By providing strategies that can reduce individual and community consumption of natural resources, and by mobilizing consumers to seek sustainable choices, we aim to effect lasting protection of public health and the environment.
Women play a particularly transformative role.
When we organize as agents of change, in our homes and communities, the ramifications for the environment and human welfare can be profound. We allied ourselves with the Natural Resources Defense Council in a nationwide education campaign about the risks kids faced, more so than adults, from pesticide residues detectable in foods. Pesticides in the Diet of Infants and Children . In the summer of 1997, the Environmental Protection Agency announced its National Agenda to Protect Children from Environmental Threats, recognizing the increased risks children face from environmental toxins. It signals a tremendous breakthrough.