m of a National Childhood Cancer Prevention Initiative and Plan.
The Childhood Cancer Prevention Initiative is a growing collaboration that includes members of the Cancer Free Economy Network — American Sustainable Business Council, Center for Environmental Health, Children’s Environmental Health Network, Clean & Healthy New York, Clean Production Action, and the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production — as well as Helen R. Walton Children’s Enrichment Center, MadeSafe, the Max Cure Foundation, Naturepedic.
We are asking everyone to sign on at American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC) to support:
- Securing funding for cancer prevention research;
- Monitoring children’s exposures to toxic chemicals and pollution;
- Ensuring that all children have access to schools, playgrounds and childcare settings that are free from toxic substances.
- Businesses that create and use safer chemicals and products that don’t cause cancer or other illnesses for children.
- Public policies to regulate toxic chemicals and incentivize safe chemicals, materials and products.
“When I think of what my life was like growing up versus what it is now, the differences are very striking. We didn’t have an exterminator, we didn’t have herbicides for use in the garden. We didn’t have non-stick pans or plastics enveloping all of our food products. Infants do not smoke, drink alcohol or have stressful jobs. Are the rise in children’s cancers related to the ocean of chemicals in which we now live?”
— Dr. Margaret Kripke, Professor Emerita University of Texas – MD Anderson and former Panelist of the President’s Cancer Panel
Take Action, Say YES to Preventing Childhood Cancer
You can make a difference today:
- Donate to support our work to reduce the number of children and families facing this devastating diagnosis. Donations will be made through the Cancer Free Economy Network’s fiscal host, Clean Production Action, a 501(c)3 organization;
- Produce and purchase safer chemicals and products;
- Invest in prevention research;
- Advance public policy to incentivize safer chemicals and products;
- Support and expand regulations to reduce known causes;
- Share the Childhood Cancer Prevention Video to start a conversation with your friends and family;
- Use our Social Media Toolkit and share messages of support using #PreventChildhoodCancer in your social media posts to call attention to these critical efforts, and follow our progress;
- Download and share the One Pager in English and Español.