Arsenic Treated Wood
Arts and Crafts Health Hazards
Children's Environmental Health
Community Health
Drinking Water
Energy
Environmental Justice
General
Grants/Funding
Great Lakes
Influencing Policy
Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
Nuclear
Occupational Health
Risk Assessment and Communication
Schools
Sustainability and Sprawl
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://www.ewg.org/node/22796>

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 Chromated Copper Arsenate Information
<http://www.epa.gov/oppad001/reregistration/cca/>

Healthy Building Network: Arsenic Wood: Hazards and Alternatives
<http://www.healthybuilding.net/arsenic/hbn_wood_factsheet.html>

Arts and Crafts Health Hazards
Arts, Crafts and Theatre Safety
<http://www.artscraftstheatersafety.org/>

Health Hazards in the Arts: Information for Artists, Craftspeople, and Photographers
<http://wally.rit.edu/pubs/guides/healthhaz.html>

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

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

Birth Defect Research for Children, Inc.
<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- National Toxicology Program
<http://cerhr.niehs.nih.gov/>

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://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/whatwe_tf_proj.htm#1>
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 Resources, Environmental Health Perspectives, NIEHS
<http://www.ehponline.org/children/resources.html>

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

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

Healthly Child Healthy World
<http://healthychild.org/main/>

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

Environmental Health- The PEW Charitable Trusts
<http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_detail.aspx?id=558>

Environment and Health- Physicians for Social Responsibility
<http://www.envirohealthaction.org/>

EPA- Children's Health Protection
<http://yosemite.epa.gov/ochp/ochpweb.nsf/content/homepage.htm>

Growing Up Toxic: Chemical Exposures and Increases in Developmental Disease

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

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

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

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 from Environmental Risks
<http://www.nrdc.org/health/kids/g5worst.asp>

National Safety Council- Children's Environmental Health Program
<http://www.nsc.org/ehc/chldhlth.html>

North America Commission for Environmental Cooperation
<http://www.cec.org/home/index.cfm?varlan=english>
including Children's Health and Environmental Indicators Report

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

Preventing Harm- A Research and Action Center on Children and the Environment
<http://www.preventingharm.org/>

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Recalls and Alerts
<http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prerel.html>

World Health Organization - Inheriting the Earth: 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/>

Community Health Status Indicators Project
<http://www.phf.org/research.htm#data>
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, Specials Diseases and Public Health- Lecture by Topic

<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.nesc.wvu.edu/training.cfm>

Pollution in Your Community- Scorecard: The Pollution Informaiton Site
<http://www.scorecard.org/>

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

Acute Pulmonary Hemorrage/Hemosiderosis Among Infants- Cleveland
<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00033843.htm>

Pulmonary Hemmorhage/Hemosiderosis Among Infants- Cleveland, Ohio
<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00045680.htm>

Investigation of Acute Idiopathic Pulmonary hemorrhage Among Infants- Massachucets
<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5335a4.htm>

Acute Idiopathic Pulmonary Hemorrhage Among Infants
<http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5302a1.htm>

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Drinking Water

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

Environment and Health- Physicians for Social Responsibility
<http://www.envirohealthaction.org/>

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

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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 - Clean Energy

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

Green Energy Ohio

<http://www.greenenergyohio.org/page.cfm?pageID=3>

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

Northeast Midwest Institute- Energy

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

Public Citizen Energy Program
<http://www.citizen.org/cmep/>

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

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

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Environmental Justice

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

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>

Interreligious EcoJustice Network
<http://www.irejn.org/>

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- EPA
<http://www.epa.gov/Compliance/environmentaljustice/nejac/>

Poverty and Race Research Action Council

<http://prrac.org/>

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

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- 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://tools.niehs.nih.gov/wetp/>
Questions and answers on a variety of environmental health topics from a private contractor for NIEHS.

Environmental Health Perspectives - 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>

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

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

Grants and Debarment- EPA
<http://www.epa.gov/ogd/>

Grants and Fellowship Information- EPA
<http://www.epa.gov/epahome/grants.htm>

Software for Environmental Awareness- EPA
<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
Alliance for the Great Lakes
<http://www.greatlakes.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=243&srcid=-2>

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

American Public Health Association - Advocacy
<http://www.apha.org/advocacy/>

Be Safe- Coordinated by the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice

<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, PR Watch
<http://www.prwatch.org/>

Corp Watch- Holding Corporations Accountable
<http://www.corpwatch.org/>

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

Environment and Health- Physicians for Social Responsibilty
<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- The Voter's Self Defense Mechanism
<http://www.vote-smart.org>

Public Campaign- Clean Money Clean Elections
<http://www.publicampaign.org/>

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

Public Justice- America's Public Interest Law Firm
<http://www.tlpj.org>

Tom Paine: Common Sense- The best progressive insight and action. All day.
<http://www.tompaine.com>

Save Our Environment- A National Coalition for the Environment
<http://www.saveourenvironment.org>

Union of Concerned Scientists
<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 Health Association of Nova Scotia
<http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/>

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/>

Ohio Network for the Chemically Injured
<http://www.ohionetwork.org/site.html>
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
<http://www.hazards.org/>

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

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

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

Occupational & Environmental Medicine Listserve
<http://www.ohionetwork.org/site.html>

Occupational Health & Environmental Medicine Resources
<http://dukeoccmed.mc.duke.edu/>

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)- US Department of Labor
<http://www.osha.gov>

Society for Occupational and Environmental Health (SOEH)

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

United Auto Workers Occupational 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) - A Primer on Health Risk Communication
<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://oehha.ca.gov/>

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

Risk World- Covering Risk News and Views
<http://www.riskworld.com/>

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

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Schools

Asthma Friendly Schools
<http://asthmafriendlyschools.org.au/home/index.php>

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

Center for Health, Environment and Justice

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

EPA - Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Tools for Schools Program
<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.

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

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

Free Breather: Asthma Facts
<http://www.freebreather.com/asthma/asthma_facts.aspx>

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

Integrated Pest Management for Your School or Facility
<http://schoolipm.ifas.ufl.edu/>

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

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Sustainability and Sprawl

American Public Information on the Environment (American P.I.E)
<http://www.americanpie.org/>

Center for the Built Environment
<http://www.cbe.berkeley.edu/>

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

Center for Renewable Energy Systems Technology (CREST)
<http://www.lboro.ac.uk/crest/links.html>

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

Environment and Agriculture- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
<http://www.iatp.org/enviroag/>

Environment and Health- Physicians for Social Responsibility
<http://www.envirohealthaction.org/>

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- Creating Energy Smart Communities
<http://www.smartcommunities.ncat.org/>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Toxic Chemicals

Breast Cancer Fund - The State of the Evidence 2008: The Connection Between Breast Cancer and the Environment?
<http://www.breastcancerfund.org/site/pp.asp?c=kwKXLdPaE&b=206137>

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/>

E-hormone: Your gatewat to the Environmet and Hormones
<http://e.hormone.tulane.edu/>

Environment and Health- Physicians for Social Responsibility
<http://www.envirohealthaction.org/>

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

Environmental Working Group
<http://www.ewg.org/>

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

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

Greenpeace - Eliminate Toxic Chemicals
<http://www.greenpeace.org/~toxics/>

Household Products Guide- National Institute of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services

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

Health and safety information on household products

International POPs Elimination Network
<http://www.ipen.org/>
POPs are persistent organic pollutants.

Late Lessons from Early Warnings: The Precautionary Principle 1896-2000- European Environmental Agency
<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 - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
<http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/>

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

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

Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors
<http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/>

TOXMAP-Environmental Health E-Maps
<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.

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

World Health Organization- International Programme on Chemical Safety
<http://www.who.int/pcs/training_material/hazardous_chemicals/cover_pages.htm>

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