LocalMotionGreen was created to raise public awareness about the links between environmental toxins and cancer in an effort to influence personal behavior to promote improved health and quality of life.

LocalMotionGreen was specifically inspired by lifelong Grosse Pointer Elizabeth Cadwell Dance's 1989 diagnosis of malignant melanoma and her subsequent 1993 lung cancer death. Significant inspiration also came from the March, 1999, lung cancer diagnosis and subsequent August death of Lynn W. Day, who also lived in Grosse Pointe. Ellen Hickey Grayson, who grew up in Grosse Pointe and beat Hodgkin's Disease in 1986 only to be diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer in January, 1999, when her daughter was seven months old, helped shape the organization. She died on May 26, 2000.

Other inspirations include: Eunie Jewett, Peggy Marsh, Mary Kate Hastings, Alice Valk, Louise Mooney (mid-thirties), Buckle Wotherspoon, Annie Peabody (mid-thirties), Janet Bogle, Sally Johnson, Mary Whims, Bob McBride, Sherman FitzSimons, Jake Wardwell, Cliffy Ford, Wally Ford, Bill Hickey, Bill Curtis, Peter Fink, Sabra Dalby (late twenties), Bill Finkenstaedt, J.P. McCarthy, Peter van Osdol, Paul Hostetter, Dick Williams, Sally Anderson, Alice Steinbach, and Mel Cunningham all of whom are dead due to cancers of the breast, lung, colon or pancreas or because of malignant melanoma or leukemia myelodysplasia.

Additional inspiration has come from Grosse Pointers currently enduring multiple myeloma or cancers of the mouth, brain, kidney and other areas and from those unnamed who have died from cancer.

Lifelong Grosse Pointer Robb Baubie, in his early forties and the father of three small children, who died of lung cancer in July, 2000, also contributed inspiration, as has survivor Louise W. Hudson, who suffered and survived a brain tumor when she was six years old. Ms. Hudson grew up in Grosse Pointe.

These lives, diagnosis and deaths encouraged Elizabeth Ellen Dance to treat the well-documented possibility that environmental toxins can cause cancer with respect because her hometown, Grosse Pointe, is located in one of the most industrialized areas of Michigan. She created LocalMotionGreen because while research into a cure for cancer is making strides, it has been, to date, unsuccessful. It occurred to Elizabeth, as it has to a multitude of others, that prevention is the only reasonable cure. She realizes that prevention is only possible when people understand possible causes. She hopes that by publicizing information about possible causes, she will inspire others to help prevent cancer and thereby diminish the emotional and economic suffering that stems from it.

LocalMotionGreen was incorporated on August 30, 1999. The Board of Directors and Advisory Council are composed of community leaders as well as nationally recognized medical authorities, scientists, academics and activists.