Union working for heart health

The American Heart Association's Heart Walks are under way in locales throughout the state. The walks help raise funds for research into heart disease and promote heart health and physical activity, NYSUT Vice President Kathleen Donahue noted.

NYSUT is a sponsor of the 16th annual Capital District Heart Walk, which will be held Oct. 18 in Albany. Log on to www.kintera.com/spherelite/public/asp/eventcentral.asp?orgid=22 to donate or take part in a walk near you.

NEA to conduct air quality training

Register by Oct. 20 for an indoor air quality training program to be conducted by the National Education Association's Health Information Network.

The training will be held Dec. 3-6, just prior to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's annual Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools National Symposium in Washington, D.C.

NEA will provide limited funding for participants. Check out www.neahin.org/programs/symposium.htm or contact Jamila Boddie at (202) 822-7768 or jboddie@nea.org.

Save trees: Recycle at home

Did you know: If every household in the United States replaced one roll of virgin fiber paper towels (70 sheets) with 100 percent recycled ones, we could save 544,000 trees.

The National Resources Defense Council says that figure would jump to more than 2 million if every household also made a similar change with toilet paper, facial tissues and napkins.