Center for Environmental Health

Center for Environmental Health

Reusable Revolution: The Benefits of Reusable Foodware in Restaurants
Reusable Revolution: The Benefits of Reusable Foodware in Restaurants
Join the Center for Environmental Health as we dive into the many benefits of reusable foodware for restaurants. This webinar will showcase why reusable foodware is the best option for on-site din...
Exploring Greener Cleaners and Disinfectants
Exploring Greener Cleaners and Disinfectants
Selecting effective cleaning and disinfecting products is important for keeping the environment of your business or institution healthy. In a similar manner, selecting cleaning and disinfecting pro...
It All Adds Up: Toxic Chemicals and the Future of Women’s Health
It All Adds Up: Toxic Chemicals and the Future of Women’s Health
How does our makeup and skincare affect our health? What are the cumulative effects of toxic chemicals in our air, water, soil, food, and the products we use every day? How many of the women in our...
Environmentally Friendly Purchasing: A Tool for Cities, States, and Institutional Purchasers
Environmentally Friendly Purchasing: A Tool for Cities, States, and Institutional Purchasers
Many products available on the market today may contain harmful chemicals such as PFAS, PVC, or BPA. With this challenge comes opportunity and procurement departments are poised to utilize this pur...
Ditching Disposables 2.0: A Toolkit for Healthier Foodware in K-12 Schools
Ditching Disposables 2.0: A Toolkit for Healthier Foodware in K-12 Schools
K-12 students have every right to a safe and healthy learning environment. Every school year, K-12 school cafeterias across the United States serve over 5 billion lunch meals, often on single-use f...
How to avoid Teflon Flu
How to avoid Teflon Flu
⚠️ ‘Teflon Flu’ has been in the news lately. Here are our recommendations for avoiding coming down with Polymer Fume Fever: ✅ Check the labels on cookware. California recently passed a law requiri...
Webinar: School Foods Directors Discuss Plastic Reduction Measures
Webinar: School Foods Directors Discuss Plastic Reduction Measures
Calling all School Food Directors! Nationwide, school cafeterias use billions of single-use plastics each year. School Food Directors are perfectly placed to end this expensive, wasteful practice a...
Healthier Furniture, Healthier Workplaces: Newly Developed Resources for Office Furniture Purchasers
Healthier Furniture, Healthier Workplaces: Newly Developed Resources for Office Furniture Purchasers
Are you aware that there are a multitude of harmful chemicals that can be found in office furniture? From formaldehyde and other volatile organic chemicals that can lead to impaired breathing, to p...
Reusable Revolution: GreenScreen Certified Shifts Markets Toward Materials with Preferable Chemistry
Reusable Revolution: GreenScreen Certified Shifts Markets Toward Materials with Preferable Chemistry
Are you concerned that there might be harmful chemicals such as PFAS, BPA or styrene in your food packaging, containers or cookware and have been wondering how to identify products with environment...
Cancer-Causing Chemical in Dollar Store Soaps?
Cancer-Causing Chemical in Dollar Store Soaps?
❓ Did you know that dollar stores are selling soaps with a cancer-causing chemical? ⚠️ Our legal action from a decade ago ended the threat of Cocamide DEA in nearly all soaps and shampoos. 🗣️ We..
Community-Led Air Monitoring to Advance Environmental Justice in Paramount, CA
Community-Led Air Monitoring to Advance Environmental Justice in Paramount, CA
☣️ NO ONE should be forced to breathe polluted air. Unfortunately, this has been the case for far too long in the city of Paramount, CA, in Southeast Los Angeles. In a city that spans five squa...
Michael Green: An Audacious Legacy
Michael Green: An Audacious Legacy
Former staff, board members, partners, and allies reflect on CEH Founder Michael Green's 26-year legacy of protecting people, communities, and the planet from toxic chemicals. Music via Pixabay: "...
Meals that Heal: Bridging the Gap of Food Inequities at School
Meals that Heal: Bridging the Gap of Food Inequities at School
Across the United States, schools are going back to basics in the lunchroom–serving healthier food on better foodware. Meet some of the changemakers fighting against systemic problems like food ins...
Cape Fear Courage
Cape Fear Courage
1.5 million North Carolina residents have been exposed to toxic PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’ in their drinking water. And EPA is not protecting them. Alongside our partners at Clean Cape Fear, Cape F...
Exploring Flooring Part 2: Sustainable Alternatives
Exploring Flooring Part 2: Sustainable Alternatives
Flooring materials that are sustainable and non-toxic have come a long way in the past 10 years. The work of research institutions, like the Healthy Materials Lab, has advanced our knowledge of mat...
Exploring Flooring Webinar Part 1: Our Current Standard is Unsustainable
Exploring Flooring Webinar Part 1: Our Current Standard is Unsustainable
Flooring procurement can have a major impact on the health of your workforce, the health of fenceline communities, and the health of the environment as a whole. Join CEH in this two-part webinar se...
Ditching Disposables Webinar
Ditching Disposables Webinar
Changing school nutrition systems in accordance with county health departments can be challenging. That’s why Center for Environmental Health and Upstream Solutions have teamed up with the Durham C...