“Chemicals Without Harm” Book Reading & Panel Discussion | SF

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Join the SF Department of the Environment and Breast Cancer Fund as they honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a book reading and panel discussion of Chemicals without Harm by Ken Geiser. Come by 5:30 pm for light refreshments and networking and stay for the main event from 6:30-7:30 pm.

Panelists include:

• David Chiu, Assemblymember, California State Assembly
• Debbie Raphael, Director, San Francisco Department of the Environment
• Janet Nudelman, Director of Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Breast Cancer Fund
• Hilary Peterson, CEO, True Nature Botanicals

Book Description:
Too often the chemicals that provide so many benefits to everyone’s lives also present worrisome hazards. You could spend the next fifty years trying to build better and better controls around more and more chemicals, or you could reconsider this strategy. If you are going to make big efforts to address the chemicals problem, it would be better if everyone worked to develop safer chemicals and moved thoughtfully and progressively to convert the economy to safer and more sustainable chemicals.

There is a positive, solution oriented quest inherent in these initiatives. Can someone create a truly safer chemicals market? Can someone make chemicals without harm?

As part of Breast Cancer Awareness month, author Ken Geiser will read from his new book, Chemicals Without Harm, and panelists will speak on how you can all reduce the risk by becoming more informed shoppers and supporting smarter laws.

About the author: Ken Geiser is Professor Emeritus of Work Environment at the University of Massachusetts Lowell where he served as Director of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute and Co-Director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production. He is the author of Materials Matter: Toward a Sustainable Materials Policy.

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