MNCHEC minnesota children's health environmental coalition

RESOURCES

ÞMinnesota Groups.

City of Minneapolis, Environmental Services Division

250 South 4^th Street - Room 502, Minneapolis, MN 55415

Contact: Johanna Miller, (612) 673-3856, johanna.miller@ci.Minneapolis.mn.us

 

Clean Water Action Alliance

326 Hennepin Av. East, Minneapolis, MN 55414

Contact: Marie Zellar, (612)-623-3666, mzellar@cleanwater.org

www.cleanwateraction.org/mn

 

Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (resources for parents & health professionals)

2105 First Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55404

Contact: Kathleen Schuler, 612-870-3468, kschuler@iatp.org

www.iatp.org

 

University of Minnesota Extension Service,

Soil testing: contact your county extension office (Hennepin Co.- 612-374-8400)

Yard and garden line: 612-624-4771 Master gardener program: Hennepin Co. - 612-374-8433

www.extension.umn.edu

Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy

26 East Exchange St., Suite 206, St. Paul, MN 55101-2264

Contact: Kerry Walsh, 651-223-5969, kpwalsh@mncenter.org

www.mncenter.org

 

Minnesota Department of Health

Division of Environmental Health, 121 East Seventh Place, P.O. Box 64975, St. Paul, MN 55164-0975

All Division programs: 651-215-0700

Children's Environmental Health: Pam Shubat, 651-215-0927

www.health.state.mn.us/divs/eh/children

 

MN Office of Environmental Assistance

520 Lafayette Rd., Second Floor, St. Paul, MN 55155

Contact: Emily Moore, 651-215-0201, emily.moore@moea.state.mn.us

www.moea.state.mn.us

 

Sierra Club (Air Toxics Campaign) Contact: Paula Maccabee, 651-646-8890, pmaccabee@visi.com

 

St. Paul Neighborhood Energy Consortium & Eureka Recycling

624 Selby Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55104

Contact St. Paul NEC: Mary Morse, 651-221-4462, marym@spnec.org

Contact Eureka Recycling: Susan Hubbard, 651-222-7678, susanh@eurekarecycling.org

 

Sustainable Resources Center (resources for lead and indoor air quality)

1916 Second Av. S., Minneapolis, MN 55403

Contact: Megan Curran, 612phone: 612-872-4255, fax: 612-872-0729

 

Women's Cancer Resource Center (resources for healthy cleaning & cancer prevention)

4604 Chicago Av. S., Minneapolis, MN 55407

Contact: Carol Johnson, 612-822-4846, fax: 612-822-4784 www.givingvoice.org

 

ÞNational Groups.

 

Center for Health Environment and Justice (resources for communities)

Childproofing Our Communities Campaign, www.childproofing.org or www.chej.org

 

Children's Environmental Health Network (CEHN) (resources for health professionals)

5900 Hollis St., Suite R3, Emeryville, CA 94608

phone: 510-597-1394 fax: 510-597-1399 e-mail: cehn@cehn.org web: www.cehn.org

 

Children's Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) (resources for parents, Healthy House on the web)

P.O. Box 1540, Princeton, N.J. 08542

phone: 609-252-1915 fax: 609-252-1536 e-mail: chec@checnet.org web: www.checnet.org

 

Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (resources for health professionals and parents)

Preventing Harm Project, www.igc.org/psr/

 

Greenpeace U.S.A. (resources on toxic toys) 1436 U St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20009

phone: 202-462-1177 fax: 202-293-2270 web:www.greenpeace.org

 

Healthy Schools Network (resources to create healthy school environments)

773 Madison Av., Albany, N.Y. 12208

web: www.healthyschools.org e-mail: info@healthyschools.org

 

Safe 2 Use (resources for non-toxic products and services) www.safetouse.com

 

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (Child Health Program)

http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/child/ochchildhlth.html

 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Office of Children's Health Protection)

http://www.epa.gov/children/index.htm

 

National Library of Medicine (list of government web sites) http://nnlm.gov/partners/children


ÞPublications.

Clean House, Clean Planet (1997) Karen Logan. Pocket Books. Information on making your own non-toxic cleaning products. To order, call 1-818-880-5144.