Resources

Alliance Partners: Wellesley Cancer Prevention Project

Purpose: The purpose of the Alliance partners is to grow partnerships with other non-profits with a similar mission statement; thus, allowing for the sharing of initiatives to increase information and resources available to our WCPP supporters.

Alliance Partner Groups

Partner Group	Local, State or National	Partner Link
TURI	State	www.turi.org
The Friends of Brookside	Local	www.friendsofbrookside.org
Wellesley Hills Junior Women’s Club	Local	www.whjwc.org
Healthy Wellesley	Local	www.ci.wellesley.ma.us
Wellesley Garden Clubs	Local	www.gcfm.org
Silent Spring	National	www.silentspring.org
Safe Cosmetics	National	www.ewg.org/skindeep
Wellesley Health Dept	Local	www.wellesleyma.gov
15-40.org	State	www.15-40.org/
Alliance for Healthy Tomorrow	National	www.healthytomorrow.org/
Beth Israel Mass General Hospital Tufts Medical Center Dana Farber Cancer Institute	State	www.bidmc.org/ www.massgeneral.org/ www.tuftsmedicalcenter.org/ www.dana-farber.org/
Newton Wellesley Hospital & Vernon Cancer Center	Local	www.nwh.org/www.nwh.org/cancer
Council of Wellesley PTOs Presidents	Local	www.pawspto.org
Science & Environmental Health Network	National	www.sehn.org
Healthcare without Harm	National	www.noharm.org
Green Decade Newton	Local	www.greendecade.org
Sustainable Wellesley	Local	www.sustainablewellesley.com
Wellesley Mothers Forum	Local	www.wellesleymothersforum.com
Mass Climate Action Network	State	www.massclimateaction.org
Wellesley Free Library	Local	www.wellesleyfreelibrary.org
Environmental Working Group	National	www.ewg.org
Mass Breast Cancer Coalition (MBCC)	State	www.mbcc.org
Wellesley Interfaith Group	Local
EPA Northeast	Regional	www.epa.gov/

Health and the Environment Links
Women’s Voices for the Earth – 
www.womensvoices.org
Safer Chemicals/Healthy Families – 
www.saferchemicals.org
Healthy Child Healthy World – www.healthychild.org
Environmental Working Group – Cutting Edge Research on Health and the Environment 
 – www.ewg.org (Includes the link to the Safe Cosmetics interactive website, used in our Personal Care Products seminar.)
Environmental Health Perspectives – Information about environmental exposures that may affect health. References to use of products – ehp03.niehs.nih.gov
Environmental Health & Toxicology – www.sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro.html
Center for Disease Control – www.cdc.gov
The Silent Spring Institute
 – www.silentspring.org/
The Massachusetts Health and Environment Information System
 – www.silentspring.org/our-research/health-and-environmental-mapping/massachusetts-health-and-environment-information-syste
Toxics Use Reduction Institute 
- www.turi.org
Toxics Action Center – Cleaning Up and Preventing Pollution 
- www.toxicsaction.org
Skin Deep: Cosmetics Safety Database produced by the Environmental Working Group – www.ewg.org/skindeep
GoodGuide: Green, Healthy & Safe Product Ratings & Reviews
 – www.goodguide.com
Healthy Food Pledge
 – www.noharm.org/us_canada/get_involved/#pledge
Green Guide for Healthcare
 – www.gghc.org

Cancer Links
American Cancer Society 
- www.cancer.org
American Institute for Cancer Research 
- www.aicr.org
Breast Cancer – www.breastcancer.org
Cancer Support Community – www.cancersupportcommunity.org/
Multiple Myleoma Research Foundation – www.themmrf.org/
Prevent Cancer Foundation – www.preventcancer.org
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation 
- www.komen.org
The Cancer Prevention Society 
- www.cancerpreventionsociety.org/
Prostate Cancer Research Institute – www.prostate-cancer.org/pcricms/
Prostate Treatment Guide – www.prostate-cancer.com/

Pesticides Links
Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards – www.sustainable.org/governance/waste-and-toxics-management
EPA – Office of Pesticide Programs 
- www.epa.gov/pesticides
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides – www.pesticide.org
Pesticide Action Network – www.panna.org/
Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database – www.pesticideinfo.org
Pesticides Research Report: Do Pesticides Cause Lymphoma? – www.lymphomahelp.org/report.pdf
Wellesley Pesticide Awareness Campaign – home.comcast.net/~little.sarah/
The Environmental Working Group’s website regarding Pesticides in Food, including a guide to Produce: – www.foodnews.org/
Meat Eaters Guide: Know where your meat and dairy come from – breakingnews.ewg.org/meateatersguide/interactive-graphic/

Directories of Chemicals and Other Toxins Links
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) – 
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/
Lindane Education and Research Network – 
www.lindane.org
National Antimicrobial Information Network – Oregon State University and Environmental Protection Agency – 
npic.orst.edu.htm
Massachusetts Department of Agriculture: Pesticides – 
mass.gov/agr/pesticides/

Environment – Land and Water
Charles River Watershed Association – Protecting the Charles River – 
www.crwa.org
Greenpeace – 
www.greenpeace.org
Massachusetts Audubon Society – Protecting Massachusetts Nature – 
www.massaudubon.org
Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group – 
www.masspirg.org
The Nature Conservancy – Preserving the Earth’s Last Great Places – 
www.nature.org
The Sierra Club – Protect the Planet – 
www.sierraclub.org
The Trustees of Reservations – Conserving and Protecting Land – 
www.thetrustees.org

Chemicals in Personal Care Products Links
Skin Deep: Cosmetics Safety Database produced by the Environmental Working Group – www.ewg.org/skindeep
Just a Pretty Face: A website produced by Stacy Malkan, the author of the book with the same title – 
www.notjustaprettyface.org/
Organic Divas: A website devoted to the premise that not all personal care products are equal – 
www.organicdivas.com/

Other Links
Art because – Funding Research into the Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer – 
www.artbecause.org
Co-op America – Using Consumer and Investor Power for Social Change – www.greenamerica.org
Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility – 
www.igc.org/psr
Pan Mass Challenge – 
www.pmc.org
We Can Row – A Wellness and Recovery Program – www.wecanrowboston.org

Books

• Not Such a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry – Stacy Malkan
• Tiny Game Hunting: Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden – Hilary Dole Klein and Adrian M. Wenner
• No Family History: The Environmental Links to Breast Cancer – Sabrina McCormick
• Living Downstream: A Scientist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment – Sandra Steingraber
• Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story – Theo Colburn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers
• Building a Healthy Lawn: A Safe and Natural Approach – Stuart Franklin
• Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
• Dead Daisies Make Me Crazy: Garden Solutions Without Chemical Pollution – Loren Nancarrow, Janet Hogan Taylor
• Organic Pest Control for Home and Garden – Tom Roberts
• Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards – Rachel Carson Counsel Inc.
• Poisoned for Profit “How Toxins Are Making Our Children Chronically Ill” – Alice and Philip Shabecoffe http://www.poisonedforprofit.net/