Episode 1 - Angie's List Lead Safety Tour [8:33m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
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Four hundred thousand children currently suffer from lead poisoning, almost exclusively from exposure in their homes. An Angie’s List Magazine investigation of nearly 200 contractors found that one third gave unsafe advice about basic lead safety practices on home projects, causing a danger to everyone involved, especially children. In the first episode of List-en up!, we visit one of the first stops of the Angie’s List Lead Safety Tour, which aims to educate homeowners, parents, and contractors about basic lead safety practices. In Indianapolis, we talk to lead safety experts about the dangers of lead poisoning and how to avoid it. We also meet some concerned parents who had their children tested for lead poisoning.
Thankfully, lead poisoning is avoidable. To encourage and spread awareness about lead safety, the Angie’s List Lead Safety Tour features:
- Blood lead level testing for children
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-approved training for contractors who work with lead-based paint
- Informal seminar for homeowners about what they need to know when hiring a contractor who will disturb lead-based paint
- Tutorial for do-it-yourselfers who might disturb lead-based paint
For more info, dates and locations near you, go to leadsafety.angieslist.com.
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Great job on the webpage and the podcast! Very informative, can’t wait to hear the next one. This is really a wonderful public service. Keep up the good work!
Really nice job! It sounds great!
Nice work! Sounds great. I like the music too.
Informative. Interesting. And the music really sticks with you. When will you post the next installment?
Great stuff here! Exhaustive and entertaining. Great input throughout the entire episode.
Tristan, good job with your podcast website and program. Well done! Lets talk about some ideas that I have for you to enhance it even more.
This sounds fantastic!!
Thanks for the kind words, everyone! In case you’re wondering: the second episode is indeed in production and will be released soon… promise!
I don’t find the lead based china toys a real issue, being an old timer, I grew up during a time when there were zero safety organizations. All the toys we played with as a child were probably lead based, yet I don’t ever recall any of friends or relatives or schoolmates getting ill as a result. The myriad of diseases created today by the drug corporations so they can sell more drugs is an example of what I see as the USA becoming a hypochondriac over protective society. Take a pill and your problems are solved– call me hard headed but I don’t buy into it. I tend to agree with the statement that the home has more problems with lead than toys and such things. But to be honest, when I was growing up in Dallas, Texas, I don’t remember anything like people getting sick from mold/lead in their homes, or bad water, or shocked by unprotected wall sockets. Of course, I’m not saying that some of things didn’t happen— but if they did they were rare and did not make the newspapers. There was not this steady and growing drumbeat of danger around ever corner to your health. The number one threat to USA in my opinion is the trend toward being overweight, a lack of exercise and a very unhealthy diet. Today, we can’t even get out of our car to go inside a food joint to pick up our food– everyone has a drive thru. And how was your day?????
My day has been fine so far, though it’s still early. Thanks for asking, Dan!
Seriously though, I understand what you’re saying. My Grandmother ate lead paint chips off her home’s walls when she was a child starving for food during World War II-era Germany, and she lived a rather long life. But knowing what we know today, I think the important aspect of lead paint poisoning is awareness: though many homes do have lead paint in them, simple protective measures can go a long way to preventing lifelong health issues (the same can be said for being overweight, as you mention.) We’re just trying to share some wisdom without being harbingers of lead-based paint doom
Thanks for your comments!