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Greening Your Home Series
Presented by the EHW Affordable Green Housing Center
Learn how to make your home energy efficient and healthy.

October 16, 23, 30, November 6; 7-9pm
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Purchase Compact Florescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) and Support EHW
Buy Compact Florescent Light Bulbs through a local distributor and save money, use less energy and support EHW. Click here for more information.
Fact sheet on CFLs

Environmental Health Watch Launches Affordable Green Housing Center
EHW introduces a major new program promoting healthy, affordable green housing. Click here to learn about this initiative.

Be Part of the Climate Change Solution

From the GreenCityBlueLake Institute, here are 10 things you can do to reduce your impact, actually save money in the long run, and improve your quality of life.

New Level of Childhood Lead Poisoning Awareness

Health Departments in Cuyahoga County recommend a new "level of awareness" for elevated blood lead in children. The new threshold recognizes that more than 6,500 children in Cleveland (about 40% of those tested) and more than 1,200 children in the first ring suburbs (about 22% of those tested) may be hurt by lead.


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Generating Energy, Generating Jobs: Ohio could gain more than 22,000 jobs from renewable energy investments. Policy Matters Ohio is the local partner for the Apollo Alliance, a bold national campaign to make our country energy - independent within a decade.

Cockroaches are the source of potent, ubiquitous and persistent allergens that can trigger asthma attacks. See our Cockroach Control Guide and other roach control material.


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Death by Degrees: The Emerging Health Crisis of Climate Change in Ohio

This report was prepared by Physicians for Social Responsibility to alert Ohio residents to the potential damaging health effects of climate change and to encourage them to reverse global warming’s deadly course by reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

 

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Ohio Citizen Action released its "Citizens' Audit" of the Mittal Steel Cleveland Works. The audit is called "Smoke and Mirrors: Mittal Steel's Playbook to Cover Up Their Pollution."



 

   
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