Tonights Emcee Kristin Teig Torres, M.A. Director of Community - PDF document

5/3/2017 @BeyondPinkTEAM #IgnitetheCancerConversation Tonight’s Emcee Kristin Teig Torres, M.A. Director of Community Engagement CCE Service‐Learning Coordinator Wartburg College 1

5/3/2017 Thank you for sponsoring tonights’s event! Thank you, Hy‐Vee & Coca‐Cola, for providing refreshments for tonight's event! The Vision To bring diverse communities together and activate the conversation that will initiate and develop concrete steps to conquer cancer. The Mission To ignite the cancer conversation by going beyond discussions limited to awareness, early detection, and treatment. The Goal 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. 2

5/3/2017 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. 3

5/3/2017 Radon: A Serious Problem With a Simple Solution Gail Orcutt, M.A. Retired Teacher Radon Advocate: Iowa Cancer Consortium, American Lung Association, American Cancer Society, Cancer Action Network 4

5/3/2017 Radon : a serious problem with a simple solution presented by Gail Orcutt 5

5/3/2017 Why should you care about radon ? 6

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5/3/2017 What can you do? every 2 years 8

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5/3/2017 idph.iowa.gov/radon 12

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5/3/2017 Iowa Radon Hotline 1.800.383.5992 for answers to questions, to order a test kit, or order some booklets 14

5/3/2017 I s your radon level acceptable? 15

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5/3/2017 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. 17

5/3/2017 Be a Good Neighbor Dr. Kamyar Enshayan, Ph.D. Director of the Center for Energy & Environmental Education University of Northern Iowa Good Neighbor Iowa Protecting Child Health, Water, and Biodiversity 18

5/3/2017 Ecosystem & Human Health Problem: On the left: Fertilizer and herbicide applied annually. On the right: no herbicide, no fertilizers applied in decades. 19

5/3/2017 An estimated 2860 pounds of 2,4 ‐ D Dicamba MCCP were applied in Cedar Falls in 2016. 20

5/3/2017 Awareness: 21

5/3/2017 Diverse lawns are beautiful 22

5/3/2017 Diversity is good … 23

5/3/2017 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) 24

5/3/2017 A school near Toronto, Canada Action: We want to work with: Schools Parks Childcare centers Institutions 25

5/3/2017 Looking for partners in Iowa communities Looking for partners in communities across Iowa 26

5/3/2017 Know Your Water as a Foundation for Health Catherine Zeman, Ph.D. Professor Environmental Health School of Kinesiology, Allied Health and Human Services University of Northern Iowa 27

5/3/2017 Water Source National Center Health Statistics Mapped by CNN 2017 Water Shed • Hydrologic Cycle • 2.5 % potential potable water • Natural rock weathering • Concentration of pollutants • Biomagnification 28

5/3/2017 Public vs. Private New Chemicals vs. MCLs • 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) New MCLs • The MCLs are evaluated every 6 years 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% 29

5/3/2017 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 • Regulations under attack as • IA, Groundwater Protection “anti‐business” (1987) • Smart environmental policy • Grants to Counties being derailed • Leopold • Climate • CHEEC • Rural water system funding • IWRC • Nitrate action • Renewal of TSCA • FIFRA rulings overturned • Bipartisan, July 2016 • TSCA provisions not funded 30

5/3/2017 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, 2017 Weed Scientists,Univ. Wyoming 31

5/3/2017 A New Economy, A New Future Abundance: The Future is Better Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler than You Think (2014) • Discusses the big human development and environment trends and disruptive technologies • Efficiency • Standard of Living • Pollution Awareness and Action Awareness Action • Learn more about these issues • Be involved with community engagement organizations and communicate that with • Support common sense, preventive others, triangulate for truth regulations • Promote a systems thinking • Be involved with your local BOH and approach ask that they emphasize preventive medicine approaches • Ask questions of leadership and • Elect individuals that will reflect ask them to account for their these values and not prioritize excessive self‐interested profit over decisions and actions from a community wellbeing health and wellbeing perspective • Eat right (onions, broccoli, red cabbage, carrots) and de‐stress 32

5/3/2017 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 Do Catherine Zeman, Ph.D. Professor Health Promotion & Education University of Northern Iowa 33

5/3/2017 Closing the Circle Q & A Facilitated by Kristin Teig Torres 34

5/3/2017 Current Reality/Desired State: Taking Action Lori Seawel, M.A. Instructional Designer & Technology Coordinator University of Northern Iowa Education Chair, Beyond Pink TEAM 35

5/3/2017 Levels of Action Personal level Family level Community level National level International level See booklet for examples of each. Current Reality/Desired State: Taking Action Goal 1: for yourself Goal 2: for your community Goal 3: for future generations 36

5/3/2017 Current Reality/Desired State 1. In your table groups – Select roles: • Timekeeper • Recorder • Facilitator Current Reality/Desired State 2. Individually – • Think back to the goals mentioned by the speakers. • On scrap paper, WRITE DOWN any goals that have already resonated with you. 37

5/3/2017 Current Reality/Desired State 3. 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 State 4. 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 STATE action plan. 38

5/3/2017 Current Reality/Desired State 5. 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 State 6. Each person at the table – • BRIEFLY SHARE ONE OF YOUR GOALS AND ITS ACTION STEPS with the others at your table. 39