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PSR Iowa installation of materials including posters, pamphlets, and assorted resources for more information about related topics: climate and health; climate and infectious disease; climate and clean water, etc.
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APHA and ecoAmerica are partnering to offer the Climate for Health Ambassadors Training Program. Join us for a free, interactive 4-hour training that will cover the links between climate and health, the spectrum of solutions, speaking effectively on the topic, and opportunities to act and advocate.
Upon completion of the full training and signing the Climate for Health Ambassadors Agreement (optional), public health professionals (and students!) will be given Climate for Health Ambassador designation. These leaders will be invited to be listed publicly as trained leaders who are available to present on climate and health.
This is the third session of the series: Now, More Than Ever: Movement Building for Climate, Racial, and Health Justice. There has never been a more critical time for advancing health, equity and social justice while addressing climate change. This session will focus on the synergies between climate and racial justice movements and their promise in improving health, and community-based advocacy and policy initiatives to promote climate and racial justice in California and beyond.
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS; Veronica Garibay, MPA; Daniel Lowenstein, MD; Rupa Marya, MD; Amee Raval, MS; Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH; Alvaro S. Sanchez, MUP; Sheri Weiser, MD, MPH, MA
Please join PSR Iowa for an important live-stream event this Thurs. Morning, July 15th at 10:00 AM CT. We’ll join colleagues and friends from across Iowa calling for significant national investments in electric vehicles (EVs) and clean transportation infrastructure.
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Iowa will host Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller, State Representative Marti Anderson, Des Moines City Council member Josh Mandelbaum, Karin Stein of Moms Clean Air Force and myself discussing the urgent need for robust investments in EVs and clean transportation infrastructure as originally proposed by the Biden Administration.
Such an investment is essential to reducing air pollution, improving public health, reducing our Climate impact while creating good paying jobs in Iowa. The recent E-transit bus pilot program being run by the Des Moines Area Regional Transit Authority (DART) is an example of how these investments can reduce carbon pollution and improve air quality for all Iowans, especially Iowa’s most vulnerable communities.
Plan to join the Call for Clean Transportation Investments via the PSR Iowa Chapter Facebook page at 10am on Thursday. Questions? Please contact info@psriowa.org.
Chicago PSR is pleased to announce our summer webinar on the health and climate change benefits of building electrification (BE). BE promotes use of clean energy rather than natural gas to power buildings, old and new.
Join us for a webinar on Monday, August 2 at 5:00pm Central Time. Our webinar will feature these speakers:
- Emma Hines of RMI will provide an overview of the current state of natural gas use in buildings and how we can switch to clean electricity
- Peter Orris, M.D., M.P.H., Chicago PSR Board President, will explain how indoor air pollution harms our health
- Daniel Robles of the Illinois Environmental Council will update us on legislative action currently in the works to help push Chicago towards a robust BE policy
Shine a Light, Stop the Hate, Lower the Heat
August 6 & 9, 9 am Pacific each day
Featuring speakers and musicians. Hybrid event – some virtual and a small presence at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab in the SF Bay area.
Sponsor: Tri-Valley CAREs