The Sustainability Café will focus on "Toxics Targeting, Inc.: Using Venture Capital, Freedom of Information, and Citizen Advocacy Efforts to Safeguard the Environment and Human Health." This Café event, offered in conjunction with the Environmental Seminar, will be held on Monday, September 22, at 4:00 p.m. in the Center for Natural Sciences, room 115.
Toxics Targeting, Inc., an environmental data firm based in Ithaca, helps property buyers check their homes and businesses for more than 270,000 known or potential environmental hazards. The firm compiles in-depth data from local, state, and federal government sources for more than 500,000 known or potential toxic sites across New York, including extensive archival information now withheld from public disclosure due to "homeland security" concerns.
Company president Walter Hang is an outspoken local environmental activist and member of the Community Advisory Group for Ithaca Gun, a well-known lead and asbestos contamination site. His database information has helped support arguments for greater regulation of polluting industries, for the phasing out of toxic chemicals such as fuel additive mTBE, and for the stringent cleanup of known toxic sites.
"Teachable edibles" -- seasonal, organic, and/or local foods -- for the fall 2008 Sustainability Café series are being supported by Ithaca College Dining Services. Please bring your reusable mug and fill up at the drinking fountain or provide your beverage of choice.
All Sustainability Café events are free and open to the public.
Drink in a new way to think in the Sustainability Café.
