Thursday, June 24, 2021
2:00pm Eastern/11:00am Pacific
More time zones below.
Join us on June 24 for our webinar on the Children’s Environmental Bill of Rights.
The Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights (CDER) is partnering with Non-Toxic Neighborhoods (NTN) to launch a campaign to protect the health and well-being of children. The campaign is focused on working with communities across the United States to advance a model ordinance, the “Children’s Environmental Bill of Rights.”
This webinar will examine threats to the well-being of children, and how people and communities across the U.S. can adopt local laws which protect the environmental rights of children and prohibit the violation of those rights.
The webinar will feature three experts – CDER’s Thomas Linzey, Dr. Bruce Lanphear, and Kim Konte, founder of the ground-breaking organization Non-Toxic Neighborhoods.
Kim Konte is the founder of the national non-profit Non-Toxic Neighborhoods (NTN), and a Director of Jane Goodall’s youth service program. In 2015, Kim helped launch a campaign to raise awareness to protect children from pesticide use in her home town of Irvine, California. She worked with city staff to adopt a historic organically-driven landscaping policy in 2016. Kim has since assisted over 200 cities, counties, and school districts to ban glyphosate and advance organic and regenerative land management policies and legislation.
Dr. Lanphear, an advisor to NTN, is a Clinician Scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children’s Hospital, and Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is focused on helping to quantify and ultimately prevent disease and disability – like asthma, learning problems and ADHD – due to exposures to environmental contaminants and pollutants.
Thomas Linzey is Senior Legal Counsel at the Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights. He wrote the first municipal laws recognizing the legal rights of communities and nature, and has worked with hundreds of communities across the U.S. to advance the rights of people and the environment.
This event is free and will be held on Zoom. Register today!
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Time Zones:
Honolulu - 8:00am HST
Los Angeles - 11:00am Pacific
New York/Quito - 2:00pm Eastern
London - 19:00pm BST