Resources
Alliance Partners: Wellesley Cancer Prevention Project
Purpose: The purpose of the Alliance partners is to grow partnerships with other non-profits with a similar mission statement; thus, allowing for the sharing of initiatives to increase information and resources available to our WCPP supporters.
Alliance Partner Groups
Partner Group | Local, State or National | Partner Link |
TURI | State | www.turi.org |
The Friends of Brookside | Local | www.friendsofbrookside.org |
Wellesley Hills Junior Women’s Club | Local | www.whjwc.org |
Healthy Wellesley | Local | www.ci.wellesley.ma.us |
Wellesley Garden Clubs | Local | www.gcfm.org |
Silent Spring | National | www.silentspring.org |
Safe Cosmetics | National | www.ewg.org/skindeep |
Wellesley Health Dept | Local | www.wellesleyma.gov |
15-40.org | State | www.15-40.org/ |
Alliance for Healthy Tomorrow | National | www.healthytomorrow.org/ |
Beth Israel Mass General Hospital Tufts Medical Center Dana Farber Cancer Institute |
State | www.bidmc.org/ www.massgeneral.org/ www.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/ www.dana-farber.org/ |
Newton Wellesley Hospital & Vernon Cancer Center | Local | www.nwh.org/www.nwh.org/cancer |
Council of Wellesley PTOs Presidents | Local | www.pawspto.org |
Science & Environmental Health Network | National | www.sehn.org |
Healthcare without Harm | National | www.noharm.org |
Green Decade Newton | Local | www.greendecade.org |
Sustainable Wellesley | Local | www.sustainablewellesley.com |
Wellesley Mothers Forum | Local | www.wellesleymothersforum.com |
Mass Climate Action Network | State | www.massclimateaction.org |
Wellesley Free Library | Local | www.wellesleyfreelibrary.org |
Environmental Working Group | National | www.ewg.org |
Mass Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC) | State | www.mbcc.org |
Wellesley Interfaith Group | Local | |
EPA Northeast | Regional | www.epa.gov/ |
Health and the Environment Links
Women’s Voices for the Earth -
www.womensvoices.org
Safer Chemicals/Healthy Families -
www.saferchemicals.org
Healthy Child Healthy World - www.healthychild.org
Environmental Working Group - Cutting Edge Research on Health and the Environment
- www.ewg.org (Includes the link to the Safe Cosmetics interactive website, used in our Personal Care Products seminar.)
Environmental Health Perspectives – Information about environmental exposures that may affect health. References to use of products - ehp03.niehs.nih.gov
Environmental Health & Toxicology - www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro.html
Center for Disease Control - www.cdc.gov
The Silent Spring Institute
- www.silentspring.org/
The Massachusetts Health and Environment Information System
- www.silentspring.org/our-research/health-and-environmental-mapping/massachusetts-health-and-environment-information-syste
Toxics Use Reduction Institute
- www.turi.org
Toxics Action Center - Cleaning Up and Preventing Pollution
- www.toxicsaction.org
Skin Deep: Cosmetics Safety Database produced by the Environmental Working Group - www.ewg.org/skindeep
GoodGuide: Green, Healthy & Safe Product Ratings & Reviews
- www.goodguide.com
Healthy Food Pledge
- www.noharm.org/us_canada/get_involved/#pledge
Green Guide for Healthcare
- www.gghc.org
Cancer Links
American Cancer Society
- www.cancer.org
American Institute for Cancer Research
- www.aicr.org
Breast Cancer - www.breastcancer.org
Cancer Support Community - www.cancersupportcommunity.org/
Multiple Myleoma Research Foundation - www.themmrf.org/
Prevent Cancer Foundation - www.preventcancer.org
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
- www.komen.org
The Cancer Prevention Society
- www.cancerpreventionsociety.org/
Prostate Cancer Research Institute - www.prostate-cancer.org/pcricms/
Prostate Treatment Guide - www.prostate-cancer.com/
Pesticides Links
Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards - www.sustainable.org/governance/waste-and-toxics-management
EPA - Office of Pesticide Programs
- www.epa.gov/pesticides
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides - www.pesticide.org
Pesticide Action Network - www.panna.org/
Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database - www.pesticideinfo.org
Pesticides Research Report: Do Pesticides Cause Lymphoma? - www.lymphomahelp.org/report.pdf
Wellesley Pesticide Awareness Campaign - home.comcast.net/~little.sarah/
The Environmental Working Group’s website regarding Pesticides in Food, including a guide to Produce: - www.foodnews.org/
Meat Eaters Guide: Know where your meat and dairy come from - breakingnews.ewg.org/meateatersguide/interactive-graphic/
Directories of Chemicals and Other Toxins Links
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) -
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
Lindane Education and Research Network -
www.lindane.org
National Antimicrobial Information Network - Oregon State University and Environmental Protection Agency -
npic.orst.edu.htm
Massachusetts Department of Agriculture: Pesticides -
mass.gov/agr/pesticides/
Environment - Land and Water
Charles River Watershed Association - Protecting the Charles River -
www.crwa.org
Greenpeace -
www.greenpeace.org
Massachusetts Audubon Society - Protecting Massachusetts Nature -
www.massaudubon.org
Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group -
www.masspirg.org
The Nature Conservancy - Preserving the Earth’s Last Great Places -
www.nature.org
The Sierra Club - Protect the Planet -
www.sierraclub.org
The Trustees of Reservations - Conserving and Protecting Land -
www.thetrustees.org
Chemicals in Personal Care Products Links
Skin Deep: Cosmetics Safety Database produced by the Environmental Working Group - www.ewg.org/skindeep
Just a Pretty Face: A website produced by Stacy Malkan, the author of the book with the same title -
www.notjustaprettyface.org/
Organic Divas: A website devoted to the premise that not all personal care products are equal -
www.organicdivas.com/
Other Links
Art because - Funding Research into the Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer -
www.artbecause.org
Co-op America - Using Consumer and Investor Power for Social Change - www.greenamerica.org
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility -
www.igc.org/psr
Pan Mass Challenge -
www.pmc.org
We Can Row - A Wellness and Recovery Program - www.wecanrowboston.org
Books
- Not Such a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry - Stacy Malkan
- Tiny Game Hunting: Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden - Hilary Dole Klein and Adrian M. Wenner
- No Family History: The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer - Sabrina McCormick
- Living Downstream: A Scientist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment - Sandra Steingraber
- Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story - Theo Colburn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers
- Building a Healthy Lawn: A Safe and Natural Approach - Stuart Franklin
- Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
- Dead Daisies Make Me Crazy: Garden Solutions Without Chemical Pollution - Loren Nancarrow, Janet Hogan Taylor
- Organic Pest Control for Home and Garden - Tom Roberts
- Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards - Rachel Carson Counsel Inc.
- Poisoned for Profit “How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically Ill” - Alice and Philip Shabecoffe http://www.poisonedforprofit.net/