Research and Teaching Tools
This page features selected websites with information for doing environmental research on your community as well as tools for educators about the interaction between health and environment. We appreciate your feedback on our website and if you have any tools you'd like to share, please let us know. Thank you.
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The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project (Harvard) Despite longstanding evidence on intimate links between poverty and health, most US public health surveillance system lack socioeconomic data, thus precluding routine monitoring of socioeconomic disparities in health and their contribution to US health inequities, including racial/ethnic health disparities. To address this problem, The Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project geocoded and linked public health surveillance data from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to 1990 census-derived area-based socioeconomic measures (ABSMs) to determine which ABSMs, at which geographic level (census block group, census tract, ZIP Code) could validly be used to monitor socioeconomic inequalities in health across a wide variety of health outcomes, spanning from birth to death. Mapping health disparities hopes to inform action to rectify health inequities.>>> more |
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Pollution in your Community (Scorecard) Get an in-depth pollution report for your county, covering air, water, chemicals, and more. We think American citizens have a right to know what toxic chemicals are being released into their communities. But the EPA recently proposed to limit the information that companies are required to disclose about the hazardous chemicals they release into our environment. |
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Air NOW (EPA) The U.S. EPA, NOAA, NPS, tribal, state, and local agencies developed the AIRNow Web site to provide the public with easy access to national air quality information. The Web site offers daily AQI forecasts as well as real-time AQI conditions for over 300 cities across the US, and provides links to more detailed State and local air quality Web sites. |
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Search your Community (EPA) ENVIRO FACTS: Pollution, hazardous waste sites, and other regulatory information can be searched by zip code. |
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Search Potential Environmental Health Hazards from a list of potential environmental hazards that may be of interest to parents, researchers, and/or have been covered by the media. |
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Health and Toxicology Tutorials (National Library
of Medicine) These online tutorials include:
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Childproofing our Communities: >>>Powerpoint Presentations available
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The Inaugural Richard C. Goodwin Lecture in Honor
of Ethel Lawrence
john a. powell
Director, Kirwan Institute of Race and Ethnicity, Ohio State University |
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Race and Regionalism
Conference -
Univ. of Minnesota
Session I: Segregation & Its Consequences
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Wipe Out Lead New Jersey (WOLNJ) |
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The documentary, "Petty's Island: The Untold Story,"produced by the Camden City African American Commission and the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia as part of Scribe’s Precious Places Community History Project reveals a forgotten part of this little island's history. Petty’s Island, according to the film makers, had been an early settlement of Native Americans and was used in the 17th century as depot for enslaved Africans. |
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Majora
Carter,
who received a 2005 MacArthur "genius" Award, shows how
minority neighborhoods have suffered most from flawed urban policy
and advocates for sustainable, eco-friendly practices
and job training and green-related economic development for
her neighborhood. Carter is the executive
director of Sustainable
South Bronx. >>> to view Majora Carter's talk, click here (TED.com) |
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Chec's
HealtheHouse - an interactive site
for children. House Rules are six broad principles that you can adopt to create a HealtheHouse for your children. Follow these rules in your daily activities to minimize some of the health risks that face children today. >>> more |
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The Bio DAVersity Code. |
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The
L-Curve: the Movie. |
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Rachel Carson Remembered. BILL MOYERS JOURNAL looks at the life and legacy of Rachel Carson and her book SILENT SPRING, which launched the modern environmental movement. Silent Spring (1962) alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. >>>More on Rachel Carson's Legacy >>>www.rachel.org |
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The Story of Stuff "The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard" is an engaging new short film that explains the "materials economy" in 20 fun-filled minutes. The Story of Stuff features Annie Leonard with lots of humor, yet also serious analysis, presented in an easy-to-understand tone. (Multinational Monitor Editor's Blog, Dec 5, 2007) >>> http://www.storyofstuff.com/ |
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Zero Waste for Zero Warming Tell Congress: Get the Garbage out of the 2007 US Energy Bill. Using names like waste-to-energy, gasification, and plasma, disposal companies have gained access to billions of dollars in public money handouts meant for renewable energy projects. >>> more |
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The
Meatrix Fight Factory Farms! The award-winning flash animation movie about the meat you eat. Powerful story about industrial meat production. >>> more |
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Bill
Moyers' Journal (PBS, 3/28/08) The Journal looks at an update of the Kerner Commission Report, which blamed the violence on the devastating poverty and hopelessness endemic in the inner cities of the 1960s. >>> More about The Kerner Commission >>> watch the videos |
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Unnatural
Causes- Is Inequality Making Us Sick? (PBS)
The series sheds light on mounting evidence of how lack of access to power and resources can get under the skin and disrupt human biology as surely as germs and viruses.... Researchers believe that chronic stress over the life course may create an additional health burden for people of color. >>> video clips for teaching >>> check out the website |
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All about Maps, including Regional and Local Maps | |||
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European Environment Agency (EEA) aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe's environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public. The future economic costs of climate change — known as the costs of inaction — will be significant in Europe, says a new European Environment Agency (EEA) report, released today. >>> more | |||
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