Updates May - June 06

• 6/30/06 -- **EVENT**  The latest Parks, Recreation and Human Services Calendar Update is available on the City of Rochester's web site. Click on the link below (or copy and paste the link into your browser) to view the document. http://www.cityofrochester.gov/prhs/updates/30JUNE06update.pdf
• 06/30/06 - **ACTION** Put a Cap on Global Warming: You’ve probably heard the news reports – the northeast has been pummeled with rain. Fierce thunder and rain storms have inundated low-lying areas, flooding basements, causing evacuations, and bringing down trees and power lines. Unless we take action, global warming will bring more of this. Take action at Friends of the Earth - Action Center
• 6/30/06 -- **EVENT** Sierra Club Book Study Group - Book Study Club discussion: Plan B 2.0: Rescuing a Planet Under Stress and a Civilization in Trouble 2006 by Lester R. Brown. The next meeting of the Sierra Club study group will be Monday, July 10, at 7 pm at the Brighton Public Library. We will discuss the second half of Lester Brown's book, Plan B. This section of the book proposes solutions to the problems discussed in the first half. Let's dedicate the first hour to a focused discussion of these proposals. After the first hour we can open the floor to a wider ranging discussion, continuing our discussion of future actions as begun last meeting, as well as the next book choice and future meeting dates. --from Rochester Regional Group of the Sierra Club
• 6/30/06 -- **EVENT** " FROM STRAWBALE HOUSE TO PRIMITIVE BASKET MAKING" "STRAW BALE CONSTRUCTION FROM THE ARCHITECTURAL PLANS TO THE FINISHED STRUCTURE" In this first of two very different straw bale homes, please join Annie and Mike O'Reilly, owners-builders on FRIDAY, JULY 7 FROM 7PM TO 9PM at their home in Conesus. Straw bale construction is sustainable, affordable, super insulating, and helps build community. This workshop is designed to take you from the plan stage, to the finsihed home. Annie and Mike will share their candid description of the pyhysical work, emotional ups and downs, and details with the use of photos, video presentation, and personal accounts. Refreshments. Directions with registration Registration: $10 (children free) - limited to 20 people. Contact: Mike O'reilly, 585-346-0557, annieandmikeo@juno.com "PRIMITIVE ARTS, A BASKET MAKING WORKSHOP" On SUNDAY, JULY 9 from 1 PM to 4 PM bring your sharp scissors or pruners to the East Hill Farm of the Rochester Folk Art Guild in MIddlesex. Together we will cut branches from diverse trees and bushes to make our melon-style baskets. Darrell Birchenough, educator, is especially skilled in primitive arts. For directions and $15 registration contact Darrell at 585-507-1551 or primitiveskill@aol.com Open to older children and adults. For further information or to be on the Center for Sustainable Living member list, contact Alison Clarke at 585-394-0864. The CSL Mission recognizes the wisdom in natural systems that serve as models for ecological well-being.
• 6/30/06 -- Find out how to save energy & increase renewable energy: Green Power Network: Renewable Energy Certificates Renewable Energy Certificates -Renewable energy certificates (RECs), also known as green certificates, green tags, or tradable renewable certificates, represent the environmental attributes of the power produced from renewable energy projects and are sold separate from commodity electricity. Customers can buy green certificates whether or not they have access to green power through their local utility or a competitive electricity marketer. And they can purchase green certificates without having to switch electricity suppliers.

• 6/30/06 -- Another way to help personally to fight global warming is to Take The Pledge: Take the Pledge - Environmental Defense
• 6/30/06 -- Can you be carbon free?  Not quite.  But, there are a lot of ways you can help reduce your carbon footprints on our Global Warming problem: Check out: NRDC: This Green Life, June 2006 - Footloose and Carbon-free 
• 6/29/06 -- Some good information on flooding: Flood Preparedness  by the New York State Department of Health
• 6/28/06 -- Global Warming -- The Consequences. NPR : Links Between Illness and Global Warming? Fresh Air from WHYY, June 26, 2006 · Dr. Paul Epstein is a physician in Boston, and the associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School. He's created a niche as an eco-physician, exploring the link between increased illness and global warming. Illnesses such as heatstroke, asthma and allergies are the more obvious outcomes of a warmer and more polluted planet, but Epstein says an increase in infectious diseases such as malaria and West Nile virus may also be linked to the greenhouse effect.--from NPR : Fresh Air
• 6/27/06 -- **GOOD/BAD IDEAS**  RGRTA - Rideshare This program helps you and our environment. "With Rideshare you can form a carpool, join an existing one or find the best bus route to work. Carpool with one other person and cut your driving costs in half. Add a third and save even more! Sign your carpool up for the Preferred Parking Program and reserve a parking place in one of the downtown municipal garages." --from RGRTA
• 6/25/06 - I am impressed with the Democrats and Chronicle’s three-part series on lead poisoning in Rochester. Rochester has become a leader in taking efforts to curb the on-going problem of lead, but also a leader in taking on problems it has instead of shoving them under the rug—like our country is in general on our environmental problems. Lead: A Toxic Legacy: Lead paint in deteriorating urban housing has taken its toll on thousands of Rochester children over the past half century. Next Saturday, the city will begin a targeted campaign against lead paint in rental properties, 28 years after the government banned the use of lead paint. Interactive: Effect of lead on the body June, 25, 2006) Democrat and Chronicle
• 6/22/06 - Global Warming is in the news and there are still skeptics. Of course, long before we are absolutely convinced that man-made global warming is occurring at a rapid rate, it will be far to late to do anything about it. But, here’s a story from the main-stream media that seems quite convinced that global warming is occurring.: CNN.com - Study: Earth 'likely' hottest in 2,000 years - Jun 22, 2006
• 6/21/06 -- Nuclear power is a problem, there are no quick fixes.  I see the proliferation of nuclear power as I do the problem of nuclear weapons.  They are one in the same problem.  Witness the trouble we are having determining whether or not Iran is using energy production for peaceful or non-peaceful uses.  But, surely this is not a solution to getting rid of nuclear waste: TURNING NUKE WASTE SITES INTO PLAYGROUNDS "Across the U.S., there are more than 100 sites contaminated by radioactive waste from the nation's nuclear weapons programs. The government is trying to return these Cold War relics to safe and useful purposes. Some of these once toxic zones are being treated much like public parks. The GLRC's Kevin Lavery visited one that was recently opened to the public:" from GLRC
• 6/15906 -- Where to lean more about clean energy? Welcome To Power Naturally Web Site
• 6/15906 --Learn more about an area pests: Caterpillar Pests - NYS DEC
• 6/15906 -- Lead poisoning is a continual concern in Rochester, NY.  Learn more about lead: Living on Earth: The Secret Life of Lead A twenty year study looks at the effects of childhood lead exposure.  Also, check out the city of Rochester's Lead Program: LEAD HAZARD REDUCTION PROGRAM (LHRP)
• 6/15906 -- **EVENT** New Jobs for New York Alternative Energy in New York: Expo 2006 - A Showcase of New York State’s Cutting-Edge Technologies and Resources - featuring keynote speaker - U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton - Monday, June 26, 2006 Hyatt Regency Rochester Rochester, New York 10:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m
• 6/18/06 -- On the newly rebuilt Monroe County web site, the PublicHealth Alerts and Warnings has several useful features: 1. a quick explanation of our new 48 Hours Neighborhood Notification Law, a form for contacting Monroe County for the discovery of a dead crow (which helps in identifying the West Nile Virus problem), how weather tips and more.
• 6/16/06 - Global Warming could have an economic impact for our area: "Wine regions feel the heat By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY In another 50 or so years, the world may be a much different place for wine aficionados, courtesy of global warming. Famed wine-producing areas such as California's Napa Valley and France's Burgundy region may relinquish their supremacy to other lands, experts say, as higher temperatures redefine wine country." --from USATODAY.com - News & Information Homepage
• 6/16/06 - I like the new changes on the Messenger Post newspapers online.  Now you can view the online stories from a host of Rochester-area newspapers and get a better look at our environment.
• 6/16/06 -- Obeying the traffic rules.  Riding bikes is good for the environment these days because you're not burning fossil fuels.  But, you still have to obey the traffic rules.  Check out Rochester's bike rules.
• 6/15/06 -- **EVENT**  GRANTS AVAILABLE TO IMPROVE ROCHESTER’S AIR -What: The Center for Environmental Information through its Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE) Program announces a grant program available to communities for projects that reduce human exposure to air toxics from mobile sources. The CARE Small Grants Program provides U.S. Environmental Protection Agency funding for local projects ranging from $1,000 to $15,000. Projects must result in a reduction of mobile source air toxics and/or an increase in public awareness of the sources and effects of mobile source air toxics. How: Contact Margit Brazda Poirier, CARE Program Manager at 585-314-7869 or www.ceinfo.org  for more information and an application. When: Proposals must be received by September 1, 2006. Why: Mobile source (from cars, buses, snowmobiles, lawn and landscape equipment, etc.) air toxics comprise approximately 56% of the total air toxics in the Rochester region (source: U.S. EPA). Toxic air pollutants, also known as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), are those pollutants that are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects, such as reproductive effects or birth defects, or adverse environmental effects. The U.S. EPA is working with state, local, and tribal governments to reduce air toxics releases of 188 pollutants to the environment. Examples of toxic air pollutants from mobile sources include benzene, acetaldehyde, formaldehyde, 1,3-butadiene, particulate matter, and others.
• 6/15/06 -- **EVENT** Spectacular Garden Tour, Saturday June 17th from 10 AM until 2 PM -- Call Rochesterians Against the Misuse of Pesticides (RAMP) at 381-6489 for tickets or get them at Parkliegh - $12 (or $8 seniors)  - Raffle ticket give out with each tour ticket.
• 6/01/06 -- RochesterEnvironment.Com has been down for a few days because we have changed servers.  Sorry about the hold up, but we're back at it--focusing our attention on one city's environmental situation--the only such comprehensive project in the world (Hey, it's been happening since 1998.)  The RENewsletter will be out in a couple of days. 
•  5/23/06 -- Something to do this summer: Waterfront Regeneration Trust - The Waterfront Trail has been an instrumental part of Lake Ontario’s regeneration. Along it you will find a 740 km celebration of nature and culture – where peaceful countryside, small towns and big cities are linked in bringing Lake Ontario to this province's residents and visitors, alike. Bike it for a day. Or make it a summer-long adventure. The Waterfront Trail will let you discover the Lake Ontario waterfront...and what it can mean to you.
•  5/23/06 -- **EVENT** Global Warming: An Inconvenient Truth RE: Documentary film coming to Rochester, NY, Dates:  16 June Little Theatre -  23 June Pittsford Theatre, call for times. An Inconvenient Truth Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ever experienced. If that sounds like a recipe for serious gloom and doom -- think again. From director Davis Guggenheim comes the Sundance Film Festival hit, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, which offers a passionate and inspirational look at one man's fervent crusade to halt global warming's deadly progress in its tracks by exposing the myths and misconceptions that surround it. That man is former Vice President Al Gore, who, in the wake of defeat in the 2000 election, re-set the course of his life to focus on a last-ditch, all-out effort to help save the planet from irrevocable change. In this eye-opening and poignant portrait of Gore and his "traveling global warming show," Gore also proves himself to be one of the most misunderstood characters in modern American public life. Here he is seen as never before in the media - funny, engaging, open and downright on fire about getting the surprisingly stirring truth about what he calls our "planetary emergency" out to ordinary citizens before it's too late.
•  5/21/06 -- Come on, you got to have wondered... What if Gore had not had the election taken away from him by the supreme court and the Florida officials back in 2000? Would the world be in the mess it is today and Global Warming ignored in our country the way it is today?  Check out an interview with Al Gore in Cannes, France: Cannes Q&A: An Inconvenient Truth
•  5/21/06 -- Trying to fix an environmental problem? Environmental Justice Community Impact Research Grant Program Environmental Justice Community Impact Research Grant Program for Communities Exposed to Multiple Environmental Harms and Risks in New York State - Purpose The DePartment of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) will use Environmental Justice Community Impact Research Grants to provide State assistance funding through Partial advance payment and Partial reimbursement for projects that address exposure of communities to multiple environmental harms and risks.--from New York State Department of Environmental Conservation - Protecting NY's Environment and Managing its Natural Resources  --from an article: Urban groups look to grants - State program sets aside $1M to aid environmental justice efforts — In urban areas, environmental problems are never as simple as a single pipe or a solitary smokestack. Industrial pollution is exacerbated by vehicle exhaust and by the lead paint and mold endemic to some neighborhoods. And too often, the children who develop asthma and other illnesses are those least able to afford medical care and to influence their lawmakers. (May 21, 2006) Democrat and Chronicle
•  5/20/06 -- Learn about helping the Great Lakes: LOCI: Lake Ontario Coastal Initiative The mission of the Lake Ontario Coastal Initiative (LOCI), encompassing all of New York State’s North Coast stakeholders from the Niagara River to the St. Lawrence River, is to enlist and retain broad public commitment for remediation, restoration, protection, conservation and sustainable use of the coastal region. This mission will be accomplished by securing funds and resources to achieve scientific understanding, educate citizens, and implement locally supported priorities, programs and projects as identified through LOCI's Action Agenda, released in 2006 and available on this website.
•  5/20/06 -- Global Warming is real: Joint science academies’ statement: Global response to climate change 7 Jun 2005 Ref: 08/05 -The national science academies of the G8 nations and Brazil, China and India, three of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the developing world, have signed a statement on the global response to climate change. The statement stresses that the scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action and calls on world leaders, including those meeting at the G8 summit at Gleneagles in July 2005, to do the following.
•  5/18/06 -- **EVENT** FREE Recycling for Monroe County Residents Room AC and Household Hazardous Waste Collection Kicks Off Energy $mart Summer - Rochester, NY – On May 20, the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA’s) Stay Cool! program, Monroe County Department of Environmental Services, Eastman Kodak Company, and the New York State Department of Conservation will give area residents the chance to help the environment and kick off their spring cleaning. For no charge, Monroe County area residents may drop off their old, inefficient, room air conditioners at the Household Hazardous Waste and Room AC Turn-In. Knowing that items will be properly recycled, participants can get rid of old electronics such as room ACs and household hazardous wastes. Collections are by appointment only. 585-223-5115 to schedule your appointment. No appointment necessary for room air conditioners. - Household Hazardous Waste and Room AC Turn-In Event: May 20, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Perinton Department of Public Works 100 Cobbs Lane, Fairport NY 585-223-5115 -  For more information on the Stay Cool! program, as well as other energy efficiency programs, visit www.GetEnergySmart.org  or call 1-877-NY-SMART (1-877-697-6278). Make it an energy smart summer! SM

•  5/18/06 -- This just in.  Eco-Action Day: From, Chris Brush Park Road Community Service: "The students of Park Road Elementary at 50 Park Rd in Pittsford are having a full day of environmental activity on May 19th. We are calling it Eco-Action Day. The students will be hearing speakers from the Monroe County DEC (Kimie Romeo), will have an assembly featuring Greta Garbage and will be touring the Powder Mill Fish Hatchery. Other activities are a simulated "dumpster dive", a demonstration on the effects of e-waste, and a chance to test the water quality in Powder Mills Park. We also have art activities such as decorating stickers and paper bags with environmental messages to provide to local businesses. The older students will be decorating 55 gallon drums to collect cans and bottles on the playgrounds. We have lots of great information about recycling and waste on our bulletin boards and have an environmental quiz posted on the web site. We are looking forward to a great day of environmental enlightenment! (Rain date May 22)."
•  5/17/06 -- Here's something you can do for the environment from The National Wildlife Federation: Take your garden to the next level!
  Turn your backyard into a wildlife-friendly habitat and help celebrate 70 years of conservation! Through NWF's Backyard Wildlife Habitat^TM (BWH) program, you can take a hands-on approach in helping wildlife - wherever you live! It doesn't matter if your home is a farm in the country, a house in the suburbs, or even an apartment in the city; it's easy to create a habitat for birds, butterflies and other wildlife. Our BWH program gives you all the information you'll need! For over 30 years, NWF's Backyard Wildlife Habitat sites have helped to make a place for wildlife in the modern world, while at the same time helping both kids and adults connect with the nature just outside their door. To date, we've certified over 60,000 habitat sites-special places that provide the essentials for attracting enjoyable wildlife. And now, in celebration of the National Wildlife Federation's 70^th anniversary this year, we've set forth a goal of certifying the 70,000^th Backyard Wildlife Habitat site. Certify your yard today and you can help get us there!
•  5/17/06 -- **EVENT** TUESDAY NATURE NIGHTS "GUIDED BIKE RIDES - The City's Bureau of Parks & Recreation features outdoor trail activities which focus on the beauty of Rochester's natural surroundings and healthy living through its "Tuesday Nature Nights" series, every Tue., 6:15 p.m. - 8 p.m., May 30 - Sept. 5. City staff guide FREE tours for all ages on bicycles, on foot or in canoes to various natural areas within the city. The walks and rides are leisurely with slight grade changes and are mostly on paths or sidewalks. No pre-registration is necessary, except for the Outrigger Canoe Paddles. Due to quickly changing summer weather conditions, any cancellations due to weather will be made on site at start time. Tuesday Nature Nights – a component of the City's Flower City Looking Good Program for gardeners and environmentalists – are supported by Preferred Care, Democrat and Chronicle and Wegmans. For further information on any of these nature programs, call 428-6770, or visit www.cityofrochester.gov  or www.democratandchronicle.com/ads/flowercity/2006 . Nine leisurely, guided bike rides (on level terrain and under 10 miles) will focus on Rochester's outstanding trail system and the Genesee River and Erie Canal. Rides will leave from various departure points from a different neighborhood each week. They last approximately one hour, beginning at 6:15 p.m. Helmets are required.
•  0513/06 -- Recycling: just on common sense, it's always best to recycling and keep trashing from going into the ground.  Here's a new website to help you recycle more: RecycleinME is a marketplace for scrap metal, non metal scrap, plastic scrap, rubber scrap and paper scrap. Here you will find scrap metal, scrap metal prices, scrap metal suppliers, , scrap metal buyers, scrap metal offer to buy and sell along with other various categories of scrap. Register Now and start receiving business leads.
•  05/12/06 - **ACTION**   Good News! The Assembly passed the Bigger Better Bottle Bill yesterday by a vote of 92 to 45.  -  After some last minute lobbying, Assemblyman David Koon voted in SUPPORT of this important measure to reduce litter and increase recycling. Also in the Monroe County area, Assemblywoman Susan John voted in support of the bill, and Assemblymembers Errigo, Morelle, Gantt, and Reilich voted against it. If you called Koon and John (and even if you didn't) please THANK them for their support! The bill now moves to the Senate, where it is sponsored by Senator Kenneth LaValle. Please call your senator and urge him or her to support Senate Bill 1290-D! The Senate switchboard is 518-455-2800. We only have a few weeks to go before the end of session. Please forward this action alert to all of your lists! ACTION ALERT! Support Cleaner Communities and More Recycling! Urge your State Senator to VOTE YES on the Bigger, Better Bottle Bill! (S1290) It's time to update and expand New York's bottle bill to increase recycling and make our communities cleaner. The State Assembly passed the bill on May 10th. We now have just a few weeks left to pass this bill in the Senate. Please call, write or e-mail your State Senator and urge him/her to VOTE YES on the "Bigger, Better Bottle Bill" (S1290) How to Contact Your State Senator To find out who your State Senator is, go to http://nymap.elections.state.ny.us/nysboe/ or contact your local Board of Elections. You can get their contact information by visiting http://www.senate.state.ny.us/senatehomepage.nsf/senators?OpenForm  , or call the Senate Switchboard at 518-455-2800 and ask to be transferred to your state Senator. Handwritten letters and calls to their district offices are the most effective! Background The “Bigger, Better Bottle Bill,” A2517D/S1290D, introduced by Assemblyman Thomas P. DiNapoli and Senator Kenneth LaValle, would update the bottle bill, New York's most effective recycling and litter prevention program, to include non-carbonated beverages like bottled water and iced tea. It would also require beverage companies to return unclaimed deposits to the State Environmental Protection Fund to fund recycling and other environmental programs. We all share responsibility for keeping our communities clean and healthy. But each year that state lawmakers fail to close the “litter loophole,” nearly two billion bottles and cans end up in the trash or polluting our state’s rivers, streams and neighborhoods. It is time for the Assembly and Senate to update the most successful anti-pollution law in New York’s history by passing the Bigger Better Bottle Bill. According to the Container Recycling Institute, expanding the bottle bill would capture about two billion bottles and cans per year that would otherwise end up clogging our landfills or polluting our rivers, streams, and communities. It would also generate as much as $179 million a year to help protect New York’s environment. But the beer and soda companies and the food merchants are hard at work trying to kill this bill. It took tremendous grassroots pressure to get the Assembly to pass the Bigger Better Bottle Bill -- your letters, calls and e-mails made the difference! On May 10th, the Assembly passed the bill with a strong bipartisan majority of 92 to 45. Now we need to turn our attention to the State Senate, which has never voted on the Bigger Better Bottle Bill. The bill is sponsored in the Senate by Senator Kenneth LaValle (R-Suffolk), and cosponsored by Senators Bonacic, Leibell, Maltese, Marchi, Padavan and Parker. Call your senator and urge him or her to support Senate Bill 1290-D! Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on the Bigger Better Bottle Bill: “The bottle bill is the single most effective recycling and anti-litter law that we have. It is time to improve the law by adding deposits on non-carbonated beverages and using the unclaimed nickels to bolster the Environmental Protection Fund. I applaud the State Assembly for passing this vitally important legislation and urge the Senate to do the same,” said New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Other Things You can Do to Support the Bigger Better Bottle Bill: - Send a letter to the editor to your local newspaper - Ask any organizations you belong to to endorse the Bigger Better Bottle Bill - Circulate a petition in your school or office -For more information contact: Laura Haight Senior Environmental Associate NYPIRG 107 Washington Ave. Albany, NY 12210 (518) 436-0876, ext. 258 (518) 432-6178 (fax) LHaight@nypirg.org  
•  5/11/06 -- **EVENT** NET Director Molly Clifford today announced that the Neighborhood Empowerment Team, Community Development and Law Department will host two information forums for property owners on the City's new lead legislation, at 9 - 10:30 a.m., Sat., May 13 and 7 - 8:30 p.m., Thu., May 18 in City Council Chambers, 30 Church St. NET, DCD and Law staff will present the City's implementation plan for the first year of the lead ordinance, passed in Dec., 2005 by City Council. The new, comprehensive ordinance is designed to make Rochester's rental housing stock lead safe over the next three years by a combination of inspection and testing, interim controls of properties with lead paint, and education of tenants and landlords on the dangers of lead to children. Agencies that provide Lead Safe Work Practice Training and other resources related to lead hazard control will be in attendance.
•  5/11/06 -- RETV - For awhile RochesterEnvironment.com is not going to be on TV.  We'll let you know if this program is going back on air. 
•  5/06/06 -- Just common sense: If our environment was in good condition, would there be a necessity by the New York State Department of Health of issue such a comprehensive list of warning for eating sport fish and game?  Actually, our streams are contaminated and so are the game in them. 
•  05/06/06 -- Things are not getting better: IUCN News - Release of the 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Release of the 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reveals ongoing decline of the status of plants and animals The number of known threatened species reaches 16,119. The ranks of those facing extinction are joined by familiar species like the polar bear, hippopotamus and desert gazelles; together with ocean sharks, freshwater fish and Mediterranean flowers. Positive action has helped the white-tailed eagle and offers a glimmer of hope to Indian vultures. Geneva, Switzerland, 2 May 2006 (IUCN) – The total number of species declared officially Extinct is 784and a further 65 are only found in captivity or cultivation. Of the 40,177 species assessed using the IUCN Red List criteria, 16,119 are now listed as threatened with extinction. This includes one in three amphibians and a quarter of the world’s coniferous trees, on top of the one in eight birds and one in four mammals known to be in jeopardy.
•  05/06/06 -- New interactive site by the EPA: RadTown USA | U.S. EPA Explore this interactive, virtual community of houses, schools, laser light shows, construction equipment, flying planes, and moving trains. Each place in RadTown helps you learn about radiation sources or radiation- treated items you might find there. Welcome To RadTown USA | RadTown USA | US EPA