Florida League of Conservation Voters Education Fund

The Florida League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (FLCVEF) was established in 1994 as a separate non-profit corporation growing out of the Florida League of Conservation Voters, which has been a voice for environmentalists in Florida for twenty-five years. The FLCV Education Fund exists because we believe that the participation of informed citizens in state and local electoral, legislative, and administrative processes helps to ensure protection, restoration and conservation of Florida’s natural resources. The FLCV Education Fund’s goal is to educate the public about conservation, environmental protection, and the political process, and to encourage, through education, research, and debate over public policies that protect the environment and conserve natural resources. To this end, FLCVEF conducts research, monitors governmental and policy-making institutions, and distributes information on environmental issues to citizens, media, environmental and other public interest activists and organizations, etc. FLCVEF develops education and participation programs, and networks with like-minded organizations to activate their members in these educational endeavors. FLCVEF has carried out its program through the efforts of volunteers, including a board, officers and executive committee comprised of a broad-based, statewide group of environmental leaders.

Florida Environment Articles
	Florida Energy Problems, Options, and Suggested Solutions- 2002 State of the Florida Environment -2002 Environmental Effects of Dental Amalgam Energy and Air Toxics Florida's Mercury Problem Adverse Health Effects in Children due to Arsenic Exposure. Also available at: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/arsenic.html. Adverse neurological conditions in children in Florida and other states due to exposure to toxic metals such as arsenic are becoming much more common, and are well documented by medical tests by Medical Clinics such as the one at the following link: http://www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/arsenicc.html Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals Health, Hormonal, and Reproductive Effects of Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals in the Food Chain DEVELOPMENTAL, COGNITIVE, AND BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS of MERCURY and TOXIC METALS on KIDS. The following link provides documentation that high toxic prenatal and postnatal exposures to toxic metals are common, causing millions of neurological and immune developmental conditions and birth defects- including autism, ADD, schizophrenia, dyslexia, learning disabilities, depression, anxiety, juvenile delinquency, violent and criminal behavior, asthma, eczema, and allergies. The link also has information on sources of exposure, tests, treatments, and Clinics having success treating such conditions. www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/indexk.html
Press Releases
	April 21, 2001: Effects of Mercury October 28, 2000: National Academy of Sciences Study Finds Almost Half of U.S. Infants Have Birth Defects, Neurological Problems Such as ADD or PDD or Other Developmental Disorders, With Most Due to Increased Levels of Toxic Exposure. By Bernie Windham April 7, 2000: Montreal Urban Community to Legislate Recycling of Mercury By Dental Clinics: Quebec Environment Minister Approves.