Chemical Sensitivity
Environmental Defense: Multi-Topic
Genetics
Global Sustainable Development
Health-General
Pesticides In Schools
Toxins
Women's Health

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Chronic Syndrome Support Association
The Chronic Syndrome Support Association, Inc., was founded in 1997 in order to educate the general public and health-care professionals on current research, as well as needed research on Chronic Immunological and Neurological Disorders (CIND). CIND includes: Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS), Gulf War Syndrome (GWS), Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Syndrome (MCS), Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic Myofascial Pain (CMP), Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS) and related illnesses.

KB Cotton Pillows
100% cotton pillow for chemically sensitive or those with allergies.

Nirvana Safe Haven
All chemical-free, organic, natural, nontoxic products for homes and work places.

EarthJustice
Earthjustice is a non-profit public interest law firm dedicated to protecting the magnificent places, natural resources, and wildlife of this earth and to defending the right of all people to a healthy environment. We bring about far-reaching change by enforcing and strengthening environmental laws on behalf of hundreds of organizations and communities.

Environmental Defense
Environmental Defense is a leading national nonprofit organization representing more than 300,000 members. Environmental Defense is dedicated to protecting the environmental rights of all people, including future generations. Among these rights are clean air and water, healthy and nourishing food, and a flourishing ecosystem. Program areas include: ecosystem restoration, environmental alliances, environmental health, global and regional air/energy, international, living cities and oceans.

Enviro Health Action
Resources, publications and news, on issues of: Toxics & Health, Children's Environmental Health, Air pollution & Health, Climate Change, Energy & Health, Chronic Disease & the Environment, Safe Drinking Water, Land Use and Public Health and Vulnerable Populations.

Greenpeace USA
Greenpeace is the leading independent campaigning organization that uses non-violent direct action and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and to promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future.

International Network for Environmental Management
INEM, the International Network for Environmental Management, is a non-profit, non-partisan, world federation of national associations for environmental management and sustainable development. INEM aims to help companies improve their environmental and economic performance.

Mindfully.org
The goal of mindfully.org is to provide useful information to people who would not obtain this information otherwise. Mindfully.org is to be used as a nonprofit research tool.

National Resources Defense Council
NRDC is the nation's most effective environmental action organization. We use law, science, and the support of more than 1 million members and online activists to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.

PennEnvironment
We focus exclusively on protecting Pennsylvania's air, water and open spaces. We speak out and take action at the local, state and national levels to improve the quality of our environment and our lives.

Sierra Club
The Sierra Club's members are 700,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization. Topic areas include: clean water, energy, toxics, global population, human rights, sprawl, global warming, protection of national forests, wildlands campaign, environmental education, environmental justice, factory farms, genetic engineering, species & habitat, sustainable consumption and nuclear waste.

Women's Voices for the Earth
Women's Voices for the Earth is a nonprofit, women-centered environmental justice organization. Our mission is to empower women, who historically have had little power to affect environmental policy, to create an ecologically sustainable and socially just society.

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Louisiana Bucket Brigade
The Louisiana Bucket Brigade (LABB), founded in January 2000, is an environmental organization led by communities that neighbor the state's oil refineries and chemical plants. The "bucket" is a community friendly tool that citizens use to take air samples. The LABB was created to arm community members directly impacted by pollution with buckets, cameras, and video cameras so that we can gather evidence to expose the health risks of industrial abuses and broadcast that information immediately. The information gathered by the citizens is used in campaigns to pressure state and federal regulators, to research and expose operations at targeted facilities, to alert communities and the general public that industrial emissions poison our air with hazardous chemicals, and to create change.

The Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network
The Pennsylvania Consumer Action Network (PCAN) is the state's independent statewide consumer and environmental organization. At a time when "big money" special interests dominate our government, it is critical that a statewide organization take the lead in standing up for working families in Pennsylvania. We believe that through collective action we can make our voice heard to protect our economy, our environment, and our democracy.

PennFuture
PennFuture works to create a just future where nature, communities and the economy thrive. We enforce environmental laws and advocate for the transformation of public policy, public opinion and the marketplace to restore and protect the environment and safeguard public health. PennFuture advances effective solutions for the problems of pollution, sprawl and global warming; mobilizes citizens; crafts compelling communications; and provides excellent legal services and policy analysis.

Pennsylvania Resource Council
A nonprofit citizens' action organization founded in 1939, PRC serves as a vital link between industry, government and grass-roots organizations -- initiating dialogue between these groups to seek solutions to environmental problems. Recognized as a state and national leader in waste reduction and recycling, PRC also works to protect our nation's scenic beauty by fighting litter and visual pollution.

Public Interest Research Groups
The state Public Interest Research Groups are an alliance of state-based, citizen-funded organizations that advocate for the public interest. We uncover threats to public health and well-being and fight to end them, using the time-tested tools of investigative research, media exposes, grassroots organizing, advocacy and litigation.

The Natural Resource Council of Maine
Harnessing the power of people, science and the law to protect Maine's environment. Our vision is of a Maine where citizens from all parts of the state and all walks of life feel that their grandchildren will inherit a place where the water is pure, the air is clean, the forests are vibrant, and native plants and animals are safeguarded.

Geneletter
Geneletter is a website dedicated to keeping its readers updated on the current goings-on in genetic medicine and related issues in ethics, policy and social impact, science and technology, and culture.

Center for Genetics and Society
The Center for Genetics and Society is a nonprofit information and public affairs organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of the new human genetic and reproductive technologies. We work with a growing network of scientists, health professionals, civil society leaders, and others.

Council for Responsible Genetics
The Council for Responsible Genetics fosters public debate about the social, ethical and environmental implications of genetic technologies, including biotechnology and agriculture, cloning and human genetic manipulation, biowarfare and other genetic issues. CRG works through the media and concerned citizens to distribute accurate information and represent the public interest on emerging issues in biotechnology.

EarthRights International
ERI is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group of activists, organizers, and lawyers with expertise in human rights, the environment, and corporate and government accountability. ERI has offices in the U.S. and Southeast Asia.

Sisterhood is Global
Sisterhood Is Global Institute is an international non-governmental, non-profit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of women's rights at the local, national, regional, and global levels. With members in 70 countries, and a network of more than 1300 individuals and organizations worldwide, SIGI works toward empowering women and developing leadership through human rights education.

UnReasonable Women for the Earth

Women's Edge
Women's Edge advocates international economic policies and human rights to support poor women worldwide in their actions to end poverty in their lives, communities, and nations.

Women's Environment & Development Organization
WEDO is an international advocacy organization that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers at all levels in governments, institutions and forums to achieve economic and social justice, a healthy and peaceful planet, and human rights for all.

Women's International Coalition for Economic Justice
WICEJ is an international coalition representing organisations in all regions of the globe. WICEJ works to link gender with macro-economic policy in international inter-governmental policy-making arenas, from a human-rights perspective.

American College of Preventive Medicine
The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) is the national professional society for physicians committed to disease prevention and health promotion. ACPM's 2,000 members are engaged in preventive medicine practice, teaching and research. Many serve on ACPM committees and task forces and represent preventive medicine in national forums, contributing to the organization's role as a major national resource of expertise in disease prevention and health promotion.

Commonweal
Commonweal is a health and environmental research institute working in three specific areas: (1) Helping people with cancer and health professionals who work with people with life-threatening illnesses; (2) Helping children and young adults with learning and social difficulties, and the childcare professionals who work with them; advocating for policies that support violence prevention and juvenile justice reform; (3) the global search for a healthy and sustainable future.

Drmyhill
This website contains a large number of articles relating to many aspects of many different medical conditions as well as information about a number of diagnostic tests.

Health Care Without Harm
Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition of 420 organizations in 51 countries working to transform the health care industry so it is no longer a source of harm to people and the environment.

Intelihealth
Aetna InteliHealth's mission is to empower people with trusted solutions for healthier lives. This is accomplished by providing credible information from trusted sources, including Harvard Medical School and University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. Health information includes health news and content as well as access to tools and risk assessments.

World Health Organization
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was established on April 7th 1948. WHO's objective is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The main tasks of the World Health Assembly (made up of representatives from 192 member states) are to approve the WHO programme and the budget for the following biennium and to decide major policy questions.

Child Proofing our Communities Campaign
Child Proofing Our Communities Campaign is coordinated by the Center for Health, Environmental & Justice in an effort to channel the rising concern of parents and communities across the country into effective and coordinated grassroots action aimed at eliminating environmental health hazards from our schools. Raising awareness of parents and communities, empowering them to take action at the local level, will stimulate the public pressure needed to topple special interest lobbying efforts to derail the passage and enforcement of child protective environmental health laws.

Tools for Healthy Schools
This web site is the result of seven years of community advocacy on the issues of children's health and environmental toxics in schools. It provides information about toxic chemical hazards, how they may be affecting children, and what can be done to reduce toxic exposure in schools.

National Organizations:

Beyond Pesticides
Beyond Pesticides began in 1981 as the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides, a non-profit membership organization that was formed to serve as a national network committed to pesticide safety and the adoption of alternative pest management strategies which reduce or eliminate a dependency on toxic chemicals. We provide the public with useful information on pesticides and alternatives to their use. With this information, people can and do protect themselves and the environment from the potential adverse public health and environmental effects associated with the use and misuse of pesticides.

Center for Environmental Health
The Center for Environmental Health is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the public from environmental health hazards and toxic exposures by directly influencing corporate behavior.

Center for Health, Environment and Justice
CHEJ seeks to help local citizens and organizations come together and take an organized, unified stand in order to hold industry and government accountable and work toward a healthy, environmentally sustainable future.

Chemical Body Burden
Before we are even born, synthetic chemicals and heavy metals of all kinds begin building up in our bodies. This chemical "body burden" is the focus of the information you will find on this web site.

Chlorine Free Products Association
The Chlorine Free Products Association is a unique trade association representing companies dedicated to implementing advanced technologies, and/or, groups supporting products free of chlorine chemistry. Advances in totally chlorine free {TCF} pulp and paper making, water purification, air conditioning, etc. make it possible to eliminate releases of toxic chlorinated compounds to our air, water, and soil.

Coming Clean
Coming Clean is a network of groups and individuals whose common goal is to work together on chemical policies and campaigns to protect public health and the environmental from exposures to harmful and unstudied chemicals.

Environmental Research Foundation
Environmental Research Foundation (ERF) was founded in 1980 to provide understandable scientific information about the influence of toxic substances on human health and the environment. We provide information to grass-roots community activists, environmentalists, journalists, librarians, and others. We specialize in information on hazardous substances and hazardous technologies, including landfills, incinerators, pesticides, organochlorine compounds, risk assessments, and their effects on human and environmental health.

Global Community Monitor
Global Community Monitor (GCM) is a newly established environmental justice and human rights non-profit that empowers industrial communities to re-create a clean, healthy and truly sustainable environment. GCM was created to provide hands-on tools for impacted communities to monitor their own neighborhoods. GCM builds on successful strategies used to hold major corporations accountable in the U.S and throughout the world. Through GCM, local community struggles are linked and their efforts multiplied.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
NIEHS is one of the National Institutes of Health. Along with its sister National Toxicology Program, NIEHS is within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Pesticide Action Network, North America
PANNA (Pesticide Action Network North America) works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. We link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens' action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to insure the transition to a just and viable society.

Physicians for Social Responsibility
Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) is a leading public policy organization with 24,000 members representing the medical and public health professions and concerned citizens, working together for nuclear disarmament, a healthful environment, and an end to the epidemic of gun violence.

Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN)
SEHN advocates the wise application of science to protecting the environment and public health. Founded in 1994, SEHN serves as both network and think tank for the environmental movement by helping environmental organizations use science in their work, guiding scientists to public interest research and public service, informing public policy with science grounded in ethics and logic. "Research and Action" program areas include: The Precautionary Principle, Biotechnology, Public Interest Research, Public Health, Ecosystem Health, Statements and Environmental Science and the Law.

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Alaska Community Action on Toxics
The mission of Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) is to protect human health and the environment from the toxic effects of contaminants. We are dedicated to achieving environmental justice. We work to ensure responsible cleanup of contaminated sites and empower community involvement in cleanup decisions. We strive to stop the production, proliferation, and release of toxic chemicals.

Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League is a regional, community-based, non-profit environmental organization. Our founding principles are earth stewardship, environmental democracy, social justice, and community empowerment. The issues center on industry's dependence on toxic chemicals, utilities' refusal to adopt sound energy alternatives, industrial development and highway construction at the expense of public health, intensive livestock operations' effects on agriculture and the environment, and huge waste dumps. These are social problems with devastating environmental and public health effects. They are also the clarion call for community action.

CT. Coalition for Environmental Justice
The mission of Connecticut Coalition for Environmental Justice is to protect urban environments primarily in Connecticut through educating communities, through promoting changes in local, state, and national policy, and through promoting individual, corporate and governmental responsibility towards our environment.

Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition (SVTC) is a diverse grassroots coalition that engages in research, advocacy, and organizing around the environmental and human health problems caused by the rapid growth of the high-tech electronics industry.

Breast Cancer Fund
In response to the public health crisis of breast cancer, The Breast Cancer Fund (TBCF) identifies -- and advocates for elimination of -- the environmental and other preventable causes of the disease. Founded in 1992, TBCF works from the knowledge that breast cancer is not simply a personal tragedy, but a public health priority that demands action from all.

Our Bodies Ourselves
Our Bodies Ourselves (OBOS), also known as the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, empowers women with information about health, sexuality, and reproduction. We work in and for the public interest, promote equality between women and men, and build bridges among social justice movements.

Our Stolen Future
This is the official website for Our Stolen Future, the book that brought world-wide attention to scientific discoveries revealing that common contaminants can interfere with the natural signals controlling development of the fetus. Visit this website to follow the emerging science and debates about new advances in toxicology that challenge basic assumptions about which chemicals are safe and what exposures are tolerable.

National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations
National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) is a nonprofit information and education resource on breast cancer with a network of over 400 member organizations nationwide.

National Ovarian Cancer Coalition
NOCC is the leading ovarian cancer public information and education organization in the United States. NOCC initiated the first toll free ovarian cancer information line (1-888-OVARIAN), maintains the comprehensive website for ovarian cancer support in the world and has built a network of many state chapters across the U.S.

Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., is the world's largest and most trusted voluntary reproductive health care organization. Founded by Margaret Sanger in 1916 as America's first birth control clinic, Planned Parenthood believes in everyone's right to choose when or whether to have a child, that every child should be wanted and loved, and that women should be in charge of their own destinies.

Poisoned Cosmetics, Not too Pretty
Website dedicated to educating the public on the dangers of phthalates in beauty products. Phthalates are a group of chemicals that have been linked to liver, kidney, lung and reproductive damage and birth defects.

Reproductive Rights
ACLU's section on reproductive rights

Saving Women's Lives
The Savings Women's Lives initiative is an international collaboration of organizations dedicated to the health and well being of the world's women. Led by Family Care International, Saving Women's Lives aims to educate and raise awareness of the broad range of women's global health and rights issues, including reproductive health, safe motherhood, poverty and economic development, violence against women, women's social status and education.

Silent Spring Institute
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.

World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action
The World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA) is a global people's initiative to protect, promote and support breastfeeding, while working to end the toxic contamination of children and communities. WABA acts on the Innocenti Declaration targets and works in close liaison with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Women's Health Matters
This site is based at the Women's College Ambulatory Care Centre. Women's health experts from Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Sciences Centre and the Centre for Research in Women's Health developed this site and play an ongoing role in its expansion and review. At Women's Health Matters you will find the latest information, news and research findings on women's health, diseases and lifestyle trends. Use this information, within the supportive learning environment of the web, to make informed decisions about your health and your health care needs.

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