| Title: | Recommendations for Action on Pollution and Education in Toronto |
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| Date of publication: | May 1985 |
| URL: | www.technologyandhealth.org |
| Authors: | Bruce M. Small, Wendy Priesnitz |
| Bibliographic info: | Softcover, 8.5 x 11 inch photocopied report, approx 400 pages. Consultation Paper prepared for the Pollution and Education Review Group of the Board of Education for the City of Toronto, 155 College St., Toronto, Ontario M5T 1P6. |
| Publisher: | Technology and Health Foundation |
| Abstract: | This report indicated that staff and students are exposed to many pollutants which originate both within their schools and in the neighbouring communities. The sources of pollution range fron industrial emissions and automobile exhaust outside, to painting, cleaning chemicals, art and science materials, tobacco smoke, and even chalk dust, inside. Some students and staff are experiencing acute adverse effects from such exposures, while others do not appear to be suffering, at least in the short term, from the same exposures. |
| Additional Notes: | This reference contains approximately 140 pages of abstracted bibliographic references up to the date of publication. This study for the Board of Education for the City of Toronto was a precursor to the Interagency Group on Pollution and Education, a network of interested school board officials who conducted seminars in the mid-to-late 1980s and met together to share experiences related to indoor air quality problems in schools. |
| Keywords: | hypersensitivity, children, schools, low-emission materials, activities, diagnosis, troubleshooting, feedback, measurement, low-pollution classrooms, tobacco smoking, learning disabilities, guidelines, building illness |
| Record Last Revised: | Record #87, revised 1/17/2001 |
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