Today, WHEN and Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility announce a strategic partnership.  After more than a decade of collaborating together, WHEN and Philadelphia PSR are planning to come together by merging into one organization with a greater capacity to promote nonviolence and safeguard the environment in the region and statewide.  The boards of both nonprofits have signed a nonbinding letter of intent and expect the merger to be finalized by early winter.

Read the full press release here.

Questions can be directed to Kate Etherington, Executive Director of Philadelphia PSR, at 215-763-8703.

New Video:  Changing Times:  

How Seniors Can Create a Healthier Climate

by WHEN

Click here to view it.

In Recognition of National Nutrition Month WHEN presents

Healthcare's Harvest: Seeding Sustainability

in Hospital Kitchens Recipe Collection

This collection of recipes offers hospitals, other healthcare facilities and institutions flavorful, sustainable and healthy meals.  Building on WHEN’s previous sustainable food cook training, it is designed to offer organizations an opportunity to enhance their fare by using and creating seasonal, sustainable, and/or organic, menus.  

Hospital food often raises images of red gelatin, microwaved bagels, and unidentifiable meat. Across the country, healthcare professionals and environmental and culinary experts are helping to redefine hospital food.  Using our regional campaign as a foundation to work towards healthy, sustainable foods that taste great, WHEN offers hospitals and other entities a venue to learn about sustainability in the food system, demonstrate culinary skills, sample tasty fare, and take back tools to kitchens to offer up menus which benefit patients, employees, local communities, and the environment.

Recipes with photos and nutritional data feature Sustainable Poultry, Sustainable Seafood & Fish, and Tasty Vegetarian.  Examples include: Pommery Mustard Chicken with Grilled Pear, Lentils and Spinach (gluten-free option), Sea Scallops on Singapore Noodles and Veggie Sliders on Whole Wheat Rolls.  

Download here.  View the Programs page and click on Food & Sustainability for more materials and tools.

2012 Events

February 22, 2012 - Norristown, Montgomery County, PA 

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!

 

- View our newest video: Healthcare's Harvest: Seeding Sustainability in Hospital Kitchens.

May 26, 2011, 10-11:30 a.m., Center City Philadelphia 

June 16, 2011, 1-2:30, South Philly 

If interested in attending, please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Download flyer here.

Internships available for the following programs:

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:

- Nursing Spectrum Career Fair, Philadelphia, March 15th

Don't Flush Those Meds: Pharmaceuticals in Our Water

 

 

- Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center, Philadelphia, March 16th, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Learn about Water, Health & WHEN’s Programs in recognition of World Water Day

- The 26th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia, PA, March 27 - 30, 2011

Identifying Stakeholders' Practices and Concerns About Pharmaceuticals: A Qualitative Study, Julie Becker, Ph.D., MPH, President and Founder, Women's Health & Environmental Network,, USA

- Rx for Survival: Medical Advocacy and Social Justice, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Washington, D.C., April 8 - 10, 2011

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.

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.

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.

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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.

WHEN has initiated a pilot project to evaluate a social marketing campaign designed to inform pharmacy customers of safer medication disposal practices for unwanted, expired or unused pharmaceuticals in the home.  Working with a pharmacy located in the City of Philadelphia and part of an important watershed used by the Philadelphia Water Department, WHEN will assess the effectiveness of materials to communicate to the public.