Stephen Ritz
"You can't be well read if your'e not well fed" where 37% of residences in his community are food insecure. Stephen insists that we "Vegucate" with "Endless resourcefulness" quoting Day "the biggest mistake is to play things very safe".
http://greenbronxmachine.org
http://at.progressive.com/apron-projects
http://greenapple.org
"Lets Make every space a learning Space"
The Green Centre for Green Schools
http://www.centerforgreenschools.org
Netzero: Energy Building certification
http://living-future.org/netzero
Living Building Challenge
http://living-future.org/lbc
Well: how interior environment creates maximium health of the occupants in that space
http://www.wellcertified.com/well
Green Schools
http://www.greenschools.ca
Annual Green Commuting Challenge
Captain Nichola Goddard School
Interesting video about how students methods of transportation to school has changed.
http://www.geekwire.com/2015/why-seattle-needs-better-public-transporation-in-one-eye-opening-gif/
Students who walk have better direction, better focus, better health, reduces traffic as parents drop off students. Driving to school causes high traffic, unsafe for students and staff walking into the school, and it increases the number of late students. Parents don't listen to principals.
"Your'e not stuck in traffic you are traffic."
Perceptions of distance and safety, culture of convenience, idle habits.
Project Drivers - National Data Active Healthy Kids 2014 Report Card D grade for transportation for Sedentary behaviors
Problem:
6 week challenge: getting school without getting in a vehicle
Methodology
collect data and present at Mayors Environmental Expo
"Individual, hubs, drop zones"
Grade 9 students acted as hub leaders to walk younger children to school
Private google account to access each students' closest hub address
Tracked weather conditions - work intensive
Results
80 in 2013, 200 in 2014, and 434 in 2015
Total distance and total offset graph
Analysis
What worked: homerooms tracked
What didn't work : requiring students to register, start up is still
Conclusion
Create app, that tracks all data, get parents more educated
Place Matters: Impacts of place
Dr. Bruce Lanphear
Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children's Hospital
"Little things Matter"
Autism, CD, LD, ADHD, Asthma, Preterm, overweight
Boyle C et. all 1994 Pediatrics
In 2010 Deaths from chronic disease
Autism
Weintraub K Nature 2011; 479:22-24
2009 1/110
Autism Research 90% of funding on treatment, 10% on prevention
Genes and the environment (Autism, ADHD)
Factors that impact development of disease
Environmental Disasters - placenta doesn't protect the fetus, the fetus is more vulnerable to toxins than developed cells.
Brain growth occurs over a longer duration than other organs - fetus and child may lack enzymes to detoxify contaminants.
Now its ppb that can be harmful not ppm as Rachel Carson said 50 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6KoMAbz1Bw
"NO ACCEPTABLE LEVEL?"
Cancer causing chemicals are regulated
after smoking ban 15% reduction in PTB Mackay DF, et al PloS Medicine 2012 :
Pregnant Women 95% were exposed to pesticides from ingestion of food, 10x toxic levels in infants = 151 grams in birth weight
Rauch SA etal EHP 2012
Pesticide and Insecticide use during Pregnancy and Leukemia
Turner MC et al. EHP 2010
causes proximity to roadside spraying, tobacco, paints and solvents
Just A et al. EHP 2012 Prenatal
Whyatt R et al EHP 2014
We have created environments that make it very difficult to get from one place to another therefore causing people to drive.
Karner et al. 2010 Environ Sci Tech = pollutants near roadways distance to roadways
Pope CA et al, Circulation 2009 air pollutants and death from heart disease
steepest incline on heart disease comes from minimal amounts
Roberts et al EHP 2013 Adjusted for maternal age Risk of autism by exposure of airborne metals
http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Trasande L et al Health Affairs 2011 76Billion lead 50billion $ cost
Cost of Lead $1 = $17 to $220 Gould E EHP 2009
Vaccines $1 = $16.5
There is evidence that lead is associated with altymers
Failure of toxicity Testing 3,000 high production chemicals 75% lack even the most basic toxicity tests Claudio L Toxicol Appl Pharm 2000/ Rice D Env Health Persp 1996 1996
If it is cost beneficial to prevent why don't we do it ? Because nobody knows how to capitalize on it.
Max Planck "Science advances 1 funeral at a time"
- "If we didn't evolve with it, avoid it"
- Things to do that prevent it (avoid it)
- avoid canned foods lining DES developed as an estrogenic drug.
- Avoid cosmetics, fingernail polish and lotions
- support bans on smoking in public spaces and cosmetic pesticides
- support efforts to update chemical management policies and reduce industrial pollutants
Nature as the Classroom
Hunter J 2009 Researching as if place mattered.
Winkle-Wagner R Hunter C Ortloff (2209) Bridging the gap between theory and practice in educational research
Mueller Worster & Abrams 2005 Sense of Place : Stewardship
Whispering Woods near Dr. E.W. Cofin
Peer Sharing in place using the interpretive signs with GPS co-ordinates
Ecological Pedagogy in an Outdoor Alphabet Diversity and Interrelationships
designing signs for the streakers, surfers, seekers,
Let people know about what we do, sharing, makes us more connected
