Posts by Nick
Children’s Environmental Health Network
The Children’s Environmental Health Network protects the developing child from environmental health hazards and promotes a healthier environment.
Read MoreDr. Tyrone Hayes
Ceres Trust provides support for the research of independent scientist Dr. Tyrone Hayes through the Beyond Pesticides Fund for Independent Science.
Read MoreDr. Sandra Steingraber
Ceres Trust provides support for research and writing led by Dr. Steingraber, and provides support to grassroots organizations that seek to host a lecture by Dr. Steingraber at an organizing event.
Read MoreProject TENDR
A collaboration of scientists, health professionals and children’s and environmental advocates who came together out of concern over the substantial scientific evidence linking toxic environmental chemicals to neurodevelopmental disorders.
Read MoreIncreasing Production, Building Topsoil
Ecology Action’s GROW BIOINTENSIVE enables small-scale farms and farmers to significantly increase food production and income, utilize predominantly local, renewable resources and decrease expense and energy inputs while building fertile topsoil at a rate 60 times faster than in nature.
Read MoreUNFRACTURED
A triumphant documentary about fighting with your whole heart, UNFRACTURED follows biologist and mother Sandra Steingraber as she reinvents herself as an outspoken activist and throws herself into an environmental war that many believe is unwinnable. From Gracie Award-winning filmmaker Chanda Chevannes (Living Downstream), UNFRACTURED held its World Premiere at the Opening Night Gala of the 2017 Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival in Toronto, where the film won the Best Canadian Feature Film award.
Read MoreBurned
BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal? is a feature-length documentary which takes an unwavering look at the latest energy industry solution to climate change. The film tells the story of how woody biomass has become the fossil-fuel industry’s renewable, green savior, and of the people and parties who are both fighting against and promoting its adoption and use.
Read MoreFood Justice Tour and Summit
Hawai’i Alliance for Progressive Action and Pesticide Action Network collaborated on an international food justice tour and summit, challenging the global impacts of the agrichemical industry and bringing together pesticide–affected communities from around the world into common cause.
Read MoreOrganizing to Protect Children
Hawai’i SEED organized alongside mothers from across the Hawaiian Islands to meet with the Governor and staff, demanding that children be protected from the health and developmental harms related to pesticide exposure (2016).
Read MorePesticides in Paradise
The Hawai’i Center for Food Safety published a report, Pesticides in Paradise, Hawai’i’s Health and Environment at Risk, shared across the islands to engage communities in learning about pesticide use in Hawai’i, and taking steps to protect the health, sovereignty, and diverse ecosystems of the island chain.
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