To support Health Care Without Harm, which works with Boston area health care institutions and policy makers to convince of the need to protect the public and the environment from dioxin, mercury and other toxic products used in health care…
To provide a merit award.
To provide a merit award.
To build local support for natural resource protection by strengthening the connections between a healthy resource base and economic opportunities.
To educate citizens about their multiple exposures to pesticides and the associated health risks.
In conjunction with the ConnPIRG Education Fund, to promote reduced use of pesticides in schools. EHHI will complete a survey of pesticide use in Connecticut schools and publicize the results.
To provide general support.
To educate and train health care professionals–nurses, administrators, and hospital trustees–about the need to reduce the environmental damage the industry causes, particularly from such practices as incinerating waste, which is a major source of dioxin and mercury emissions.
To educate parents, teachers and the medical community about the connections between exposure to environmental toxins and learning disabilities and behavioral problems in children.
To create a full-time science director position.