[CoolCommunities] Fwd: March 14th Toxics and Tomorrow's Children Conference

[Diane Brandon]

While toxics aren't directly related to global warming, you may be  
interested in this.
DB

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> From: Melissa Boyd <psr_maine at yahoo.com>
> Date: February 6, 2008 9:00:27 AM EST
> To: list
> Subject: March 14th Toxics and Tomorrow's Children Conference
>
> PLEASE POST WIDELY-
>
> Making the Connection III: Toxics and Tomorrow’s Children
> March 14, 2008, 8:30am-4:00pm
> Abromson Center at the University of Southern Maine, Portland Maine
>
> Young children and developing babies in the womb are uniquely  
> vulnerable to toxic chemicals which also threaten wildlife  
> development.  Our federal safety system for industrial chemicals is  
> badly broken requiring state leadership in chemical policy reform.   
> Emerging science links chronic disease trends to preventable  
> chemical exposures.  The concerns around chemicals in children’s  
> products have flooded the news and are moving citizens and groups  
> to unite across the county to ignite change.  This conference will  
> bring together health and scientific experts, policy perspectives  
> and on the ground activists to address the most pressing issues  
> surrounding toxics and children’s health.
>
> Keynote speaker Dr. Phil Landrigan, MD, MSc., Director of the  
> Center for Children’s Health.
>  In 1997 and 1998, Dr. Landrigan served as Senior Advisor on  
> Children’s Health to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental  
> Protection Agency.  He was responsible at EPA for helping to  
> establish a new Office of Children’s Health Protection.
>
> $45.00per person, $75.00 CME’s, $20.00 Students (Lunch included in  
> fee)
>
> REGISTER TODAY at www.psrmaine.org
> A project of the Learning Disabilities Association of Maine,  
> Environmental Health Strategy Center, American Lung Association of  
> Maine, Maine Council of Churches, Toxics Action Center, University  
> of Southern Maine Department of Environmental Science, Maine Public  
> Health Association and Physicians for Social Responsibility/Maine
>
>
> REGISTER Today for the March 14th Toxics and Tomorrow's Children  
> Conference by visiting www.psrmaine.org
>
> Melissa A. Boyd
> Executive Director
> Physicians for Social Responsibility/Maine
> P.O. Box 1771
> Portland, ME 04104
> Ph. 207-772-6714 FX. 207-699-5885
> www.psrmaine.org
>
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