Healthy Legacy began as a joint project of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Clean Water Action of Minnesota in the summer of 2006. With the addition of six steering committee organizations, the program has developed to represent a broad spectrum of interests including healthcare, citizens with disabilities, environmental justice, and environmental health. We look forward to expanding the coalition and continuing our work to leave a legacy for our children that leaves them safe, healthy and with prospects for reaching their full potential.

Vision and mission

Vision: We envision healthy people, safe communities, a clean environment and a thriving economy.

Mission: Healthy Legacy promotes healthy lives by supporting the production and use of everyday products without toxic chemicals. We advocate for consumer education, business leadership, and protective policies to advance safe alternatives in Minnesota.

Healthy Legacy promotes:

Consumer education

Healthy Legacy will educate and empower people to protect themselves and their children by encouraging them to support healthy businesses and practices.

Business leadership

Healthy Legacy will encourage businesses to protect our health and environment from toxic chemicals through the development and use of safe substitutes. Investing in clean technologies creates new jobs, profitable new markets for farmers and industry, and increases worker safety.

Protective policies

Healthy Legacy promotes phasing out the most toxic chemicals and those that persist and build up in our bodies and the environment. We support safe substitutes and solutions.

For common questions and answers about the coalition and our work view the Healthy Legacy FAQs.