2012 Events
Eco-Healthy Futures: for Child Care Centers: Training by inter-agency partnership (SE PA AHEC, PA IPM & DVAEYC) on greening.
Topics include: Green cleaning, preventive pest control and healthy, sustainable foods
PQAS credit hours awarded for Keystone STARS or DPW purposes.
February 22, 2012 - Norristown, Montgomery County, PA
Register today by calling Ashley Haneiko, DVAEYC, 215-893-0130, ext 237. Cost is $20 for a sustainable lunch and materials. Free raffle of Sun & Earth cleaning products for attendees.
2011 Events by WHEN
(Link to these events by clicking on the green.)
- Read about WHEN's inspiring story in the February 2011 Issue (pages 28 & 29) of Grid Magazine!
Food Matters: Clinical Education & Advocacy Training
4 US cities with national and local speakers
June 11, 2011, 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Thomas Jefferson University
Center City Philadelphia
For more information visit our Programs page under Healthy Food in Healthcare or www.HealthyFoodinHealthCare.org,
Global Warming & Seniors’ Health
WHEN was awarded an environmental justice grant from the US EPA with the goal to educate senior citizens about climate change and its impact on health, while offering methods to prepare for the changing environment and to minimize its negative effects. WHEN will debut its newest video at the free educational sessions held in partnership with NewCourtland Network. Attendees will be invited to join a small group to make presentations to other seniors in their communities.
Education Sessions:
May 26, 2011, 10-11:30 a.m., Center City Philadelphia
June 9, 2011, 10:30-12, Northwest Philadelphia
June 16, 2011, 1-2:30, South Philly
If interested in attending, please contact
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Download flyer here.
Internships available for the following programs:
Greening Childcare: Opportunity to research environmental subjects and curricula, provide guidance, and conduct onsite visits to assess environmental enhancements.
Food Matters: Come learn about the links between food and health while helping with logistics for the clinical training program this Spring.
Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Assist with surveying customers' actions on how they dispose of unwanted medicines.
Climate Change for Seniors: Help develop and deliver material on impacts of climate change to senior citizens.
WHEN Presents
2010...we had a busy year
reducing pharmaceuticals in water,
cooking up sustainability in healthcare kitchens,
educating over 5000 professionals and others through events, articles and internships,
getting rid of bottled water,
working in partnerships.
Previous Events:
Don't Flush Those Meds: Pharmaceuticals in Our Water
Learn about Water, Health & WHEN’s Programs in recognition of World Water Day
Identifying Stakeholders' Practices and Concerns About Pharmaceuticals: A Qualitative Study, Julie Becker, Ph.D., MPH, President and Founder, Women's Health & Environmental Network,, USA
Food Policy: The Health Effects of America's Corporate Controlled Food Industry. Dianne Moore, MS, MSW, will present on Clinical Advocacy.
- Earth Day Celebration, 30th Street Station, April 21, 2011, Coordinated by Girard College High School, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
WHEN will demonstrate how to properly dispose of unwanted medicines in the home.
- WHEN moderates Healthy Homes in Toxic Times at the next Urban Sustainability Forum on January 20, 2011, at the Academy of Natural Sciences, with speakers from PA IPM program and National Center for Healthy Housing. Link to resources on personal care products and health home from our Tools for You page.
- WHEN presents at the 2011 4th Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit: Connections—Land to Sea, Shore to Shore & Science to Outreach, January 30 – February 2, 2011
Oral: Safer pharmaceutical disposal practices through a pilot program for consumers, by Julie Becker, Teresa Mendez-Quigley, Kelly Anderson, Paula Conolly
Poster: Identifying stakeholders’ practices and concerns about pharmaceuticals: A qualitative study, by Julie Becker.
Food, Antibiotics & Public Health: A Call to Action
December 2, 2010
Key food issues that impact health and the environment through a showing of the WHEN video Hidden Secrets: Toxins in Our Environment, and presentations by Meredith Montalto, Pew Campaign on Human Health and Industrial Agriculture on Industrial Agriculture and Antibiotic Resistance; Dianne Moore, WHEN on Creating a Food Policy: Recipe for Success, and Teresa Mendez-Quigley, WHEN on Food Matters: Clinical Education & Advocacy. Visit our Programs page (Sustainable Food Events) for more information.
Environmental Exposures & Health: A Workshop for Nurses and Other Professionals In the Home
November 5, 2010
Eating Sustainably - Surviving a Food System Which Was Not Designed for Optimum Health, WHEN
What's Bugging You? Less Toxic Pest Control, PA IPM
Got Drugs? Preventing Pharmaceutical Pollution in Drinking Water, WHEN
Panel: Regional nurses present their environmental health initiatives in the workplace
Main Line Health, Thomas Jefferson School of Nursing & Chi Eta Phi Sorority
Visit our Programs page (Nursing Leadership for Environmental Health) for more details.
Healthcare's Harvest: Seeding Sustainability in Hospital Kitchens
October 5, 2010
In appreciation of the harvest season and its bounty of sustainable ingredients, WHEN presented the 2nd sustainable cook training event. Learn more at our Programs page (Sustainable Food Events).
Thanks for coming out to WHEN's video salon on July 22nd to view The Story of Cosmetics, by Annie Leonard and Free Range Graphics.
Shampoos, make-up, lotions...are your products safe and healthy?
Missed it? View the video here. Then take action...click here to support introduced legislation that would phase out ingredients linked to cancer, birth defects and developmental harm.
Download the sheet on ingredients to avoid by visiting our Tools page.
Thanks to SA VA for hosting (read their blog, "About Your Face") on the event. SA VA is locally made, globally inspired, and community focused fashion.
Philly Inquirer's Sandy Bauers' article about personal-care products. Read it here.
Health Care Opportunities
1. Plan to attend:

Save the Date: October 18-19, 2011 in Seattle, WA. View flyer here.
2. Reduce Bottled Water sales (see Programs: Healthier Food for Healthier Communities).
3. Share your sustainable recipe. Send it to us for posting.
4. View the newly released 7 minute video, "The Story of Electronics." Click on Programs button above, choose Environmentally Responsible Healthcare, scroll down to Electronics.