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5/3/2017 @BeyondPinkTEAM #IgnitetheCancerConversation Tonights Emcee Kristin Teig Torres, M.A. Director of Community Engagement CCE ServiceLearning Coordinator Wartburg College 1 5/3/2017 Thank you for sponsoring tonightss event!

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5/3/2017 1 @BeyondPinkTEAM #IgnitetheCancerConversation

Tonight’s Emcee

Kristin Teig Torres, M.A.

Director of Community Engagement CCE Service‐Learning Coordinator Wartburg College

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Thank you for sponsoring tonights’s event!

Thank you, Hy‐Vee & Coca‐Cola, for providing refreshments for tonight's event!

The Vision

To ignite the cancer conversation by going beyond discussions limited to awareness, early detection, and treatment. 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. To bring diverse communities together and activate the conversation that will initiate and develop concrete steps to conquer cancer.

The Mission The Goal

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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.

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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

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Radon:

a serious problem with a simple solution

presented by Gail Orcutt

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Why should you care about radon ?

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What can you do?

every 2 years

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idph.iowa.gov/radon

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Iowa Radon Hotline 1.800.383.5992

for answers to questions, to order a test kit,

  • r order some booklets
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I s your radon level acceptable?

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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.

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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

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On the left: Fertilizer and herbicide applied annually. On the right: no herbicide, no fertilizers applied in decades.

Ecosystem & Human Health Problem:

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An estimated 2860 pounds of 2,4‐D Dicamba MCCP were applied in Cedar Falls in 2016.

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Awareness:

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Diverse lawns are beautiful

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Diversity is good …

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5/3/2017 24 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)

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5/3/2017 25 A school near Toronto, Canada

We want to work with: Schools Parks Childcare centers Institutions

Action:

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Looking for partners in Iowa communities

Looking for partners in communities across Iowa

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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

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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
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Public vs. Private

  • 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)
  • The MCLs are evaluated every 6 years

New Chemicals vs. MCLs

New MCLs

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%
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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
  • IA, Groundwater Protection

(1987)

  • Grants to Counties
  • Leopold
  • CHEEC
  • IWRC
  • Renewal of TSCA
  • Bipartisan, July 2016
  • Regulations under attack as

“anti‐business”

  • Smart environmental policy

being derailed

  • Climate
  • Rural water system funding
  • Nitrate action
  • FIFRA rulings overturned
  • TSCA provisions not funded
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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

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A New Economy, A New Future

Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler Abundance: The Future is Better than You Think (2014)

  • Discusses the big human

development and environment trends and disruptive technologies

  • Efficiency
  • Standard of Living
  • Pollution

Awareness and Action

Awareness

  • Learn more about these issues

and communicate that with

  • thers, triangulate for truth
  • Promote a systems thinking

approach

  • Ask questions of leadership and

ask them to account for their decisions and actions from a health and wellbeing perspective

Action

  • Be involved with community

engagement organizations

  • Support common sense, preventive

regulations

  • Be involved with your local BOH and

ask that they emphasize preventive medicine approaches

  • Elect individuals that will reflect

these values and not prioritize excessive self‐interested profit over community wellbeing

  • Eat right (onions, broccoli, red

cabbage, carrots) and de‐stress

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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

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Closing the Circle

Q & A

Facilitated by Kristin Teig Torres

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Current Reality/Desired State: Taking Action

Lori Seawel, M.A.

Instructional Designer & Technology Coordinator University of Northern Iowa Education Chair, Beyond Pink TEAM

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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In Conclusion

Kristin Teig Torres

Next Steps…

  • Tonight we’ve extended the cancer

conversation by addressing problems in our environment.

  • Now we challenge you to take

action.

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Keeping Connected…

@BeyondPinkTEAM #IgnitetheCancerConversation

Resources…

Visit: http://beyondpinkteam.org Click on the Ignite logo

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Thank you for sponsoring tonights’s event!

Thank you, Hy‐Vee & Coca‐Cola, for providing refreshments for tonight's event!

A special thank you to…

Beyond Pink TEAM members and volunteers, the National Breast Cancer Coalition, the Iowa Cancer Consortium, and the Iowa Department of Public Health, along with contributions from various individuals and businesses to make this event possible!

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Please complete your evaluation and leave at your table.

Thank you for coming!