Tracey Easthope
Interview with Tracey Easthope and Michael Garfield
November 20 2017
Conducted by Matt Lassiter and Joshua Blum
Clips
13:10 - 14:41
Tracey talks about Good Neighbor Agreements, one of the ways the Ecology Center was able to pressure companies into changing their processes to reduce their toxics emissions. #toxics #CitizenRightToKnow #GoodNeighborAgreements #collaboration #unions
20:27 - 22:27
Tracey discusses environmental justice and how her work in toxins has always had an environmental justice focus. #toxics #EnvironmentalJustice #minorities #EcologyCenter
39:49 - 40:23
Tracey explains why she believes the Ann Arbor Ecology Center has been more successful and longer lasting than other similar ecology centers throughout the country. #EarthDay #education #EcologyCenter
42:10 - 43:20
Tracey talks about how the Ecology Center does advocacy beyond Ann Arbor because regional, national, and global issues impact their communities. #advocacy #global #national #local
48:38 - 50:27
Tracey discusses the connection between large scale issues and local issues, especially in regards to incinerators across the country contaminating lakes and in turn poisoning people in those communties. #toxics #fish #mercury #incinerators #global #local #national
52:05 - 52:50
Tracey tells those that may be discouraged by the current environmental sitaution that activists have been in situations like this before and have figured out ways to make great change. #change #advocacy
Interview with Tracey Easthope
October 25, 2019
Clips
1:29 - 2:49
Tracey talks about how the Ecology Center helped get the Toxic Substances Control Act reauthorized in 2015 and what impact it has had.
#toxics #toxicsubstancescontrolact #politics #trump
4:20 - 5:59
Tracey discusses the lawsuit the Ecology Center was a part of that cracked down on the pollution caused by medical waste incinerators and the other ways they fought incinerators.
#toxics #medicalwasteincinerators #incinerators #politics #dioxin
11:30 - 13:17
Tracey talks about how she and David Stead got invovled in the Gelman Sciences clean-up and how they were able to get Gelman Sciences to treat the contaminated water, not just dilute it. #toxics #dioxane #GelmanSciences #water #watercontamination
14:55 - 16:00
Tracey talks about how the broader goal of HCWH today is to move from a doing less harm to a restorative health mindset.
#HCWH #greenenergy #toxics #healthcare
17:42 - 20:00
Tracey discusses how Healthcare Without Harm got started and why they decided to focus on the healthcare sector. #HCWH #toxics #dioxin #mercury #watercontamination #healthcare
22:00 - 23:16
Tracey talks about some of the exciting strides the healthcare sector has made in becoming more eco-friendly. #healthcare #HCWH
27:05 - 28:35
Tracey discusses the idea behind Michigan Green Chemistry Directive and its goals. #toxics #greenchemistry #politics #advocacy
Interview with Tracey Easthope
July 19, 2019
Conducted by Katherine Hummel
Clips
3:48 - 5:43
Tracey emphasizes the importance of grassroots activists to the toxics movement and brings out an individual's story from the Michigan Toxics Watch newsletter that was published by the Ecology Center. #toxics #grassroots #michigantoxicswatch
7:34 - 8:35
Tracey talks about how events like the Bhopal chemical disaster led to people organizing for community right to know laws. #righttoknow #toxics #bhopal
12:15 - 14:44
Tracey talks about how the research on endocrine disrupters led to the creation of the Michigan Environmental Health Coalition. #endocrinedisrupters #toxics #michiganenvironmentalhealthcoalition #women
20:49 - 21:57
Tracey discusses how Green Peace organizing about toxics in the Great Lakes culminated in an iconic IJC meeting where people from many communities came to speak. #IJC #greenpeace #toxics #greatlakes #community
27:37 - 30:00
Tracey talks about the lawsuit that shut down most of the medical waste incincerators across the country and then the EC efforts that worked to shut down the rest in Michigan. #medicalwasteincinerators #incinerators #toxics #dioxin #mercury
32:14 - 33:30
Tracey emphasizes how closely the EC worked with local communities in the fight against toxics and how they worked to elevate the community, not take over. #communitiy #grassroots #toxics
34:41 - 35:58
Tracey talks about the incredibe, forward thinking reports that the IJC came out with that helped to jump start the toxics movement. #toxics #IJC
42:16 - 44:55
Tracey discusses how the movement for Dow Chemical cleanup got started, efforts by activists, and Dow's effort at denial. #dow #dioxin #toxics #contamination
50:06 - 52:47
Tracey talks about the fight to get Gelman Sciences to clean up their 1,4 dioxane contamination, the methods for treatment, and the personal attacks that were targeting at activists. #dioxane #toxics #gelmansciences