News from Envirnonmental Organizations around the State – April 6
April 6, 2009 by citizensarah
Happy Monday everybody! Check out the latest from our friends at Alliance for a Clean Texas. Original post can be found here.
This week, ACT is happy to bring reports from two organizations doing great work on behalf of their local communities. In Houston, the Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention (GHASP) is presenting Houston Earth Day – the City of Houston’s official Earth Day celebration – this Saturday, April 11th. This FREE day-long festival focuses on green-living and features hands-on activities for everyone. There will be an Earth Zone (highlighting air, land, water and renewable energy), an Environmental Education Zone, Kids Energy Zone, and Farmers’ Market. Additional information about Houston Earth Day and Mothers for Clean Air’s Earth Day 5k is available here.
The Hill Country Alliance reports that they support HB 3265 which will be heard in House County Affairs on Monday April 6. This bill represents the culmination of 18 months of collaboration between 15 rural Hill Country counties; it provides this sensitive area with a set of tools to handle growth – particularly the stress placed on water resources.
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Toxic Chemical Pollution, Children and Schools in the U.S.
http://www.mapcruzin.com/toxicrisk/index.htm
ToxicRisk.com is a Google Maps based mashup project that uses the latest EPA Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data, released March 19,2009, and schools in the U.S. Links are provided to RTK Net for detailed chemical pollution release data and Scorecard for chemical information.
As you zoom in you will see a change in the icons of the facilities near the center of the map – these are the ones that you can click on and find the facility name, number of schools within 1 mile and number of schools within 5 miles of the facility plus a link to a database about the toxic history of the facility. You can also click on a chemical to learn more about associated risks. The schools will appear as you zoom in. As you zoom in further, you will see the school icon change – at that point you can click on the school to view its name. Click here for a graphical mini-tutorial. If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, please email me. I’d love to hear from you.
Michael Meuser and Aran Deltac, co-developers of ToxicRisk.com, have been doing interactive pollution mapping since the early 1990s. Their Santa Cruz Toxic Release Inventory was the first U.S. based interactive toxic chemical facility mapping project on the internet. It was son followed with their work on the mapping interface for the launch of Environmental Defense Fund’s Scorecard Project.
Michael works fulltime developing content for http://www.MapCruzin.com and doing Community GIS projects. Aran is programming team leader for a major internet development company.