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On May 11, 2009 the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and the Toward Tomorrow Initiative released A Common Agenda for Health and the Environment. CHE hosted a dynamic and inspiring call with leaders from different sectors who worked on this impressive document on Tuesday June 23, 2009 at 10 AM Pacific / 1 PM Eastern.
 
The Common Agenda is a call to action and articulates a collective commitment to six ambitious cross-cutting “Generational Goals” to ensure a healthy future for our children. Creating the Common Agenda involved nearly 100 leaders of the healthcare, community development, environmental, labor and agriculture community working together to imagine the world we want to leave our children and what it will take to get there within one generation.
 
Speakers provided an overview the Common Agenda, highlighted specific features of some of the “Generational Goals”, and described action steps we can take to achieve these goals.

Featured speakers:

• Polly Hoppin, ScD, Environmental Health Initiative Program Director, Lowell Center for Sustainable Production
• Molly Anderson, PhD, MS, Principal, Food Systems Integrity
• Paul Epstein, MD, MPH, Associate Director, Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School
  
• Lynn Thorp, National Program Coordinator, Clean Water Action
  
• Dick Jackson, MD, MPH, Professor and Chair, Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health 
  

The call was moderated by Elise Miller, CHE Director.

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UPDATE 6/24/09: Participate in Advancing the Common Agenda

Please help Toward Tomorrow and the Lowell Center promote A Common Agenda for Health and Environment in three ways:

Forward it to at least five people who you think can use it effectively. Uses of the Common Agenda and its Generational Goals include:

• Guideposts against which to assess proposed decisions in the public and private sectors
• Inspiration for attracting new allies
• An educational tool for outreach about the interconnections among health and environment issues, and the availability of solutions
• A standard for assessing candidates' platforms or track records
• New ideas for company, agency or communities policies and programs

Visit http://www.towardtomorrow.org to sign on as a supporter of A Common Agenda for Health and Environment and its Generational Goals

CAST YOUR VOTE: http://www.towardtomorrow.org/commonagenda.support.php to let Toward Tomorrow know which two Priority Actions you think are the most important near-term steps in developing a roadmap for a healthy future. These will guide the work going forward.

You can also visit Toward Tomorrow's Facebook page

Thank you.