Student Curriculum: Recipes for Healthy Kids and a Healthy Environment: http://go.usa.gov/DCKx
This nine-lesson program was designed to excite kids about environmental health and empower them to take steps in their everyday lives to improve the environment for their community and reduce their environmental risk. The program is geared toward children ages 9 - 13.
Working with school representatives and fellow college students, OnCampus ecoAmbassadors implement projects from EPA programs to help green their campuses, promote environmental awareness and help carry out EPA's mission to protect human health and the environment.
EPA staff at Research Triangle Park offer a free resource that schools, universities, and community groups in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C. area can use to find and request U.S. EPA-RTP speakers for classes or events. Not in RTP? Then connect with EPA's Regional Environmental Education Coordinators around the country:http://go.usa.gov/DCAT
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Comments Due Sep 18: Draft Federal Strategy on Bed Bugs
Webinar Sep 24: EPA's online greenhouse gas data publication tool, FLIGHT
The management of bed bugs continues to pose a major challenge to state and local governments, private industry and the American public. EPA is inviting comment on the draft Federal Strategy on Bed Bugs which provides guidance for how the various levels of government can contribute to minimizing the negative effects of bed bug infestations on human health and the economy.
The draft Federal Strategy on Bed Bugs is available for public comment at www.regulations.gov in Docket# EPA-HQ-OPP-2013-0537. Comments will be accepted until September 18, 2013.
For more information on Bed Bug Control, please see the following bed bug resources:
On October 1, EPA's Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program will release its third year of detailed, facility-level greenhouse gas data from the largest stationary sources of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
On September 25, 1:00 pm ET, EPA will host a webinar on Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs). Join us for "Linking Nutrient Pollution and HABs: State of the Science and EPA Actions" the fourth in an exciting series of summer webinars about this worsening environmental problem and public health threat. Harmful algal blooms are a major environmental problem in all 50 states. Known as red tides, blue-green algae or cyanobacteria, harmful algal blooms have severe impacts on human health, aquatic ecosystems and the economy. To register for the webinar:
EPA Connect is EPA's new leadership blog. The blog highlights regular posts from EPA's leadership across the country, spanning all program areas on a range of important agency topics. http://blog.epa.gov/epaconnect/
By Asa Needle: Coordinator of Outreach and Education of the Worcester Roots Project, a non-profit dedicated to co-operative development, youth empowerment, and making neighborhoods safer for living, working, and playing.
The Environmental Justice in Action Blog is a resource for educating, communicating and engaging with government employees, external stakeholders and the broader public about the actions and ideas that stakeholders are using to advance the mission of environmental justice. http://blog.epa.gov/ej/
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