Healthy Kids Campaign and more....
Every Child Deserves a Healthy Start Beginning with a Healthy Environment
Oregaon Environmental Council online http://www.oeconline.org
Added on June 13, 2007 by RachelCarson100
You Can Help Grow Organics
The EWG Action Fund needs your help to keep safe and healthy food options on our farms, in our grocery stores, and on our dinner tables. Add your name to the Grow Organics petition and join thousands of Americans in standing up for safe, pesticide-free produce. With your support we can continue to expand safe, healthy produce options for families everywhere. You Can Help Grow Organics Sign the Petition Today
Added on June 13, 2007 by RachelCarson100
Added on June 13, 2007 by RachelCarson100
Colony Collapse Disorder and more...
I was alarmed to learn that honeybees are disappearing. The phenomenon has been labeled Colony Collapse Disorder. It started late last year with beekeepers finding hives without adult bees. It seems to have spread throughout North America and is now being seen in Europe. [Read more...]
...Public health officials tell us that we're in the clutches of an obesity and diabetes epidemic. An ideology has developed around this issue, too, that focuses on bad diets and lack of exercise, framed as lifestyle choices or less charitably as gluttony and sloth. However, a recent study points to exposure to persistent organic pollutants, such pesticides, as substantially increasing the risk of insulin resistance, obesity, and diabetes. Hardly a lifestyle choice... [Read more...]
http://www.yourownhealthandfitness.org/blogs/2007/06/12/colony-collapse-disorder/
Added on June 13, 2007 by RachelCarson100
Added on June 09, 2007 by RachelCarson100
Responding to smear attacks
Added on June 09, 2007 by RachelCarson100
FoodMed '07 June 28 - 29 Boston
FoodMed '07 is an exciting one and a half day conference about Healthier Food in Healthcare designed to help you promote sustainable and nutritious food purchasing in your facilities, June 28th and 29th, 2007 at the Seaport World Trade Center Boston. Presentations will be geared towards senior healthcare executives, nurses, physicians, dietitians, food service directors and food procurement and distribution professionals. Dietitians can receive up to 9 hours of CPEUs for attendance at FoodMed 07.
A room block has been set aside with a special group rate at the adjoining Seaport Boston Hotel. If you are calling the hotel to make your reservations, please refer to booking code HCOH. The Hotel's phone number is 1.877.732.7678. Go to www.FoodMed.org to register. For more information, please contact us at: info@foodmed.org
Added on June 08, 2007 by RachelCarson100
Added on June 08, 2007 by RachelCarson100
Linda Lear responds to demonization of Carson
http://www.earthsky.org/article/linda-lear-guest-post Listen to a 9-minute podcast with Linda Lear from the Earth & Sky Clear Voices podcast series. Read or listen to a 90-second Earth & Sky radio show featuring Linda Lear: The legacy of Rachel Carson Rachel Carson would be one hundred years old on Sunday, May 27. A nature writer and ecologist whose lyric writing made the science of oceanography understandable to the general public in her international best selling book, The Sea Around Us (1951), Carson never wavered in her desire to make us aware of our connectedness to the natural world. Writing in a time before ecology was recognized as a science, Rachel Carson wanted to instill in us "a sense of wonder" so compelling that we would lose our appetite for destruction and care for the perpetuation of the natural world that sustains us all. She died in 1964 just eighteen-months after her landmark book Silent Spring was published. It was a book about death, our own and potentially nature's, by a woman who was committed to the continuation of all life. Silent Spring has been called many things over the past forty-five years. For many, it was the book that began the environmental movement of the 20th century; the book which sounded the alarm over human kind's ability to alter nature and thus our planet's future irrevocably. To others it was polemic which overstated the case for the damage caused by the use of synthetic chemical pesticides. The truth is that Rachel Carson never called for the banning of DDT and never suggested in Silent Spring that pesticides not be used. Her research suggested that chemical pesticides were being used inefficiently, ineffectively and indiscriminately. (If a little was good, a lot more was better.) She worried about the chemical mixture that was being laid on the land and its ultimate the effects on soil, water, animal and human life in the long run. The US did not ban the domestic application of DDT until January 1972. It never banned the domestic manufacture or export of DDT or of its latter day sister synthetic pesticides. DDT has continued to be exported, used and misused, in almost every country around the globe. It is found in every atoll island, in every ice cap, and in the liver of most species of birds and fish. Insects, especially those mosquitos carrying infectious diseases like malaria quickly became resistant to DDT, and the disease returned, and will continue to return. But to assign responsibility to Rachel Carson or her writings for the persistence of malaria is a tragic misrepresentation of her book and her ideals, as well as deeply misinformed science. Carson hoped that technology, eg. pesticides, would be used responsibility. She believed that the "obligation to endure" gave us the right to question not just whether a thing could be done, but whether it should be done. This desire to perpetuate life is Carson's deepest legacy, and it is one which we should celebrate today. -- Linda Lear
Added on June 08, 2007 by RachelCarson100
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