Current Campaigns
Here are some issues we’d like to raise awareness about. In each topic below find tools such as petitions, bills to contact your representative about, or legislation in effect to present to your own city to adopt. We are currently collaborating with various toxics awareness campaigns in Sonoma County and across California. Please email us so we can promote your local efforts!
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Unsafe at any G
"Unsafe at any G" is the rallying cry for the organization called Our Town, Our Choice which is a citizen journalist and advocacy organization that aims to preserve local control over Wireline and Wireless Broadband Infrastructure. We have successfully educated and lobbied at the Federal, State and Local levels to Tame the so-called “small” Wireless Telecommunications Facilities (sWTFs) Agenda. Please donate here to support our Washington, DC-based lobbying efforts. In Petaluma, CA they are currently opposing an antennae farm in a neighborhood near many schools. |
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Petition Pampers against "Smart Diapers"
Companies including Pampers are launching "smart high tech diapers" with sensors attached to diapers to sense wetness and track urine. The sensors work in concert with a Wi-Fi baby monitor and an app that lets parents keep track of their baby's diaper situation indicating when the baby needs to be changed. Parents need to know about safety considerations from electromagnetic exposure when buying wireless tech devices. |
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Stop 5G Sign PrintableHold up this sign at a City Council Meeting or use it as a mask. Let your representatives know you oppose the unchecked proliferation of 5G in your neighborhood and community spaces.
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Cell Towers and City OrdinancesCell Towers and City Ordinances
Read to see some recent City Urgency Wireless Facilities Ordinances and also their Ordinances at-a-Glance. |
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Guidelines on safer disinfectant use from the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit
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Collaborative on Health and the EnvironmentSeries Launch: Multifactorial Origins of Cancer, Case Studies of Environmental Chemicals and Cancer Risks, and a Systems Approach to Prevention
Dr. Barbara Cohn will then review some of the evidence for effects of environmental chemicals in pregnancy on cancer and cancer risk. Dr. Cohn will discuss the intersection between health disparities and environmental chemical exposure, as well as the importance of windows of susceptibility for exposures during development, and proof of concept studies for 3-generation effects of environmental exposures to pregnant women. Emerging evidence on current chemicals of concern, including per and poly per-fluorinated substances (PFAS) and the promise of new big data and ’omics will also be discussed with examples given. To conclude her presentation, Dr. Cohn will address opportunities for transdisciplinary collaboration to speed finding evidence needed for public health action.
Dr. Polly Hoppin will conclude presenting an overview of how cancer prevention research and practice largely focuses on three overlapping areas that envision the individual patient and her provider as the agents of change: precision prevention (e.g., genetic, social and other factors specific to an individual patient); genetics; and health behaviors. She will then discuss a fourth realm of prevention research and practice, targeting environmental and social factors over which the individual has little control, while governments, businesses, and communities do. These include environmental carcinogens in consumer products, workplaces, and air, water, and soil pollution. Dr. Hoppin will discuss what actions impede and hold promise for reducing exposure to environmental carcinogens at the scale needed and how a systems approach informs cancer prevention research and practice. |
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GASPGraton Against Synthetic Pesticides (GASP) is a coalition of concerned Graton, CA residents working together to eliminate the threat of pesticide exposure to our families, laborers and children who attend Oak Grove Elementary.
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Pesticide Free PetalumaPesticide Free Petaluma is a growing grassroots organization to urge our local officials to stop using pesticides in our local parks, fields, and public spaces.
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SASSSafe Ag Safe Schools (SASS) is a coalition of over 50 organizations and individuals working together to reduce the threat of pesticide exposure in the Monterey Bay area. SASS is focused on increasing grassroots pressure on policy-makers to reduce hazardous pesticide use in and around schools and residential communities.
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Styrofoam BansCommunities across the country have begun banning the use of Styrofoam in food packaging. You can make a difference in your town! Please download and edit the letter below to personalize it and send it to your mayor or representatives. Including the legislation below can help them as a starting point.
Ban in MaineBan in Sebastopol, CA | |||
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Toxic-Free Future CampaignThis collaborative is spearheaded by Sonoma County Conservation Action and includes local school representatives, government leaders, and community members.
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Healthy Schools Sonoma CountyThis is a partnership between FACTS and Daily Acts.
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