As Sandra Steingraber says, "It is time to start pursuing alternative paths." Learn along with Liz Armstrong as she meets some of the outstanding activists on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border who have made their homes, schools, workplaces - and the world at large - safer, healthier, less toxic places.

Apr 25, 2012 /

All Aboard for Healthy Schools!

We’re back again for another lesson from ace advocate Karen Robinson of Canadians for A Safe Learning Environment (CASLE) in Nova Scotia. (If you aren’t familiar with CASLE’s work, see my first Alternative Paths blog here.)

This time, I wanted to know what makes CASLE tick so effectively. The...

Feb 21, 2011 /

The Bedroom as Boardroom: Karen Robinson & CASLE

What respected Nova Scotia environmental-health group was launched – and developed its highly successful strategy – in a bedroom?

Stumped? Canadians for a Safe Learning Environment indeed started in perhaps the least likely of all places, a bedroom. To be a little more precise, CASLE was born...

Jan 17, 2011 /

Liz’s First Blog

In 1989, Liz Armstrong got off the eco sidelines and became active in a variety of environmental issues. Her main interest over the past twenty years has been cancer prevention. Liz is co-author of the 2007 book, Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic, and co-founder of two national organizations, Prevent Cancer Now and The Cancer Prevention Challenge.