Take Action to Get Toxic Chemicals out of Products!

Ways you can help:
Step 1: Create your own personal postcard:
Send us a message and a photo and we’ll put it onto a postcard for you.  Your legislator will be motivated by your story!  Is it your children that you want to protect?  Someone you know affected by illness that might have been preventable?  Toxics in your workplace or your products at home?  Tell your story!  See instructions below on how to create your postcard. You may also comment online at www.healthytomorrow.org

Step 2: Ask other people to do the same.
Your postcard will make a difference – and you can make an even bigger difference by getting your friends, family, coworkers, and everyone else you know to make a postcard too!

We’ll mail you postcards – you ask your friends to write their own personal message and add their photo – or you take their photo for them with your own camera!  To get postcards email info@healthytomorrow.org.  Tell us your address and how many you need.

Instructions for your postcard:
Write the message - Fill in the blank:
Dear Representative,
Please make it a priority to help pass the Safer Alternatives bill (An Act to Promote Safer Alternatives to Toxic Chemicals) so that we can have a healthier world!  I support this bill because _______________________
Take the photo:
Take a digital photo of yourself or your family with a sign that says shows why you want this bill passed.  We’ll put it on your postcard – and we’ll also post it online (with your permission) so that others in your district can see that they’re not alone in caring about this issue!
Sample messages for your sign:
Safe Products, Made Safely!          Safe Products Now!
Protect Our Children!                       I Want Safe Products!
E-mail us:
Send the following to info@healthytomorrow.org:
Your photo (attach)
Your message:
Your name:
Address:
Phone:
The name of your Representative (if you know it):
The name, address, representative of anyone else in the picture

If you have not yet called your Rep. about the Safer Alternatives bill sign on letter:
Phone number: Dial 617-722-2000 (House switchboard)
Ask for: The Representative’s legislative aide
Tell them: I am a constituent of Representative ____________ and I’m calling in support of S-2481 – The Safer Alternatives Bill.  I’m calling to ask him/her to sign on to Rep. Eldridge’s letter in support of the bill.  If they can’t tell you right then whether or not the Rep. will sign on say: I’d like to get a call back to find out whether the Representative decided to do this or not.

Or, if your Representative is Jamie Eldridge, Tom Conroy, Steven Kulik, Jay Kaufman (the bill sponsor), or Frank Smizik (Chair of the Environment Committee) thank them for their support and hard work on this bill!

If you don’t know who your Representative is you can find out at www.wheredoivotema.com.  Enter your address and then look for “Representative in General Court.”

Thank you for your commitment to getting toxics out of products.
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Katy Krottinger, Clean Energy Coordinator
Clean Water Action
262 Washington St., Suite 301
Boston, MA 02108
617-338-8131, x211: phone
617-338-6449: fax
kkrottinger@cleanwater.org

Check out Clean Water Action's video, 'Contaminated Without Consent'

*BEAT Note: This is an issue that we can do something about! speak up and help to protect your family and your community from the harmful effects of exposure to toxic chemicals. Remeber, we will all suffer the same consequences--make your actions count and your voices heard! return to top

New for Spring, and maybe just for this next month, Green Drinks in Great Barrington will happen on the first Wednesday, May 7th, at Route 7 Grill.

Route 7 Grill is just the place we should gather with spring bursting forth! It's the best restaurant around for locally-grown dining, and that's the topic of our meet-up next week: the new growing season & all things 'local ag.' Folks from Berkshire Grown will be there, local growers, and hopefully you, too, to chat about what's coming up in the garden. And whatever else you want to talk about, of course.

So please plan to join the staff of Orion magazine/Orion Grassroots Network and dozens of others in the region interested in all things green at the Route 7 Grill, May 7th, from 5:15 on.

Route 7 Grill is on, well, Route 7 (#999 Main Street), in Great Barrington, just north of the Sheffield line. Call them at 528-3235 for more info.

Green Drinks is a monthly social event for folks interested in everything from environmental education to local agriculture, the arts, green business & design, and the ways all of these intersect. Come share what you're working on and meet others active in the community. 

We'll be back at the Brewery in June and probably July, too, on first Tuesdays.

And please pass this on to a friend or three! See you soon.

Erik
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Erik Hoffner
Orion Grassroots Network
888-909-6568
http://www.orionsociety.org/ogn

The Orion Grassroots Network provides services and support to 1,200 grassroots organizations engaged in ecological, social, and cultural change. 
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Conservation Land Grants - DCS is seeking applications for the FY09 Local Acquisition for Natural Diversity (LAND) Program (formerly the Self-Help program). The LAND Program provides funds to municipal conservation commissions for the purchase of conservation land. A “How To” grant workshop will be held on May 21 from 10:00 a.m.-noon at 100 Cambridge Street, Boston. Please RSVP to Nicole Sicard at nicole.sicard@state.ma.us. For more information, please visit LAND Program web page. Applications are due by July 15.
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Parks Grants - EEA’s Division of Conservation Services (DCS) is seeking applications for the FY09 Parkland Acquisition and Renovation for Communities (PARC) Grant Program (formerly the Urban Self-Help program). The PARC Program assists communities with the acquisition of parkland, as well as construction of new parks and renovation of existing parks. A “How To” grant workshop will be held on May 21 from 10:00 a.m.-noon at 100 Cambridge Street, Boston. Please RSVP to Melissa Cryan at melissa.cryan@state.ma.us. For more information, please visit the PARC Grants web page. Applications are due by July 15.
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Job Opening - Adopt-A-Stream Coordinator Riverways Program, Boston - Application Deadline May 20, 2008

Click here for more information on the position 

Click here for more info on the Adopt-A-Stream Program and here for more info on the Riverways Program.
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