Building A Sustainable Earth Community
Presents The 3rd Annual Breaking The Silence Environmental Conference
HOW HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT CONNECT
With
Booker T. Washington’s Great Grand-Daughter
Sarah Rush & Roderick Bremby
Kansas’s Secretary of Health & Environment
as our Keynote Speakers
DATES: JANUARY 8th, 2010— 5:00 to 10:00 pm
JANUARY 9th, 2010—9:00 am to 9:00 pm
LOCATION: REARDON CONVENTION CENTER
520 MINNESOTA AVE.
KANSAS CITY, KANSAS 66101
COST: $1:00 per day REGISTRATION
For Conference Details Visit: www.breakingthesilence.us
Or Call: 913-481-9920
Friday Night, January 8
We like to use Friday as a way for us to bond for a weekend of Environmental Education. We do that by allowing our two opening acts to personally free your mind of worldly concerns, and awaken your willingness to:
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOMB
Our 3rd presentation will be from The KC Plant Project which is a coalition that has come together to publicize issues concerning the Kansas City Honeywell Nuclear Weapons Plant. Jay Coghlan from NukeWatch New Mexico will speak on the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, and Maurice Copeland will address the Health Related Issues associated with it.
Saturday, January 9th
After an opening address by Secretary Bremby at 9:00 AM, we will spend the rest of the day teaching and learning with each other. If you don’t see a topic of interest, please feel free to let us know, and if possible, we will try to include it, too.
Spirituality Energy Efficiency Kansas Rivers
Health Research Sustainable Food Production
Environmental Law Prisoner’s Re-Entry
Environmental Organizations No Child Left Inside
Health Organizations Environmental Education
Health Education Food Not Lawns
High School Science Job Core for Single Parents
Then to end our day of learning, we are going to screen the award winning documentary about one women’s work that ended up changing a nation.
TAKING ROOT tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, whose simple act of planning trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights and defend democracy.
Kansas County Health Rankings in 2009
The Kansas Health Institute hopes to stimulate an ongoing discussion about the health of Kansans and the powerful factors that influence it. When we became aware of a report they issued that ranked the health of Kansas residents in all 105 counties, we were very disturbed to find that Wyandotte County received the worst ranking (105) for Health Care.
Feeling a need to do something and seeing our Breaking The Silence Conference as the perfect vehicle to use, we asked the Director of the Wyandotte County Health Department who wholeheartedly agreed to help us make a statement at our conference by offering free health screenings for anyone who attends and would want such a service. So come on out and be sure to tell others about the free health screenings at this year’s conference.
Will You Consider Being a Vendor or Sponsor of this event? We need your help to make this a successful conference!
The Conference is being coproduced by both the Kansas City Kansas Community College and the Wyandotte County Health Department
July 14th, 2010 at 9:37 pm
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