Support the D.C. Healthy Schools Act
Earth Day Network and Campaign for Healthy Kids, a health advocacy group, have formed a coalition to call for responsible funding of the D.C. Healthy Schools Act. The Campaign for Healthy Kids recently commissioned a poll that found that 71% of D.C. voters would support a penny-per-ounce levy on sugar-sweetened beverages if revenues were dedicated to fight childhood obesity. Despite such efforts, the American Beverage Association (ABA) – the corporate lobby for Coca-Cola, Pepsico and Dr. Pepper-Snapple – has launched an aggressive $5.4 million national campaign to take down these efforts. More than 350 stakeholders, including 100 students, participated in the transparent, inclusive process that crafted the unanimously passed D.C. Healthy Schools Act. Now, we must create an even broader coalition and set a national example for funding healthy schools in our communities.
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Earth Day Network is currently hard at work organizing for Earth Day 2010, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Check out EarthDay.net for details.
Earth Day Network was founded on the premise that all people, regardless of race, gender, income, or geography, have a moral right to a healthy, sustainable environment. Our mission is to broaden and diversify the environmental movement worldwide, and to mobilize it as the most effective vehicle for promoting a healthy, sustainable environment. We pursue our mission through a combination of education, public policy, and consumer activism campaigns. Our campaign and programs are predicated on the belief that an educated, energized population will take action to secure a healthy future for itself and its children. Earth Day Network has a global reach with a network of more than 17,000 partners and organizations in 174 countries.
More than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day activities, making it the largest secular civic event in the world.
