Health Resource Center (CEHRC), which would
work with communities to protect children at the greatest
risk for lead poisoning. While the Senate earmarked
funds for various lead hazard reduction activities it did
not specify CEHRC. The House bill supported for CEHRC.
|
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Healthy
Schools
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July 2001
|
Healthy
Schools Network
|
Support
for the Healthy and High Performance School Bill
|
|
General
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July 2001
|
Children’s
Environmental Health Network
|
Bush’s
performance on children’s environmental health
|
|
School
and Pesticides
|
June 2001
|
Beyond
Pesticides
|
Support
the School Environmental Projection Act
|
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International
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June 2001
|
National
Heritage Institute
|
International
children’s environmental health issues
|
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CCA
treated wood
|
May 2001
|
Healthy
Building Network
|
CPSP
petition urging the banning of CCA treated wood in play
equipment.
|
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Evaluation
of Chemicals
|
April 2001
|
National
Environmental Trust
|
Proposed
Criteria for Selecting New Environmental Chemicals or
Categories of Chemicals for Analytic Development and for
Inclusion in Future Releases of the National Report on Human
Exposure to Environmental Chemicals,
|
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EPA’s
office of Children’s Health
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April 2001
|
Healthy
Schools Network
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Urge
Whitman to keep office of children’s health
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