Jeff Conant, MA, Environmental Health, Hesperian Foundation, 1919 Addison Street #304, Berkeley, CA 94704, 510-845-1447, jeff@hesperian.org

Jeff Conant, Convener of the Environmental Justice Circle of the People’s Health Movement, will offer a framework for looking at issues of resource extraction (in this case oil), resource ownership (in this case water), and intellectual property rights around food policy as issues that impact both ecological wealth and the social being of the poor in particular, furthering the discussion of environmental justice and ecological health as interlinking areas for inquiry and action. He will further discuss actions taken by the Environmental Justice Circle to educate communities about environmental pollutants and what communities can do to change their communities into more sustainable and safe environments. Showing strategies that have worked in communities around the world bring understanding between and examples from communities from around the globe fighting against corporate polluters. The People’s Health Movement is a growing movement promoting this kind of networking and showing solidarity between communities in the developing world and the developed world working towards ending environmental toxins.

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss actions taken to educate communities about environmental pollutants
• Draw connections between the field of public health and industrial threats to local and global ecology.
• Identify opportunities to improve communication and coordination between efforts to promote health and promote environmental justice.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.