CHEJ is spearheading the national “BE SAFE” campaign (http://www.besafenet.com/) to build support for the precautionary approach to preventing pollution and environmental destruction before they happen. You can add your name or your organization to the hundreds of national, state and grassroots organizations and individuals who have already expressed support for preventive, protective policies in the United States.

Children's Environmental Health Network
Phone: (202) 543-4033
The Children's Environmental Health Network is a national, multi-disciplinary organization, whose mission is to protect the fetus and child from environmental health hazards and promote a healthy environment.

Community-Based Participatory Research
Boston University School of Public Health doctoral student, Madeleine Scammell, maintains a list of resources on community-based participatory research.

Environmental Justice Resource Center
Phone: (404) 880-6911
The Environmental Justice Resource Center (EJRC) at Clark Atlanta University was serves as a research, policy, and information clearinghouse on issues related to environmental justice, race and the environment, civil rights, facility siting, land use planning, brownfields, transportation equity, suburban sprawl, and Smart Growth. The overall goal of the center is to assist, support, train, and educate people of color students, professionals, and grassroots community leaders with the goal of facilitating their inclusion into the mainstream of environmental decision-making.

Environmental Research Foundation
Phone: (888) 2RACHEL
ERF aims to strengthen democracy by helping people find the information they need to fight for environmental justice in their own communities. ERF publishes the on-line, “Rachel’s Environment & Health News,” an accessible informative, bi-weekly newsletter on a range of environmental health topics. Click on “rachel’s.” The archives are highly searchable and include some issues on Love Canal.

Environmental Working Group
Phone: (202) 667-6982
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a not-for-profit environmental research organization dedicated to improving public health and protecting the environment by reducing pollution in air, water and food. Based in Washington, D.C., and with an office in Oakland, California, EWG conducts groundbreaking, computer-assisted research on a variety of environmental issues. Recent EWG research topics have included pesticides in foods, air, and water; the cutback in energy conservation programs by California utilities; and toxic substances in beauty products.

Greenaction
Phone: (415) 252-0822
Greenaction mobilizes community power to win victories that change government and corporate policies and practices to protect health and to promote environmental justice.

Health Care Without Harm
Phone: (202) 234-0091
Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition of 429 organizations in 52 countries working to transform the health care industry so it is no longer a source of harm to people and the environment.

John Snow Institute - Center for Environmental Health Studies
(617) 482-9485
The JSI Center for Environmental Health Studies provides expert assistance to community and labor groups, advocates, and governmental agencies concerning the health effects of exposure to hazardous chemicals. Areas of expertise include: medicine, industrial hygiene, toxicology, epidemiology, biostatistics, public policy advocacy, and environmental education.

Resource Institute for Low Entropy Systems
Phone: (617) 524-7258
The ReSource Institute for Low Entropy Systems (RILES) is an independent, nonprofit organization that works in partnership with communities in English and Spanish speaking countries to protect public health and the environment. We support non-depleting, non-wasting, non-polluting methods and technologies for sustainable development.

Program for the Ecology of Human Systems
RILES and the Boston University School of Public Health jointly sponsor the Program for the Ecology of Human Systems (PEHS). PEHS seeks to increase popular understanding of the implications to human and environmental health of technological choices and to influence public policy respecting those choices. PEHS links students, public health professionals, and community members concerned about the local environment. Activities include research, classroom instruction, field-based projects, and sponsoring conferences and seminars. This web site, “Lessons from Love Canal” is a project of PEHS.

The Science and Environmental Health Network
Phone: (515) 268-0600
The Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN) advocates the wise application of science to protecting the environment and public health. SEHN serves as both network and think tank for the environmental movement, helping environmental organizations use science in their work, guiding scientists to public interest research and public service, and informing public policy with science grounded in ethics and logic.

Silent Spring Institute
Phone: (617) 332-4288
Silent Spring Institute is a non-profit scientific research organization dedicated to identifying the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer. It is a groundbreaking collaboration of scientists, physicians, health advocates, and community activists, and a leading edge research institution using multi-disciplinary, state-of-the-art approaches.

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