Martin Kearns of Netcentric Campaigns and the Green Media Toolshed will be presenting two workshops at the Massachusetts Powershift Conference on Saturday April 12, 2008. These two workshops are free and open to the public, and are sponsored by Clean Water Action and the Boston University Superfund Basic Research Program.

On Saturday March 15, 2008, the Toxics Action Center is hosting "Environmental Action 2008:  Mobilizing the Grassroots for a Greener New England" at the Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. Environmental Action 2008 is New England’s largest conference for citizen activists protecting public health and the environment. The BU SBRP will be co-sponsoring this event, and Outreach Coordinator Madeleine Scammell will be co-leading a workshop with Cindy Luppi  from Clean Water Action titled "Biomonitoring: What toxics are in you? What's in your home?" from 9:30am-10:45am.

For more information or to register for the conference, please visit www.toxicsaction.org.

Ann Backus from the Harvard-NIEHS Center for Environmental Health and member of the Environmental Health Nursing Education Collaborative spoke in Professor Teresa Roberts' Health Assessment class at the University of Massachusetts Boston on March 5, 2008. Both Ann and Teresa are members of the collaborative that also includes the BU SBRP, Boston College, Mass General, and Salem State. The goal of this collaboration is to contribute to the education and training of nurses by helping their faculty integrate environmental health into the nursing curriculum.