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Updated August 31, 2010 |  | Teleconference/Webcast: School Health Policies and Program Study 2006: Healthy Physical School Environment
Tuesday August 31, 2010
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Environmental Health Initiative
As society continues to focus on the importance of academic achievement, the physical environment of schools should be addressed as one of the critical factors that influence academic outcomes. The School Health Policies and Programs Study (SHPPS) is a national survey periodically conducted to assess school health policies and programs at the state, district, school and classroom levels. SHPPS 2006 provides a comprehensive look at the extent to which schools have health-promoting physical school environment policies and programs. This presentation will provide an overview of SHPPS and findings for topics such as inspection of school physical facilities; school plans for dealing with mold and moisture-related issues; indoor air-quality management; pest management procedures; purchase of low-emitting products; testing of drinking water; and the use, labeling, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials. This is a rescheduling of a teleconference from mid July.
Price: free
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Contact: Laura Abulafia, Laura@aaidd.org
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| Teleconference/Webcast: The Secrets to Longevity
Tuesday August 31, 2010
8:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: 4 Health Inc., Aspire Magazine, Inspired Living Publishing, Women's Wisdom
Part of a series on women's health and wellness, this call will feature David Wolfe, considered one of the world's top authorities on natural health, beauty nutrition, herbalism, chocolate and organic superfoods. Did you know that longevity and vitality are easy to achieve? During the interview with David Wolfe, you will learn that your health does not need to fall apart as you age. You will gain insight into the superfoods that can improve your health and you will learn the truth about calcium (a real concern for most women).
Price: free
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 | Training/Workshop: Environmental Negotiations for Scientists and Resource Managers
Tuesday and Wednesday, August 31 - September 1, 2010
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sacramento, California
at the Radisson Hotel-Sacramento, 500 Leisure Lane
Sponsor: EOS Alliance
This workshop provides attendees with improved skills for effective participation in environmental negotiations. Environmental negotiations are often more complex due to their technical and regulatory intricacy, interest from many parties, and the emotional nature of parties involved. This workshop presents basic negotiation concepts, specific environmental applications, and principled (ethical) negotiation approaches for building trust and relationships. Role-playing provides an interactive method of reinforcing negotiation principles and will be used to teach participants how to recognize commonly encountered tactics while producing responses. Participants will gain a better understanding of negotiation principles, as well as approaches and practices for improving outcomes. In addition, the skills taught in this class will help participants increase their confidence and reduce the anxiety they feel while working to achieve these outcomes. Course materials will provide useful tools for future negotiations.
Price: $795 or $695 for employees of Native American tribes, government agencies, and nonprofits; students; and NAEP members
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Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 425-270-3274
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Health for the Whole Family
Thursday September 2, 2010
8:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: 4 Health Inc., Aspire Magazine, Inspired Living Publishing, Women's Wisdom
Part of a series on women's health and wellness, this call will feature Dr. Bill Sears, associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of California, Irvine and the author of over 30 books. As women, we spend a lot of time worried about the health of our family. For moms, having our kids eat well, for example, can be a struggle. Dr. Sears is going to share with us just how lifestyle, exercise, attitude and nutrition can affect our health and the health of our children.
Price: free
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 | Conference/Seminar: 11th World Congress on Environmental Health
Sunday through Friday, September 5 - 10, 2010
Vancouver, Canada
at the Westin Bayshore
Sponsor: The International Federation of Environmental Health and the Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors
The convference theme, "Global Health Protection From Sea to Sky", provides a broad platform from which we will explore universal challenges to environmental health in an era of increasing globalization. Keeping true to our motto "Educate, Innovate, Advocate", attendees will be provided with up-to-date information on the latest innovations and strategies in health protection by focusing on core competencies in a number of thematic areas.
Price: see the registration form
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Spiritual Healing
Tuesday September 7, 2010
8:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: 4 Health Inc., Aspire Magazine, Inspired Living Publishing, Women's Wisdom
Part of a series on women's health and wellness, this call will feature Dr. Laurel Clark, the president of the School of Metaphysics, an ordained minister in the Interfaith Church of Metaphysics and the author of several books. Is spirituality something you think about but haven't had time to explore? Are you often concerned about where your life is headed and how to find greater meaning and purpose in the things you do every day? Laurel Clark is going share with you how to bring greater peace and serenity to your life. She will explain how you can have greater appreciation for who you are, how to learn the lessons that life brings to you, and how to have a deeper sense of security in knowing that you are fulfilling your spiritual destiny.
Price: free
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| Conference/Seminar: IFEH 11th World Congress on Environmental Health
Friday September 10, 2010
Vancouver, British Columbia Canada
Sponsor: International Federation of Environmental Health
The theme "Global Health Protection from Sea to Sky" provides a broad platform from which we will explore universal challenges to environmental health in an era of increasing globalization.
Price: unknown
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 | Lecture: 2010 Seminar Series: A Conversation about Sustainable Design
Tuesday September 14, 2010
Reception 5:30 - 6:30; Program 6:30 - 8:30; Post Seminar Networking 8:30 - 9:00
Seattle, Washington
Downstairs at Town Hall, Eighth and Seneca
Sponsor: Sustainable Path Foundation
Design plays a pivotal role in the sustainability of our buildings, communities and products, as well as in the systems we use to handle transportation, energy and water. Can we change our perspective on the built environment from "projects that are created and finished" to a more sustainable one of "systems that perform over time"? What social factors should be considered when creating built solutions? Join us as Ash Awad, vice president of Energy and Facility Services at McKinstry and Daniel Friedman, dean of the College of Built Environments at the University of Washington explore these and other considerations of sustainable design and its impact on our future.
Price: $10 in advance or $15 at the door
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Contact: 206-443-8464 or info@sustainablepath.org
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| Teleconference/Webcast: I am Being Exposed to WHAT?
Tuesday September 14, 2010
8:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: 4 Health Inc., Aspire Magazine, Inspired Living Publishing, Women's Wisdom
Part of a series on women's health and wellness, this call will feature Alexandra Scranton, the director of science and research at Women's Voices for the Earth. We buy things in the store assuming that what we buy has been evaluated for safety first. Unfortunately, that just isn't the case. As a woman, you are exposed to toxic chemicals simply by cleaning your home and using cosmetics. Alexandra will help you identify actions you can take to avoid jeopardizing your health.
Price: free
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health and the Promise of Green Chemistry: A Discussion with Author Elizabeth Grossman
Wednesday September 15, 2010
9:00 a.m. Alaska / 10:00 a.m. Pacific / 1:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: Collaborative on Health and the Environment – Alaska
Many dangerous chemicals from chemical manufacturing facilities and industrial agriculture operations around the world end up in the Arctic and stay there. Originating in Asia and southern latitudes, persistent organic pollutants (POPs) hitchhike on wind and ocean currents and accumulate in the fish, wildlife and people who call the far north home. Among those who bear a disproportionate burden of global contaminants are Arctic indigenous peoples who depend on berries, greens, fish and marine mammals for subsistence. In addition to being exposed to pollutants from distant sources, the people of Alaska's St. Lawrence Island are also exposed to contamination from abandoned military sites. Author Elizabeth Grossman highlights the ongoing struggle for environmental health and justice of the St. Lawrence Island Yupik people in her award-winning book Chasing Molecules: Poisonous Products, Human Health and the Promise of Green Chemistry. With Chasing Molecules, Grossman reveals that we can do better; that we can make materials that we have come to rely on with chemicals that have been tested to be safe and are in fact "benign by design." In a radical departure from how synthetic chemistry has been practiced, Grossman suggests that green chemistry should be used to create new materials for use in everything from sippy cups to carpets.
Price: free
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Contact: Alaska Community Action on Toxics, 907-222-7714 or diana@akaction.org
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| Teleconference/Webcast: Superbugs, Super Problems: Agricultural Antibiotics and Emerging Infections
Thursday September 16, 2010
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Central time
Sponsor: Healthy Food Action and The IATP Food & Society Fellows and cosponsored by the Infectious Diseases Society of America
The new scientific consensus is that routine, unnecessary use of antibiotics in livestock and poultry contributes significantly to a costly epidemic of antibiotic resistance. One result is the emergence of new infections with farm links, including salmonella resistant to multiple drugs (including the critical cephalosporins), resistant E. coli, and MRSA. We are joined by three presenters who recently testified before Congress on this issue: infectious disease and noted E. coli expert Dr. James Johnson; Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug: The Fatal Menace of MRSA; and Dr. Gail Hansen, offering a veterinarian's perspective on the need for new federal policy and why health professionals ought to weigh in.
Price: free
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| Training/Workshop: Improving Infrastructure Design and Construction: Evaluting, Planning, and Implementing for Sustainability and Local Context
Friday October 1, 2010
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Issaquah, Washington
at EOS Alliance Headquarters, 230 NE Juniper Street Suite 201
Sponsor: EOS Alliance
This course focuses on the fundamental elements of designing projects that benefit the local community and environment throughout the life cycle of the facility. Infrastructure shapes the way people live and behave, while also guiding local ecosystems in operation and evolution. This influence follows every design through its construction, use, maintenance and deconstruction, and extends beyond the core utilities associated with transportation, water and energy projects. This course will take a NON-REGULATORY approach to designing and creating a higher quality product. Participants will learn how to identify areas within and around the project footprint for economic, cultural, and environmental concerns or opportunities. Furthermore, this information will be applied to creating a realistic game plan that enhances project outcomes by appropriately addressing these problems and possibilities.
Price: $250/$195 for employees of Native American tribes, government agencies, and nonprofits; students; and NAEP, NWAEP, and NEBC members
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Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 425-270-3274
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| Conference/Seminar: 2010 Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention(P2) Regional Roundtable
Tuesday and Wednesday, October 5 - 6, 2010
Poulsbo, Washington
at the Clearwater Casino Resort
Sponsor: Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Resource Center
Session topics include toxics reduction, green chemistry, carbon emissions reduction, and more. Tours of Kitsap Peninsula businesses and locations demonstrating toxics reduction and/or carbon reduction efforts in action are also available.
Price: see the website
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Contact: Paula Del Giudice, PPRC, 206-352-2050 or pdelgiudice@pprc.org
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| Training/Workshop: Mercury Effects on Ecosystems and Human Health
Wednesday and Thursday, October 6 - 7, 2010
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Boise, Idaho
at the Red Lion – Downtown Boise, 1800 W. Fairview Avenue
Sponsor: EOS Alliance
Both organic and elemental mercury create a wide spectrum of ecological and human health concerns. Statewide advisories for mercury levels in fish exist in dozens of states across the United States. Mercury spills cost public and private entities millions of dollars a year in cleanup and health care costs. This course addresses concerns mercury causes by providing participants with a foundation in the science of environmental mercury and presents solutions for mitigating the impacts of this ubiquitous contaminant.
Price: Early bird rate $450 until August 13, 2010, or $350 for employees of Native American tribes, government agencies, nonprofits, students, and NAEP, NEBC, NWAEP members
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Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 425-270-3274 or info@nwetc.org
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| Teleconference/Webcast: CHE Café Call: Living Downstream: A Conversation with Sandra Steingraber and Chanda Chevannes
Thursday October 14, 2010
11:00 a.m. Pacific / 2:00 p.m. Eastern time
Sponsor: Collaborative on Health and the Environment
The recently released documentary Living Downstream explores the impact of environmental toxics on human health. This feature-length film focuses on the work of Dr. Sandra Steingraber, ecologist, author and cancer survivor. Based on Dr. Steingraber's 1997 book of the same name, Living Downstream follows Sandra over the course of one pivotal year as she works to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links, and as she finds herself in a period of medical uncertainty about whether her cancer has recurred.
Price: free
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Contact: CHE, info@healthandenvironment.org
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| Training/Workshop: Model Toxics Control Act 101 Workshop
Wednesday October 27, 2010
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Richland, Washington
at the Hampton Inn - Richland, 486 Bradley Boulevard
Sponsor: EOS Alliance
This course is intended for environmental consultants, federal, state and local government staff and other professionals seeking an improved understanding of the Model Toxics Control Act. The objective of this one-day workshop is to introduce Washington's Model Toxics Control Act (WAC 173-340). This workshop will provide an overview of the MTCA administrative requirements and associated cleanup standards. Participants will also learn the MTCA remedy selection process and public involvement requirements. Both instructors have a deep and thorough understanding of MTCA and will welcome questions at the end of each topic. This course can be followed by the two-day WAPOL-402: Establishing MTCA Cleanup Levels Workshop.
Price: $275/$225 for employees of Native American tribes, government agencies, and nonprofits; students; and NAEP, NEBC, NWAEP members
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Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 425-270-3274
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 | Request for Proposals: Roadmap Transformative Research Projects Program
Deadline: 5:00 p.m. local time (of the applicant institution/organization), Wednesday October 27, 2010
Sponsor: NIH Common Fund
The primary emphasis of the Roadmap Transformative Research Projects Program is on creative ideas—projects that have the potential to transform a field of science and to provide adequate support for the work—rather than creative individuals who have proven themselves to be innovative researchers and to provide them with funds to go in a new pioneering direction.
Award: The NIH common fund intends to commit up to $25 million; number of awards will depend on the size and scope of the most meritorious applications
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| Training/Workshop: The MTCA 101 Cleanup Levels Workshop
Thursday and Friday, October 28 - 29, 2010
8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Richland, Washington
at the Hampton Inn – Richland, 486 Bradley Boulevard
Sponsor: EOS Alliance
This course provides attendees with an in-depth understanding of the procedures for establishing cleanup levels and points of compliance under the Model Toxics Control Act (WAC 173-340). The course covers procedures for establishing cleanup levels using Methods A, B, and C for groundwater, surface water and soil, as well as an overview of recent rule revisions related to dioxins/furans, PCBs, and carcinogenic PAHs. Additionally, the terrestrial ecological evaluation process to soils at sites will be covered. Participants will benefit from an overview of Washington State Department of Ecology's three and four-phase partitioning models, as well as their use of leaching test methods for determining soil concentrations that are protective of groundwater. Attendees will also have an opportunity to walk through the process of establishing cleanup standards using case studies. Both instructors have a deep and thorough understanding of MTCA and will welcome questions at the end of each topic.
Price: $445 until August 6, with $345 reduced tuition available to employees of Native American tribes, government agencies, and nonprofits; students; and NAEP, NEBC, NWAEP membRers
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Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 425-270-3274
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| Request for Proposals: National Environmental Information Exchange Network Grant Program
Deadline: Friday November 5, 2010
Sponsor: US Environmental Protection Agency
Some awards may involve or relate to geospatial information. EPA, states, territories and tribes are working together to develop the Exchange Network (EN), a secure, Internet- and standards-based way to support electronic data reporting, sharing, and integration of both regulatory and non-regulatory environmental data. EN Partners exchanging data with each other or with EPA, should make the Exchange Network and the Agency's connection to it, the Central Data Exchange (CDX), the standard way they exchange data and should phase out any legacy methods they have been using. More information on the Exchange Network is available at www.exchangenetwork.net.
Award: The ward ceiling is $350,000.
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Contact: Ryan Humrighouse, 202-566-1680 or humrighouse.ryan@epa.gov
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| Training/Workshop: Fundamental Contaminant Chemistry
Monday November 29, 2010
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Portland, Oregon
at the Audubon Society of Portland, 5151 NW Cornell Road
Sponsor: EOS Alliance
This course provides participants with an overview/refresher of key chemistry concepts associated with environmental contamination and provides a foundation for understanding contaminant transport, fate, and remediation. This material is intended for environmental professionals who are not chemists and require a fundamental understanding of chemistry principles for their work. This course is recommended for all environmental professionals working with contaminated soil and water with minimal formal training in the subject. It is also recommended for project managers seeking a review of contaminant chemistry. This course includes a review of chemical naming rules (e.g., understanding what 1,1,1-TCA is) and how to use chemical names to predict molecular geometry and environmental behavior.
Price: $350 or $295 for employees of Native American tribes, government agencies, and nonprofits; students; and NAEP members; $300/$245 until September 10th
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Contact: Northwest Environmental Training Center, 425-270-3274 or info@nwetc.org
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| Request for Proposals: Mechanisms Underlying the Links between Psychosocial Stress, Aging, the Brain and the Body
Deadline: Saturday September 8, 2012
Sponsor: US Department of Health and Human Services
This FOA encourages multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research to elucidate the mechanistic links between psychosocial stress and health in aging, as well as how the aging process and age-related diseases affect the responses to psychosocial stressors. Generally, research should be focused on (1) aging and how neural mechanisms respond to psychosocial stress and affect other body systems; (2) characterizing the behavioral, psychological and social mechanisms and pathways involved in transducing psychosocial stressors into health outcomes; (3) how stressors modulate physiological process underlying lifespan, immune mechanisms, and metabolism; and (4) how psychosocial stress contributes to the development or progression of geriatric syndromes, chronic medical conditions, and disabilities in later life. Research is strongly encouraged that aims to identify appropriate targets for intervention, at any level of analysis, from societal to molecular. Research spanning multiple levels of analysis is particularly encouraged. Research focused on oxidative stress or on environmental or physical stressors of a non-psychosocial nature is not appropriate to this FOA.
Award: varies
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| Request for Proposals: Nutrition and Physical Activity Research to Promote Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Health
Deadline: Saturday September 8, 2012
Sponsor: US Department of Health and Human Services
This FOA encourages Research Project Grant (R01) applications that propose research on the roles of nutrition and physical activity in the development, prevention, and management of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) or pulmonary diseases. In particular, the FOA aims to (1) improve knowledge of the contribution of diet and physical activity to these conditions and how sleep influences these relationships, (2) increase the evidence base for refining public health recommendations and clinical guidelines regarding these lifestyle behaviors, and (3) develop and test strategies to improve the adoption of these recommendations.
Award: varies
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| Request for Proposals: Diet, Epigenetic Events, and Cancer Prevention
Deadline: Saturday September 8, 2012
Sponsor: US Department of Health and Human Services
The aim of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA), issued by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), and the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is to promote clinical and preclinical research to determine how diet and dietary factors, including dietary supplements, impact DNA methylation, histone posttranslational modification, noncoding RNA, and other epigenetic processes involved in cancer prevention and development. Another important aim of this FOA is to encourage collaborations between nutrition and epigenetic experts to study bioactive food components with cancer-preventive properties and to examine key epigenetic events in cancer processes (e.g., carcinogen metabolism, cell division, differentiation, and apoptosis) in order to begin to establish linkages between epigenetics, methylation patterns, and tumor incidences/behaviors.
Award: varies
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| Request for Proposals: Health Impact Assessment Demonstration Projects
Deadline: There is no deadline to submit a letter of interest. The Health Impact Project will accept applications on a rolling basis until all grant funds are committed.
Sponsor: The Health Impact Project
Health Impact Assessments (HIAs) bring together relevant public input, available data and a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to anticipate the potential health consequences of a proposed policy, program or project. The goal of the CFP and subsequent HIAs is to improve health, demonstrate the effectiveness of HIAs and promote their incorporation into local, state, tribal, and federal decisionmaking. Government agencies, educational institutions and nonprofit organizations are encouraged to apply.
Award: $25,000 to $150,000
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