Movie premiere to promote safe and healthy personal care products
Posted on Jul 12, 2010
Have you ever wondered what is really in your cosmetics and personal
care products? Or whether all those ingredients that you can barely
pronounce are actually safe? And just what is Sodium Laureth Sulfate,
anyway?
If you have questions like these, then come to the Boston premiere screening of The Story of Cosmetics, a seven minute video that reveals the environmental health and social consequences of harmful chemicals in everyday products like shampoo, bubble bath, makeup and cologne. View the teaser here.
Join us for The Story of Cosmetics video launch party! RSVP Here
Thursday, July 22nd 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave, Lower level, Boston, MA 02111
Webinar with the author of Slow Death by Rubber Duck
Posted on Mar 30, 2010
Please join us for a virtual book club Webinar, featuring the “fascinating and frightening,” “cheeky” and “hard-hitting” new book, Slow Death By Rubber Duck. It's on Tuesday, April 6 at 5 p.m. Pacific/8 p.m. Eastern. Rick Smith, author and Executive Director of
Environmental Defence Canada, will read from Slow Death By
Rubber Duck, and we’ll discuss toxic chemicals found in products as
common as hand soap and what you can do to protect your family and the
planet.
Studies show that harmful toxic chemicals are common in household items, including rubber ducks and bubble bath, and that many of these chemicals are also found inside of our bodies. Over a four-day period, Slow Death By Rubber Duck authors Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie used every day household products suspected of causing harm to our ecosystem and to human health. By revealing the pollution load in their bodies before and after the experiment, Rick and Bruce tell a unique inside story of common toxins and body burden.
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TURA 20th Anniversary Facility Leaders Tour
Posted on Mar 17, 2010 It's the 20th Anniversary of the Toxics Use Reduction Act (TURA)! For the past two decades, the Toxics Use Reduction Institute (TURI) has worked with companies in Massachusetts to reduce their use of toxic chemicals and their toxic waste. They've been an incredible resource for our legislative efforts. Since TURA was enacted in 1989, it has managed to reduce toxic chemical use in Massachusetts by 41%.
Now TURI is celebrating its 20th anniversary by recognizing companies across Massachusetts who are "TURA 20th Anniversary Leaders" and conducting site tours at selected facilities during March and April.
Read more...Join the Million Baby Crawl!
Posted on Nov 11, 2009 Seventh Generation, a company known for a focus on safe, non-toxic cleaning products, is sponsoring the Million Baby Crawl to to demand toxic chemical policy reform from Congress.
The Crawl consists of a virtual baby march. On the site, you can create a baby avatar to add to the march as fun way to show your support for a new law to protect us from health-harming chemicals.
Join us at the Crawl to Action:
Where: Burlington Mall - Kids Play Area, 75 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington, MA
When: Wednesday, November 18th from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM
What: Support toxic chemical policy reform, learn more about safe household products, enjoy family-friendly live entertainment and children's interactive activities, and receive free Seventh Generation products.
Wellesley: personal care products and chemicals seminar
Posted on Oct 30, 2009In Europe, over 1100 chemicals are banned from cosmetics. In the United States, only 10 are. Beauty may cost more than you think.
That's why the Wellesley Cancer Prevention Project, an Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow member, is hosting a seminar on Personal Care Products, Chemicals, and Your Health.
When: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Where: The Wakelin Room at the Wellesley Public Library, 530 Washington St., Wellesley, MA
On any given day, both males and females may use as many as 25 different cosmetics and personal care products (such as shampoo, toothpaste and deodorant) containing more than 200 different chemical compounds. The chemicals in any one consumer product alone are unlikely to cause harm. But unfortunately, we are repeatedly exposed to chemicals from many different sources on a daily basis, including cosmetics and personal care products.
Read more...Toxic Chemicals and Woman’s Health: What is the Nurse’s Role?
Posted on Oct 6, 2009Nurses and everyone else are invited to join Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow and the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) for one of four upcoming presentations.
Come learn about
- The scope of the chemical problem and how chemicals affect the health of women and newborns.
- What are endocrine disruptors, the health effects and long-term risks?
- What is the buzz about BPA (bisphenol A), the health impacts, latest science and the Department of public health’s response?
- What are the chemicals are used in health and beauty products and how do they affect women’s health
- What can nurses do to protect the health of our patients?
"No Family History" at the Coolidge Corner Theater
Posted on Sep 25, 2009
One hundred and eighty-two thousand women will contract breast cancer this year. Forty-one thousand will die of it; every eleven minutes we will lose another woman to the disease. This documentary film makes these statistics real by following one woman who is diagnosed, treated and recovers from breast cancer. Robin demands to know why she got breast cancer, posing questions about their exposure to environmental toxics. Her intimate story brings the visually hidden experience of breast cancer into light, and motivates us to ask why so much illness and why don't we know how to stop it?
Join Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow and Director/Producer Sabrina McCormick for an exclusive showing of this powerful film.
Wednesday, October 14th, 7:00 PM
Coolidge Corner Theater
Join Book Club on August 25th!
Posted on Aug 12, 2009 On Tuesday, August 25 Stacy Malkan, author of Not Just a Pretty Face, will share her knowledge of safe cosmetics through a webinar! It will be hosted by our very own Cindy Luppi at Clean Water Action's Boston Office, where you will join a webinar run by Stacy Malkan, herself (so almost like being in your own living room).
When: August 25, 7:00 PM, webinar at 8:00 PM
Where: 262 Washington St. #301, Boston, MA 02108
The book tells the story of how the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics discovered toxic chemicals in our personal care products and their efforts to clean up the U.S. cosmetics industry. This is your chance to ask the author any questions you might have, learn to avoid toxic chemicals in your personal care purchases and learn how you can help change the cosmetics industry.
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Call in Day May 12th - Take the Pledge
Posted on Apr 22, 2009 May 12th will be Call-In Day to Governor Patrick to protect our health from toxics. The Governor promised to support the Safer Alternatives Bill and to support the Department of Public Health in regulating toxic products, and now we are demanding action. We need to remind him of is pledge and urge him to ban Bisphenol A in children's products and actively support the Safer Alternatives Bill.
Let us know that you will make the call by signing a pledge today. Then help us make a bigger impact by getting your family, friends, and neighbors to do the same. Make sure to mark your calendars so you don't forget on May 12th to make the call to the Governor at 617-725-4005.
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Safe Cosmetics Workshop in Boston
Posted on Mar 24, 2009Toxic chemicals are commonplace in personal care products, and no one is minding the store - not the cosmetics industry, not the FDA.
Baby bottles, food cans, toys, furniture and electronics may also contain chemicals - some of the same nasty stuff in cosmetics - linked to obesity, ADHD, heart disease, reproductive problems and cancer.
So what can you do?
Come meet Mia Davis of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics at the Down2Earth conference in Boston on April 4th!
Read more...Messages in Bottles Delivered to Governor
Posted on Mar 19, 2009
Event covered on the front page of The Boston Globe
On Thursday, March 19th, 2009 about 30 parents and advocates from different parts of the State delivered 8,490 messages to the Governor at the MA State House. Some of those messages were delivered in baby bottles.
We said loud and clear that we want baby products free of toxic chemical BPA!
On Friday morning, there we were on the front page of the Boston Globe waiting to deliver petition signatures. Not shabby coverage at all!
Read more...Poisoned for Pennies
Posted on Jul 8, 2008
What: Book reading, signing and release of Poisoned for Pennies: The Economics of Toxics and Precaution by Frank Ackerman.
When: July 16th, 7-9 pm
Where: Stockholm Environment Institute
11 Curtis Avenue
Somerville, MA 02144
(Near Tufts University)
Poisoned for Pennies looks at the misuse of cost-benefit analysis and how it is impeding efforts to protect and clean up our environment, especially in the case of toxic chemicals. However, there is an alternative, precautionary approach to making decisions under uncertainty.
Read more...AHT's Blue Green Training
Posted on Mar 27, 2008
On June 16, 2006, the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow's Labor Advisory Committee hosted a Blue-Green Alliance Building Training at the Walker Center in Newton, Mass.
The workshop included a Friday evening program and a full day Saturday interactive session.
The evening program and discussion featured Steve Gauthier from IUE/CWA 201 and the North Shore Labor Council and Joel Tickner, professor and expert in chemicals policy from UMass Lowell School of Health and the Environment.
Read more...Hundreds Push for Safer Alternatives
Posted on May 10, 2007
On Thursday (May 10th), in honor of Mother's Day, hundreds of concerned residents from across Massachusetts descended upon the State House to lobby their state legislators about the need to replace toxic chemicals with safer alternatives.
Scientists are increasingly finding links between chemicals often found in common household products like cleaners, cosmetics and plastic with a variety of diseases and disorders including cancer, asthma and learning disabilities. Among the attendees of the lobby day were parents, ministers, teachers, workers, students, health advocates, doctors and many others.
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