Cancer: 101 Solutions, Prevent Cancer Now, Living Downstream and CASLE
CASLE was the focus of blogs about environmental responsibility. The blog series was written by Liz Armstrong, and was part of release of the movie Living Downstream – an eloquent and cinematic documentary film movie based on the acclaimed book by ecologist and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. The movie’s creators asked CASLE to partner with them during its release tour. CASLE and EHANS hosted the Halifax leg of the national release tour.
Co-author, Liz Armstrong, of the book, Cancer: 101 Solutions, 2007, which listed CASLE as a resource on p.97, also featured CASLE in the blog series about environmental responsibility.
When Cancer: 101 Solutions was launched at the Prevent Cancer Now Conference in Ottawa, CASLE president K. Robinson was asked to present a session on Healthy Schools and to introduce Less Toxic Living expert Debra-Lynn Dadd.
The Walking Upstream – Living Downstream blog links about CASLE:
https://www.livingdownstream.com/blogs/change/the_bedroom_as_boardroom_karen_robinson_casle
https://www.livingdownstream.com/blogs/change/all_aboard_for_healthy_schools
Liz Armstrong, the blogs’ author was also co-organizer of the organization Prevent Cancer Now, which is currently (2021) headed by Dr. Meg Sears.
Dr. Meg Sears wrote a landmark report for the Canadian Human Rights Association, entitled The Medical Perspective on Environmental Sensitivities, 2007: http://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/sites/default/files/envsensitivity_en.pdf
(CASLE’s success in identifying and achieving positive actions regarding Indoor Air hazards in schools is noted on Page 46.)
The CHRC policy was confirmed in January 2014, and is available here:
http://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/sites/default/files/policy_sensitivity_0.pdf
The CHRC Legal Perspective:
http://www.chrc-ccdp.ca/sites/default/files/legal_sensitivity_en_1.pdf
Prevent Cancer Now is a Canadian national civil society organization including scientists, health professionals and citizens working to stop cancer before it starts, through research, education and advocacy to eliminate preventable causes of cancer.
For additional information, contact:
Meg Sears, PhD
Chair and Science Advisor, Prevent Cancer Now