Pierce County Environmental Health Trends Forum January 7, 2010 - 5:30 - 8 pm Evergreen State College Tacoma 1210 6th Avenue, Tacoma - Room 206 Directions: http://www.evergreen.edu/tacoma/driving.htm DRAFT AGENDA: 5:30 pm Overview of Pierce County Environmental Health Trends project 5:45 pm Why do we care about environmental health trends? o Representative Tom Campbell, Select Committee on Environmental Health Chair o Ryan Mello, Pierce County Sustainability Coalition, MetroParks Tacoma & Cascade Land Conservancy (invited) 6:15 pm Food and Land indicator: Agricultural Land in Pierce County o Dick & Terry Ann Carkner, Terry’s Berries, and Dan Hulse, Terra Organics 6:30 pm Air indicator: Air Quality Index Unhealthy Days in Pierce County o Kimberly Freeman, Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Advisory Committee, Pierce County Planning & Land Services (invited) 6:45 pm Water and Food indicator: Mercury in Puget Sound Salmon o Jim West, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (invited) 7:00 pm Next Steps: Information, Personal and Policy Actions Needed Ø What information do we need to make better decisions? Ø What personal and policy actions are needed to address issues? Ø How might we work together better to address issues? Pierce County Environmental Health Trends 2008 report online at www.tpchd.org/ehindicators RSVP please to Marianne Seifert at (253) 798-3823 or mseifert@tpchd.org Marianne Seifert Environmental Health Program Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department 3629 South D Street, MS 320 Tacoma, WA 98418-6813 mseifert@tpchd.org 253.798.3823 ************************************************************************************* This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information. It has been scanned for viruses. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and destroy any copies. Any dissemination, use, review, disclosure, or distribution of this information by a person other than the intended recipient is unauthorized and may be illegal. **************************************************************************************