Healthy Actions Educate Others! Now that you know more about how synthetic toxics and pollutants can threaten the health of God’s people and good earth, pass on the message. Here are some ideas to get you started. Download Mindful Living: Human Health, Pollution, and Toxics. This brand new education, action and worship resource is full of ideas to lead a bible study, organize a worship service, or lead youth group activities on environmental health. View the Christian Principles for a Healthy Body and Spirit. Ask your pastor or a woman religious to sign them. Take them with you on a visit to talk with your congressmember. Share this website with friends and family. Let others know our faith tradition’s call to care for the health of our bodies, our communities, and God’s creation, and how they can protect their families from harmful pollutants in their everyday lives. If you live in Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Washington, or Minnesota arrange for a National Council of Churches representative to give a presentation at your church- or better yet, attend a workshop on giving an environmental health presentation. Contact Environmental Health Assistant Director, Chloe Schwabe for more details. Host a green cleaning fellowship activity in your church by downloading our green cleaning toolkit with a how-to guide complete with recipes, fact sheets and more. Lift up your voice! People across the country are lifting up concerns for creation, children, the elderly, pregnant women, communities of color, and low income communities who are most vulnerable to the hazards that toxic chemicals and other pollutants pose to human health and the health of our planet. The National Council of Churches is working directly with congregations in Michigan, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Maine. But there are coalitions in many other states that are working to protect the health of vulnerable communities and God’s creation. See below for contacts in states where you live. Take this opportunity to lift your voice for justice! Back to Environmental Health Home Page Maine Faith Contact: Andy Burt- Maine Council of Churches 207-882-6848 adburt@gwi.net Coalition: Alliance for a Clean and Healthy Maine Massachusetts Faith Contact: Laura Everett- Massachusetts Council of Churches 617-523-2771 laura@masscouncilofchurches.org www.healthytomorrow.org Michigan Faith Contact: Patty Gillis- Voices for Earth Justice 248-351-9001 Voices4earth@juno.com Coalition: Michigan Network for Children’s Environmental Health Minnesota Faith Contact: Lynne Holman- Minnesota Council of Churches 612.230.3211 lynne.holman@mnchurches.org Coalition: Healthy Legacy Coalition Washington Faith Contact: Beth Anderson- Earth Ministry (206)632-2426 beth@earthministry.org Coalition: Toxic Free Legacy Coalition California Californians for a Healthy and Green Economy (CHANGE) Contact Ansje Miller at the Center for Environmental Health or Jose Bravo at the Just Transitions Alliance for more information. Ansje: ansje@cehca.org, Tel: (510) 594-9864 Jose: justtransition@sbcglobal.net Tel: 619-474-4001 Connecticut Coalition for a Safe and Healthy Connecticut New York JustGreen Partnership Toxic Free Future