Cleaner AirWaterFoodProducts
AND LEADERS WHO PUT HEALTH FIRST
Imagine… Less Cancer. Fewer children with learning disabilities and asthma. Immune systems that can cope with infections like COVID-19. Imagine making homemade bread, the most basic and traditional of recipes, without worrying about a list of hidden concerns.
Imagine how much healthier we could all be if we had a government that was dedicated to protecting everyone’s health, including protecting all of us from toxic chemicals—drinking water without lead or PFAS, air without particulates pollution, food and products free of BPA, phthalates and flame retardants.
Clean air, water, food and products are human health rights, not an expensive shopping list.
The organizations on the Recipes for Health website are all working for everyone’s right to a healthy environment and safe food and products. On November 3, we need to elect leaders who take these rights – and their responsibility for prioritizing the health of all of us – seriously.
It’s a two-part recipe: grassroots action and the election of women and men who share the vision of a healthier, less toxic future for everyone.
Your support of these organizations and your vote in the November election are both necessary ingredients in the recipe for healthier lives.
Organizations Cooking Up Change
For the past 20 years, Coming Clean has brought together a coalition of environmental health and justice organizations to advocate around common causes and win better protection of public health. Currently representing 175 organizational members, together our network demands immediate action and systemic changes to ensure the safety of communities, farms, food, consumer goods, facilities, and the chemicals we are exposed to every day.
Our ‘recipe’ combines various types of expertise – from grassroots organizing to scientific, legal, or technical knowledge – to collaboratively build campaigns from the bottom up, grounded in grassroots priorities. Through building equitable relationships, facilitating principled collaboration between members, and holding each other accountable to winning tangible benefits that leave no one behind, our network is able to advocate for systemic solutions, bigger than any of us could win alone.
Breast Cancer Prevention Partners works to prevent breast cancer by eliminating our exposure to toxic chemicals linked to the disease. 1 in 8 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime. Most people don’t realize that only 10% of breast cancer cases are due to genetics and that a definitive body of science links the disease to chemicals in our environment. Our recipe for change:
- We start with the scientific evidence linking chemicals to breast cancer and connect the dots to exposures in our everyday lives.
- We educate the public about how to reduce their risk and advocate for laws that create systemic change.
- We change the market by increasing consumer demand for non-toxic products, lifting industry leaders who make safer products and holding industry laggards accountable who don’t.
- We work to enact public health policies that reduce chemical exposures to protect everyone.
Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HBBF) is a collaboration of nonprofit organizations, scientists and donors that came together in 2014 to solve the solvable part of the silent epidemic of learning and developmental deficits that impact as many as one in six children in the U.S.
Lead in Water Test Kit
80% of homes have lead in their drinking water. This test kit’s three water samples and personal action report tells you how to reduce the lead, whether it’s coming from your fixtures, home pipes or city pipes. Order a kit and test your water.
Bright Cities
The Bright Cities program provides grants of up to $35,000 to city governments and community-based partners to equitably reduce their community’s exposures to neurotoxic chemicals that interfere with all babies’ brain development. Ask your local leaders to join Bright Cities.
Safer States is a network of diverse environmental health coalitions and organizations in states around the country that share a bold and urgent vision of healthy, resilient communities.
Safer States works in partnership with Toxic-Free Future, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families and Mind the Store toeliminate our toxic PFAS contamination problem as well educate consumers about its use in nonstick products.