Taking Action
Taking action to minimize or eliminate the negative environmental health impacts in your life can take many forms. It could involve changing your diet to include organic produce and hormone free meat. Perhaps you decide to join a local group as a volunteer to share resources or information about local issues, like chemicals in the air from a local manufacturing plant. It could also be sharing a personal experience that others can learn from. Showing up for yourself and your family or becoming involved in local initiatives makes a difference. Learn more by exploring the resources and information on this page.
The selection of videos below are excerpts from Susan Luck’s vast lecture library and provide insights into the importance of our actions have on environmental health.
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Enact Action with Environmental Health Strategies
Learn what steps you can start taking now to reduce your exposure to environmental toxins. This list of strategies, compiled by Susan Luck was influenced by her vast experience and wealth of knowledge. You don’t have to make all the changes listed in this document today, but over time try to incorporate new strategies into your daily life. This approach will help set you up for success and you make meaningful, actionable change.
Approx. Reading Time: 5 min
Number of Pages: 3
To view each excerpt in its own window, click on arrow in the upper righthand corner of each text.
This text is used with permission from the International Nurse Coach Association
Resources to further support and grow Action
- Beyond Pesticides
- Canary Club – personal and environmental information, saliva testing and support networks
- Earth Save – provides information and action network for plant based diets
- Environmental Working Group
- Health & Environment Resource Center – resources to connect symptoms to environmental causes
- Organic Consumers Association – information on organic foods and action network
- Breast Cancer Action
- Silent Spring Institute – focuses on environmental links to women’s health
- Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America
- Autism Research Institute – information about autism for parents and professionals
- Healthy Schools Network
- KidsHealth – health information, games, animated shorts and resources
- Collaborative on Health and the Environment
- Environmental Health Perspectives – Johns Hopkins resource
- Pesticide Info – database of pesticides and action network
- Radiation Research Trust – information about the impacts of electromagnetic radiation