Toxics & Healthy Communities
The use of toxics can have an adverse affect on our water, food, air, and wildlife. AYEA teens have worked on a number of visible and successful projects to promote a clean environment and protect our right to know when and where toxics are being used. These efforts range from establishing school pesticide use policies to educating parents about the harmful health effects of idling vehicles. Learn how to make your community healthy!
AYEA Resources
Pesticides Right to Know Resources
- Healthy Schools Action Kit
- Alaska Community Action on Toxics- “Right to Know” resources
- Chronic Illness & Pesticides
ACAT Pesticides Fact Sheets
- Beyond Pesticides: Children, Pesticides, and Schools
- Model School Pesticide Act
- Beyond Pesticides School Success Stories featuring Alaska and AYEA’s Pesticides project
Pesticides Right to Know Media
- Tracking Toxics, Orion Magazine
- ACF Success Story: ACAT and AYEA Right to Know Legislation
- Petition signature gathering starts at AYEA Summer Fund Raiser
- Testimony on Senate Bill 119, legislation requiring pesticide tracking, with testimony by AYEA graduate Shannon Kuhn
Links
Alaska Community Action on Toxics
A statewide organization established in 1997 and dedicated to achieving environmental health and justice. Our mission is: to assure justice by advocating for environmental and community health. We believe that everyone has the right to clean air, clean water, and toxic-free food. We work to eliminate the production and release of harmful chemicals by industry and military sources; ensure community right-to-know; achieve policies based on the precautionary principle; and support the rights and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples. ACAT has four program areas: Military Toxics and Health; Northern Contaminants and Health; Pesticide Right-to-Know; and Water Quality Protection
