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• Green Guide for Health Care  A best practices guide for healthy and sustainable building design, construction, and operations for the healthcare industry.
  
  
• Green Meeting Guide A guidance manual to planning meetings in an environmentally responsible manner.  Developed by the American Nurses' Association.
  
  
• Risks to Asthma Posed by Indoor Health Care Environments  Health Care Without Harm's report on asthmagens and asthma triggers in the health care setting.
  
  
• Safe Workplaces and Healthy Learning Places:
  Environmentally Friendly Schools A continuing education module developed by the Environmental Health Education Center for the American 
  Nurses' Association focusing on environmental health in schools.
  
  
• In Harm's Way  A report examining the contribution of toxic chemicals to neurodevelopmental, learning, and behavioral disabilities in children. 
  
  
• Pesticides Initiative for Health Care Providers  A strategic approach for incorporating environmental health information into the education and practice of health care providers,
  using pesticides as a model.
  
  
• Phthalates and Bisphenol A  This report summarizes what is currently known about human health effects of phthalates and bisphenol A, chemicals commonly used in the manufacture
  of plastics.
  
  
• Body Burden: The Pollution in Newborns  A investigation by the Environmental Working Group of industrial chemicals, pollutants, and pesticides in human umbilical cord blood. 
  

• Across Generations: Industrial Chemicals in Mothers
  and Daughters --the Pollution We Share and Inherit  An investigation by the Environmental Working Group showing a common body burden of industrial chemicals. 
  
  
• Drinking Water Factsheets  Developed by Physicians for Social Responsibility.
   
  
• Guidance for Developing an Environmental Health Task Force  Created by the Maryland Nurses' Association as a guide to help nursing associations expand their involvement in
  environmental health and advocacy.