Who is robina suwol?

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Robina Suwol is the founder and Executive Director of California Safe Schools www.calisafe.org. an internationally celebrated children's environmental health and justice coalition founded in 1998. California Safe Schools successfully spearheaded the most stringent schools pesticide use policy in the nation, Integrated Pest Management (IPM), at the Los Angeles Unified School District. IPM uses low risk methods to eradicate insects, weeds and other pests, eliminating a major source of indoor and outdoor pollution. It was the first in the United States to embrace the "Precautionary Principle" and "Right to Know" about pesticides used on school campuses.

The success of the Los Angeles Unified policy led to California Legislation, Healthy Schools Act 2000.

On October 6, 2005, Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB 405 ( Montanez) sponsored by California Safe Schools. This important law closes a loophole protecting more than 6 million California k-12 public school students, and hundreds of thousands of teachers and school employees from exposure to experimental pesticides whose health effects are unknown.

Robina is a two time Volvo Hero Award recipient (3rd & 5th), Environmental Protection Agency Region IX - 2007 Environmental Award, Women of Spirit Award, and Los Angeles Children's Council Leading Boldly Award, Southcoast Air Quality Management District Environmental Stewardship Award, 2007 US Western Pollution Prevention Hero, Prevention Magazine Hero ,UTNE Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World, First AmendmentCoalition  Beacon Award and Carl Gibbs Environmental Award.

Articles about Robina have appeared in Ladies Home Journal, Child Magazine, Parent Magazine, Prevention Magazine, National Safety Council, Children's Advocate, as well as the Los Angeles Times, and Daily News.

References

UTNE Magazine Visionaries
http://www.utne.com/2008-11-13/50-Visionaries-Who-Are-Changing-Your-World.aspx


Volvo for Life Awards
http://www.volvoforlifeawards.com/cgi-bin/iowa/english/heros/hero2004/5428.html

United States Environmental Protection Agency 2007 Environmental Awards http://www.epa.gov/region09/presentations/2007AwardsGallery/pages/EnviroAwardWinners07%20012.html

Red Cross & Arnie Morton's Honor Robina Suwol http://www.prlog.org/10026721-wine-dinner-at-arnie-morton-the-steakhouse-honors-robina-suwol.html

Prevention Magazine Hero http://www.prevention.com/hero/

EPA Honors Environmental Heroes http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/8b770facf5edf6f185257359003fb69e/f91f51a3ebc5d954852572bf0081f95b!OpenDocument

Environmental Justice Conference 2008 http://www.ejconference2008.org/images/Suwol_assoc_with_1_JPG_file.pdf

Bioneers https://secure.bioneers.org/node/1388

Southcoast AQMD -Celebrates Clean Air Winners http://www.aqmd.gov/news1/2007/2007cleanairawards.html

August 24, 2007 Waste to Energy Proposal Studied February 27, 2007 Valley Mom Makes Campuses Safer http://www.dailynews.com/

Writer: Louis Sahagun March 30, 1998 http://www.latimes.com

Clinton Foundation http://giving.clintonfoundation.org/node/243

Whole Children, Whole Planet Expo 2008 http://www.wcwpexpo.com/RobinaBio.html

Jewish Journal http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=7603

Writer: Carol Lynn Mithers Ladies' Home Journal May 2000 http://www.lhj.com

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