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@BeyondPinkTEAM#IgnitetheCancerConversation
Tonight’s EmceeKristin Teig Torres, M.A.Director of Community EngagementCCE Service‐Learning CoordinatorWartburg College
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Thank you for sponsoring tonights’sevent!
Thank you, Hy‐Vee & Coca‐Cola, for providing refreshments for tonight's event!
The Vision
To ignite the cancer conversation by going beyond discussions limited to awareness, early detection, and treatment.
To develop concrete steps that address prevention and eradication of all cancers. Attendees will leave with a better understanding of how many environmental factors impact our health, awareness of choices
they can make for their own health and the health of future generations.
To bring diverse communities together and activate the conversation that will initiate and develop concrete steps to conquer cancer.
The Mission
The Goal
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Tonight’s Agenda• Radon: A Serious Problem With a Simple Solution
• Iowa Pesticides
• Iowa Water
• Bringing It all Together: What You Can Do
• Q & A
• Current Reality/Desired State: Taking Action
• Next Steps and Keeping Connected
Q & A Guidelines• Use index cards at your table to write questions as they occur to you.
• Write each question on a different card.
• Include the speaker to whom it is directed.
• Hold up your card immediately for our helpers to collect.
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Radon: A Serious Problem Witha Simple SolutionGail Orcutt, M.A.Retired TeacherRadon Advocate: Iowa Cancer Consortium, American Lung Association, American Cancer Society, Cancer Action Network
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Iowa Radon Hotline1.800.383.5992
for answers to questions, to order a test kit,
or order some booklets
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Possible goals:
● Test your home and mitigate if necessary.
● Share what you’ve learned with family and friends.
● Order booklets to share.
● Email your legislators and demand action.
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Be a Good Neighbor
Dr. Kamyar Enshayan, Ph.D.Director of the Center for Energy & Environmental Education University of Northern Iowa
Good Neighbor IowaProtecting Child Health, Water, and Biodiversity
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On the left: Fertilizer and herbicide applied annually.
On the right: no herbicide, no fertilizers applied in decades.
Ecosystem & Human Health Problem:
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Some lawn areas could be planted into Iowa native prairie plants
Canada! Since 2008, no cosmetic use of lawn pesticides; 80% reduction in concentration of lawn herbicides in streams (a park near Toronto, Ontario)
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A school near Toronto, Canada
We want to work with:SchoolsParksChildcare centersInstitutions
Action:
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Looking for partners in Iowa communities
Looking for partners in communities across Iowa
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Know Your Water asa Foundation for Health Catherine Zeman, Ph.D.Professor Environmental HealthSchool of Kinesiology, Allied Health and Human ServicesUniversity of Northern Iowa
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Water Source
National Center Health StatisticsMapped by CNN 2017
Water Shed
• Hydrologic Cycle• 2.5 % potential potable water
• Natural rock weathering• Concentration of pollutants
• Biomagnification
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Public vs. Private
• Clean Water Act, CWA (1972)• Protecting water sheds
• NPDES
• Storm water control
• Spill control and countermeasures
• Wetland management (404 permitting)
• Safe Drinking Water Act, SDWA (1974)• MCL (87) vs. MCLGs
• Health and safety vs. Economics (700/year)
• The MCLs are evaluated every 6 years
New Chemicals vs. MCLs
New MCLs
What is in your water?• Public Water, SDWA
• Yearly water quality report.
• Summary report via DNR or individual utilities, ex: Cedar Falls• 91.5% of Iowans
• 1,878 systems (93% of which serve pops of 3,000 or less)
• 93% compliance with health based standards
• Private Water• Grants to counties testing options.
• 8.5%
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Exposure means what?
• Mass/volume• ppm = part per million or mg(s)/ liter
• ppb = part per billion or ug(s)/liter [smaller]
• ppm or ppb X volume consumed X frequency of consumption
• SDS, safety data sheet
• ATSDR, toxprofiles
• IARC, chemical profiles
The Good and The Bad
• Existing regulations• IA, Groundwater Protection (1987)
• Grants to Counties
• Leopold
• CHEEC
• IWRC
• Renewal of TSCA• Bipartisan, July 2016
• Regulations under attack as “anti‐business”
• Smart environmental policy being derailed
• Climate• Rural water system funding• Nitrate action• FIFRA rulings overturned• TSCA provisions not funded
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The Choice(s) Before Us• Continue in the current paradigm
• The blubber of belugas and the cord blood of minority infants illustrate the reality of watersheds and hydrologic cycles – there is no “away”
• You cannot buy yourself into a clean environment when your watershed or groundwater are seriously contaminated
• Awaken and renewal• Green technology coupled with biomimicry
• Energy, food production, manufacturing and waste management, embrace disruptive technology
• Invest now for future generations
• Prevention is less expensive that treating the problem• Why are we doing things this way?
• What other solutions exist?• Why not invest in prevention first?
Example: Glyphosate , A Signing Ceremony
Mealor and Kniss, 2017Weed Scientists,Univ. Wyoming
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A New Economy, A New Future
Peter Diamandis and Steven KotlerAbundance: The Future is Better than You Think (2014)
• Discusses the big human development and environment trends and disruptive technologies
• Efficiency
• Standard of Living
• Pollution
Awareness and Action
Awareness
• Learn more about these issues and communicate that with others, triangulate for truth
• Promote a systems thinking approach
• Ask questions of leadership and ask them to account for their decisions and actions from a health and wellbeing perspective
Action
• Be involved with communityengagement organizations
• Support common sense, preventive regulations
• Be involved with your local BOH and ask that they emphasize preventive medicine approaches
• Elect individuals that will reflect these values and not prioritize excessive self‐interested profit over community wellbeing
• Eat right (onions, broccoli, red cabbage, carrots) and de‐stress
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Tonight’s Agenda• Radon: A Serious Problem With a Simple Solution
• Iowa Pesticides
• Iowa Water
• Bringing It all Together: What You Can Do
• Q & A
• Current Reality/Desired State: Taking Action
• Next Steps and Keeping Connected
Bringing It All Together:What You Can DoCatherine Zeman, Ph.D.ProfessorHealth Promotion & EducationUniversity of Northern Iowa
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Current Reality/Desired State: Taking ActionLori Seawel, M.A.Instructional Designer &Technology CoordinatorUniversity of Northern IowaEducation Chair, Beyond Pink TEAM
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Levels of Action
Personal levelFamily levelCommunity levelNational levelInternational level
See booklet forexamples of each.
Current Reality/Desired State: Taking ActionGoal 1: for yourself
Goal 2: for your community
Goal 3: for future generations
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Current Reality/Desired State1. In your table groups –
Select roles:• Timekeeper• Recorder• Facilitator
Current Reality/Desired State2. Individually –
• Think back to the goals mentioned by the speakers.
• On scrap paper, WRITE DOWN any goals that have already resonated with you.
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Current Reality/Desired State3. In table groups –
• BRAINSTORM additional ideas of goals that would address the various levels.
• RECORD ideas on the LARGE POST‐ITS. (Please leave at your table for us when the event ends.)
Current Reality/Desired State4. Individually –
• ADD any new ideas that resonate with you TO YOUR LIST on scrap paper.
• SELECT 3 GOALS from your scrap paper list to WRITE in the three boxes on the CURRENT REALITY/DESIRED STATEaction plan.
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Current Reality/Desired State5. Work together or alone –
• Begin to add ACTION STEPS for your goals. • You may wish to try to find someone who
selected one or more goals similar to yours.
Current Reality/Desired State6. Each person at the table –
• BRIEFLY SHARE ONE OF YOUR GOALS AND ITS ACTION STEPS with the others at your table.
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In Conclusion
Kristin Teig Torres
Next Steps…• Tonight we’ve extended the cancer conversation by addressing problems in our environment.
• Now we challenge you to take action.
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Keeping Connected…
@BeyondPinkTEAM#IgnitetheCancerConversation
Resources…Visit:
http://beyondpinkteam.org
Click on the Ignite logo
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Thank you for sponsoring tonights’sevent!
Thank you, Hy‐Vee & Coca‐Cola, for providing refreshments for tonight's event!
A special thank you to…Beyond Pink TEAM members and volunteers, theNational Breast Cancer Coalition, the Iowa Cancer Consortium, and the Iowa Department of Public Health, along with contributions from various individuals and businesses to make this eventpossible!
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