May is Clean Air Month and we have teamed up with groups across the southeast to draw attention to this invisible health threat which causes 1 in 5 deaths globally. Access to healthy air is an inherent human right but many of us in the southeast are breathing polluted air everyday making our families and communities sick. The southeast has the highest rates of asthma. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
Join us and bring your questions for a screening of the short 20 minute documentary film “Planet Prescription: Healing Healers. Healing The Planet. Healing Us.” which listens to stories from health professionals in the southeast as they witness how air pollution and climate change are impacting human health, especially children’s health and the communities impacted most by racial injustice. This collaborative film was made in partnership with the Climate Listening Project, Mothers & Others for Clean Air and Narrative Healthcare at Lenoir Rhyne University.
After the film get your questions answered by our live expert panel as they discuss “The Cumulative Effects of Air Pollution & The Role of Environmental Racism.” We will be taking live audience questions throughout the event!
We are honored to have as our moderator the Rev. Dr. Gerald Durley a civil rights icon, prominent pastor and activist. He will be leading the expert panel discussion featuring:
David A. Padgett, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Geography, Director, Geographic Information Sciences Laboratory, Tennessee State University
Eri Saikawa, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University
Jennifer Barkin, MS, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Community Medicine & Obstetrics & Gynecology at the Mercer University School of Medicine
Johnnie D. Thomas, RN Community-Based Health Navigator, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Laura Kate Bender, National Assistant Vice President, Healthy Air at American Lung Association
Registration is FREE but required.
Hosted by:
Alliance for Affordable Energy
Center for Common Ground
Cherokee Concerned Citizens
Climate Reality Atlanta Chapter
Elders Climate Action
GASP
Medical Advocates for Healthy Air
Mothers & Others For Clean Air
NC Interfaith Power & Light, a program of the NC Council of Churches
ReThink Energy Florida
Southern Alliance for Clean Energy
The People’s Justice Council
