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Support important green schools and healthy kids by signing a petition, sending an email, or making a call to a decision maker about crucial issues like toxics, energy, and other issues relating to schools and sustainability.
Speak Up for Clean Air!
We received this important Action Alert from MomsRising and hope you'll take action and post the link on your Facebook page. On March 19th MomsRising will host an Internet radio discussion with Lisa Jackson, the first African-American to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to discuss how families across the country can work together for clean air. MomsRising wants you to share your thoughts with Administrator Jackson.
Tell Your Senators To Support Environmental Education
It's a first! The National Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) reauthorization bill now working its way through Congress contains first-ever provisions to support and fund environmental education (EE). The legislation is likely to go the Senate floor in the coming weeks. Contact your senators to support EE!
NAAEE Seeks VOLUNTEERS for 2012 Conference in Oakland
AEOE is tasked with organizing hundreds of volunteers to support dozens of committees to plan "Gaining Perspective: Seeing EE Through Different Lenses", NAAEE's 41st Annual Conference in
Oakland, CA, October 10-13, 2012. They need your help!
Improving School Food: Do It Now or Pay the Price Later
On May 30, the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee voted to cripple the nation’s budding effort to do something about the woeful quality of school food and make America’s kids healthier.
ACTION ALERT: Support the Healthy Schools Act of 2011
According to the CDC, children between the ages of 6 and 11 have the highest levels of pesticides in their bodies when compared to any other age category. The Healthy Schools Act of 2011 will help protect children from exposure to pesticides, and we need your letter of support by April 15th.
ACTION ALERT: Get Toxic BPA Out of Children's Food Products
Join the Breast Cancer Fund and many others: Send an email telling the American Chemical Council (ACC) to stop blocking passage of legislation that would get toxic BPA out of children's food products.
ACTION ALERT: Say No to Biased Energy Education
Sign the petition to Scholastic, Inc's CEO and executives to tell them you are concerned about their partnership with the US Chamber of Commerce to distribute biased energy information to middle schoolers.
Safe Cosmetics Act of 2010
Should you really have to worry about the presence of harmful chemicals in your child's shampoo? Or about what's in your lipstick that might make you sick? Ask your representatives to pass legislation to eliminate dangerous chemicals from the personal products people use on their bodies every day.
Kid Safe Chemicals Act
There may be as many as 80,000 untested or inadequately tested chemicals circulating on the market, meaning we are all exposed to potentially toxic chemicals in our daily life -- and kids are most vulnerable. That's why the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA) so desperately needs updating.