Kaiser Permanent's Award
Congratulations to Kaiser Permanente for winning the Socially Responsible Medicine Award from Physicians for Social Responsibility. KP is being recognized for outstanding work in green building, environmentally preferable purchasing and sustainable operations. Read more about KP's achievements here: http://www.psrla.org/KaiserPerm anente.htm
Added on May 23, 2007 by RachelCarson100
Measuring Chemicals in People: Promises & Pitfalls
Wednesday, May 30, 2007, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Measuring Chemicals in People: Promises and Pitfalls, A forum sponsored by the Massachusetts Public Health Association's Environmental and Occupational Health Section, Co-sponsored by the Boston University Superfund Basic Research Program at the MPHA offices, 434 Jamaicaway, Boston. Speakers: Tom Webster , DSc, Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University School of Public Health; Jessica Nelson , MPH, Conference Coordinator, Boston Consensus Conference on Biomonitoring. Biomonitoring is the practice of measuring chemicals in people's bodies. As the technology has improved, biomonitoring is increasingly being used by health agencies and advocacy organizations, with California just establishing the first statewide surveillance program. This meeting will provide an overview of biomonitoring -- what it is and how it's being used -- as well as address some of the significant ethical and policy questions raised by this issue.
For more information, contact Eric Weltman, MPHA: 617-524-6696, ext. 111; eweltman@mphaweb.org Directions available on the MPHA web site
Added on May 22, 2007 by RachelCarson100
A Sense of Wonder on Cape Cod 1 & 7:30 p.m.
On Saturday, June 9, the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster will present two performances of A Sense of Wonder, a play based on the life and works of Rachel Carson. Performances on June 9 at 1:00 pm and 7:30 pm. $16/member, $20/non-member Written and performed by Kaiulani Lee, the play has been the centerpiece of regional and national conferences on conservation, education, journalism, and the environment. It is being performed at the Museum as part of the national exhibit, Awakening Nature's Voice, celebrating the centennial of Ms. Carson's birth. http://www.kaiulanilee.com/schedule.html
Added on May 21, 2007 by RachelCarson100
UU Service to Celebrate Carson's 100th
Sunday May 27 10:30 am-1:30 pm UU Sunday Service to Celebrate Rachel Carson's 100th Birthday At First Parish Unitarian Universalist in Cambridge, 3 Church Street
Rita Arditti, cofounder of the Women's Community Cancer Project (WCCP), Kathleen Attfield, Staff Scientist at the Silent Spring Institute, and Wendy Irvine, UU Mass Bay District Green Sanctuary Program, will contribute to a service that celebrates Carson's life and explores current efforts to continue her work. Ms. Arditti will give details on creation of the public mural at 10 Church Street, painted by Be Sargent and commissioned by the WCCP in 1998, its topic is the Precautionary Principle and prominently features Rachel Carson as one of twelve social activist women who have died prematurely of cancer. Learn more about the mural here: http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0399/039904.htm Silent Spring Institute is a non-profit scientific research organization dedicated to identifying the links between the environment and women's health, especially breast cancer, http://www.silentspring.org/. The National UU Green Sanctuary Program assists a congregation to live out its commitment to the Earth by creating a sustainable life style for its members as individuals and as a faith community, http://uuministryforearth.org/grs_overview.htm
Added on May 19, 2007 by RachelCarson100
An American Self-Portrait
Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition, or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is still in its early stages, and new images will be posted as they are completed, so please stay tuned.
~cj, Seattle, January 2007
Added on May 18, 2007 by RachelCarson100
School IAQ Walkthru Video
Put this link into your browser to see the interactive web based video, produced by Rutgers University with a Region 2 EPA grant, and aimed at assisting
school districts, especially urban school districts, in performing the
walkthrough portion of the IAQ Tools for Schools program.
http://urbantfs.digiscript.com /
Added on May 17, 2007 by RachelCarson100
Pesticide Drift and California School Children
An Associated Press investigation has found that over the past decade,
hundreds, possibly thousands, of schoolchildren in California and other
agricultural states have been exposed to farm chemicals linked to sickness,
brain damage and birth defects.
See full story at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id /18681428/from/ET/
Added on May 16, 2007 by RachelCarson100
Act for a Healthy Tomorrow
Added on May 16, 2007 by RachelCarson100
Added on May 10, 2007 by RachelCarson100
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