Having addressed the fundamental topic of local, organic-quality, slow food as a key economic and restorative justice opportunity in our launch, we of EcoTuesday Cleveland now take a closer look at health and wellness though toxicity awareness and illness prevention. Our second Fourth Tuesday event will raise awareness to toxins and carcinogens that still prevail in many common and trusted brand-name products as well as the potent combination of business and wellness opportunity in shifting to natural and organic alternatives for everyday household and commercial use - cleaning agents, pest control, and odor removal just to name a few. Our next delivery will be grounded in research and facts that are abundant and compelling.
This month we are happy to showcase Joy Wright, a champion for individual and environmental wellness and toxin awareness/ cancer prevention specialist. Joy's crusade to raise awareness and understanding for others was catalyzed five years ago, when she was diagnosed with leukemia and informed by her physician that her conditon had been likely caused and exacerbated by toxic exposure. Since then she has brought her impassioned and educated message to thousands of regional residents and their families. Children are particularly prone to the toxicity that prevails in many common brands and everyday products and Joy, having four little ones of her own, punctuates her message with special concern for our children and their future. Now in remission, she stands as a living example of the power of toxicity prevention and remediation.
Joy has found that core opportunity to both do good and do well as both an advocate for wellness and exposure prevention and as an entrepreneur distributing safer, natural and eco-friendly alternatives to traditional chemicals and artificially based or enhanced products that are so common in households and workplaces today. These include products that (unlike their artificial counterparts), help remediate the soils or waters they end up in, rather than contaminating them. This speaks to innovations in sustainable product design that need to be emulated and proliferated for better quality of life of all our planet's stakeholders.
Joy's message is particularly relevant for both environmental health and wellness and eco-friendly enterprise and economic opportunity. She has spoken to familiy and women's groups, asthma associations, cancer groups and at the recent Live Green Learn Green symposium . We are happy to have her speak March 23rd, at the Club at Key Center from 5:30-7:30 PM. Don't miss it!
