[CPEO-BIF] Interactive Health Ecology Access Links Update

[msjones@igc.org]

Dear Brownfields Activists,

The IHEAL Directory of Health & Environment Links is a portal to
hundreds of electronic databases and information resources developed by
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition's International Campaign for Responsible
Technology.  The 450 indexed sites found on

http://www.iheal.org

cover themes and tools of special interest to environmental health
advocates:

     Air and Climate
     Chemicals
     Environmental, Public and Occupational Health
     Environmental Law and Security
     Pollution Prevention
     Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers / Public Right-to-know
     Water and Earth

     Global Positioning Systems/Earth Satellite Data
     GIS, Digital Mapping and Map Collections

as well as links to many community-based organizations working on RTK,
Pollutant Registers and Chemical Safety around the globe.

In preparation for the upcoming UN/ECE Aarhus Convention PRTR Working
Group Meeting on 28 Feb-2 March 2001, and Electronic Tools Task Force
Workshop, 8-9 March 2001, the Interactive Health Ecology Access Links
Network has completed a thorough upgrading of its website www.iheal.org.

New features on the IHEAL website include

*  IHEAL Portal Description and Highlighted List of Features & Services,

    including Free GIS Mapping Resources by Clary Meuser Research
    Network

*  IHEAL Reports: "Note of the Czech Republic on the PRTR Task Force"

*  Email contacts to IHEAL Network members working on
    "GIS Research and Electronic Access",
    "Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers" &
    "Environment & Health Research and Communications"

*  Multilingual  "Send a Question"  feature allowing viewers to make
    inquires in
        --   Bulgarian
        --   Czech
        --   English
        --   Polish
        --   Portuguese
        --   Romanian
        --   Russian
        --   Slovak
        --   Spanish
        --   Tagalog
        --   Ukrainian
        (and soon Japanese, Malay and Indonesian as well).

*  Additional Aarhus related links to
    --   UN/ECE  "Convention on Access to Information, Public
          Participation in Decision Making, and Access to Justice in
Environmental
          Matters"
    --    "ECO-Forum Public Participation Campaign"
    --    "Aarhus PRTR Task Force" pages developed by Nadace Partnerstvi

    --    Status of Aarhus Convention Ratification

and

*  IHEAL Database Links to
    --  Romanian Mining Disasters website on Green Spider
    --  New Electronic recycling maps of northern California, developed
         by SVTC and the Bay Area Shared Information Consortium (BASIC)

We hope these new IHEAL features will enhance the value users find in
Interactive Health Ecology Access Links - www.iheal.org.

Michael Stanley-Jones
International Campaign for Responsible Technology
Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition
San Jose, California
msjones@svtc.org
www.svtc.org
www.iheal.org

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Interactive Health Ecology Access Links (IHEAL) is an international
network created by non-governmental organisations to support
implementation of the United Nations Convention on Access to
Information, Public Participation in Decision Making, and Access to
Justice in Environmental Matters (Aarhus 1998), and the World Health
Organisation-Europe Environment & Health Ministerial Declaration (London

1999). The IHEAL Network cooperates closely with the Public
Participation Campaigns Committee of the Pan-European ECO Forum and
receives financial support from WHO-Europe, the Polden-Puckham
Charitable Foundation (UK) and private donors.




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