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Sustaining Communities
https://mymedia.bu.edu/media/t/1_8t7v0mab SUSTAINING COMMUNITIES held April 28, 2:30-5:30 By Zoom Municipalities, counties and neighborhoods, with equitable state and federal support, could have the ability and resources to move positively towards sustainability. Adequate staff, training and resources for regularly engaging with new issues and the public would accelerate policy development and progress in transitioning to cleaner and […]
Needed Lead Law, 4/2024
On April 22, construction exposure and prevention expert Michael Sharp, and Eve Gartner and Gabrielle Gonzales of EarthJustice joined Earth and Environment’s Rick Reibstein and others in discussing how law (defined broadly) can evolve to better enable society to prevent more unnecessary harm from the continued use and dispersion of lead. Rick Reibstein: Needed Lead […]
Detoxifying Commerce
CONFERENCE VIDEO Students from local schools and environmental citizens concerned about toxics in our environment will convene on April 19 from 2-4 to hear from experts on how we can reduce toxics in our lives. Attendees will move from learned helplessness to agency by hearing about what can be done and how doable it is, […]
Accelerating the Transition to Lead-free Skies
National Zoom conference December 15, 2022, noon – 3, with participants representing communities affected by lead emissions, aircraft users, airport managers, and federal and local government. Constructive engagement concerning a powerfully charged topic produced a vision of an alignment of interests (cleaner engines, cleaner skies) around the elimination of lead. View a factsheet (updated 11/23): […]
Quiet, Clean Land Care
The Quiet Transition: Leading by Example in Quiet, Clean Land Care, December 16, 2021. A project of Jamie Banks of Quiet Communities and Rick Reibstein of Boston University, assisted by Senior Matt Tate of the BU class “Research for Environmental Agencies and Organizations (CAS EE 538)”. Presentations by: Christine Scalera, Deputy Town Attorney of Southampton, […]