Tools for Action
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Tool Kits and Guides
These organizations offer actionable steps and advice for toxics-free living. Reach out to them for support on where you want to make a difference. There are several quality “healthy school programs” with Tool Kits for families, educators, and administrators to implement that make a difference in our children's health and education. These are our favorite science-based and proven effective healthy school program recommendations. We've also included some of the best tool kits we've found on dealing with toxics in our homes and lives. |
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Environmental Health Trust
Environmental Health Trust (EHT) is a think tank that promotes a healthier environment through research, education, and policy. Recursos en Español Sobre la Radiación del Teléfono Celular
Spanish Resources on Cell Phone Radiation |
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Theodora Scarato: EMF/Wi-Fi in School Health
NIH National Institutes of Health |
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Siting cell towers needs careful planning
Source: Michigan Technological University Summary: The health impacts of radio-frequency radiation (RFR) are still inconclusive, but the data to date warrants more caution in placing cell towers. An engineering team considers the current understanding of health impacts and possible solutions, which indicate a 500-meter (one third of a mile) buffer around schools and hospitals may help reduce risk for vulnerable populations. |
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5G Crisis
Thousands of published, peer-reviewed studies by independent scientists have demonstrated harm from exposure to radio-frequency (RF) microwave radiation. Serious human health problems include reproductive harm, neurological problems and cancer. Children and other vulnerable populations are particularly at risk. Read some of the most recent studies. Here's a link to their toolkits. 
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EMF Experts Directory
In this directory you can find service providers, vendors, individuals and companies. You may browse the listings and contact members of the directory whenever you need help or advice. |
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SB 649
FACTS successfully partnered with California Alliance for Safer Technology in this campaign by reaching out to parent groups throughout the state via email and social media to educate them about this bill. |
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Studies Reporting Disrupted Immune Function from Exposure to Low-Intensity Radiofrequency Radiation (Non-thermal)
From the work of Cindy Sage, MA, Sage Associates and Stephanie Kerst Certified Electomagnetic Radiation Specialist. March 27 2020 Bioinitiative.org
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Hold 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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Cleanups in My Community (CIMC) from the EPA enables you to map and list hazardous waste cleanup locations and grant areas, and drill down to details about those cleanups and grants and other, related information.
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Environmental Working Group (EWG)
The EWG covers a broad range of topics and gives practical advice on the best choices you can make. They cover everything from sunscreen to clean energy sources. Check out their Healthy Living App for ratings on more than 12,000 food and personal care products. |
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Children's Environmental Health Network
While always being a great resource for parents and caregivers, the CEHN has some timely toolkits on education. Many of these fun and educational activities can be done while schools are closed.
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Moms Advocating Sustainability
A Bay Area organization committed to creating healthy communities for children by reducing their exposure to household and environmental toxins. They advocate for pesticide-free policies and the use of nontoxic or safer alternatives at home as well as at the school-district, town, county and state level. MOMS Advocating Sustainability work primarily in Marin and through education and outreach to mothers and families, and also to policy makers, helping them to make better choices and providing information about effective alternatives. They provide toolkits for advocacy and action. |
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Lead Poisoning Prevention Ordinance from Cleveland, Ohio
Encourage your city council to adopt lead poisoning prevention measures for tenants. Use this ordinance from Cleveland, OH as an example to be emulated.
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Moms Across America
Moms Across America is a national coalition of moms whose motto is “Empowered Moms, Healthy Kids.” Their mission is to raise awareness about toxics exposure, empower leadership, and create healthy communities. They educate and inspire mothers and others to transform the food industry and environment. They support local activities, initiate campaigns and share solutions nationwide to improve our health and freedoms through the Toxin Free Town Campaign. |
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Moms Clean Air Force
A community of over 1,000,000 moms and dads united against air pollution – including the urgent crisis of our changing climate – to protect our children’s health. They provide members with reliable information and solutions through online resources, articles, action tools, and on-the-ground events. Moms & Mayors - A toolkit
Organize a Mom Power Summit to thank your mayor and city council for steps they have taken and encourage them to do more. |
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Estimated Annual Agricultural Pesticide Use
The United States Geological Survey has compiled a map of pesticide use in agriculture across the United States. "These pesticide-use estimates are suitable for evaluating national and regional patterns and trends of annual pesticide use. The reliability of estimates, however, generally decreases with scale and these estimates and maps are not intended for detailed evaluations, such as comparing within or between specific individual counties." |
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Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Healthy Schools, Healthy Kids Program offers templates, webinar resources, and a comprehensive schools website with resources to establish, maintain, or enhance a school environmental health program. What we love about this program is its comprehensive approach. It provides templates, apps, and curricular suggestions for no idling, indoor air quality, non-toxic chemical management, safe drinking water, heavy metals, integrative pest management, waste reduction, non-toxic classroom supplies, and public recognition. |
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Parents for a Safer Environment
Bay Area leaders in the effort to eliminate the use of unnecessary pesticides in Contra Costa County and reduce environmental toxic exposures to protect our children, wildlife, and the environment. They engage in and provide templates for requesting public records, ensuring schools and municipalities toxic usages and practices are transparent and accountable, engaging stakeholders, training municipalities, communities, schools, and the private sector on best practices in non-toxic pest management. |
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Sonoma County Conservation Action's Toxic Free Future Campaign
Sonoma County Conservation Action’s Toxic Free Future Campaign is working to eliminate synthetic herbicides from public spaces and schools throughout Sonoma County. We collaborate with SCCA’s Toxic Free Future Campaign and successfully partnered with Santa Rosa City School District to design and implement a least-toxic pest management plan that eliminates the use of synthetic pesticides on all 25 school campuses. They developed a Toolkit: Toxic Free Future Tools Training for community members who want to engage in inquiry, advocacy, and policy change. |
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The Center for Environmental Health has put together a Factsheet "Glyphosate (Roundup) and your Family".
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California's Travel Sized Toiletry Ban Bill AB 1162
Use the language from this California Bill banning travel sized toiletries as an example for your legislators. |
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The Center for Environmental Health
The Center for Environmental Health has some great resources for better food-ware choices. What is in our plates, plastic ware, take out containers and more affects our health. |
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Styrofoam Bans
Communities 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. 
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The Childsafe School
Provides a step-by-step framework to help parents, teachers and administrators make their schools as environmentally safe as they can be, by adopting policies that prohibit the idling of school buses and other vehicles, mandate the use of safe cleaning products, and eliminate the use of pesticides on school grounds and playing fields. What we love about this program is that it addresses wireless technology, advocates for organic pest management, and provides advocacy guides for families. |
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Center for Health, Environment and Justice: The Green Flag Program
A project of the national Child Proofing Our Communities Campaign. The program’s goal is to help communities make schools healthier while educating students about environmental issues. They offer a flexible three-step program with templates for environmental surveys, outreach letters to families, flyers and posters to help advance your school’s environmental behaviors. What we love about this program is the way it provides celebratory benchmarks along the way and recognition with the Green Flag of Environmental Leadership. |
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Children's Environmental Health Network's Eco-Healthy Child Care Program
A national program that partners with child care professionals to eliminate or reduce environmental health hazards found within or around child care facilities. They have a checklist that provides 30 easy-to-follow steps to reduce environmental health hazards in your child care facility. They address safe drinking water, waste reduction, and non-toxic playground equipment, classroom supplies, cleaning, pest and chemical management. They also offer STEM educational components. Child care providers who comply with 24 of these steps can become EHCC endorsed. |
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Green Schools Alliance
Whole-School Sustainability centers on the imperative that to be successful, schools need to incorporate sustainable solutions into their physical place, organizational culture, and educational programs. Green Schools Alliance develops innovative tools and programs, in collaboration with schools, to guide sustainability champions toward achieving this goal. |
