Voices and Visions

Stories from a movement creating a healthier world
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The HEFN Stories Project showcases the work that people are doing to promote environmental health and environmental justice. Submit your own audio, video, or text to share your stories or vision for the future.

Mind, Disrupted

Mind, Disrupted

Twelve leaders and self-advocates from the learning and developmental disabilities community recently stepped forward to have their bodies tested for the presence of a set of known or suspected neurotoxic or endocrine-disrupting chemicals. Mind, Disrupted is a synthesis of the results of these tests and the experiences of the participants, and this report is intended to spotlight these pressing questions and prompt actions to reduce these exposures that may impair how we think -- and, in the most basic ways, who we are. Read more »

Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative

Building Support for a Global Mercury Treaty

Mercury Policy Project (MPP) presents a hopeful view of building a Global Mercury Treaty to protect families around the world from mercury contamination. Read more »

Mercury Policy Project

UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

This is a story about health, but it's not about doctors or drugs. It's about why some of us get sicker more often and die sooner in the first place. Read more »

Unnatural Causes

Why Spend Out - The Beldon Story

Why Spend Out - The Beldon Story

How the Beldon Fund, an environmental health funder, handled the implications of putting the foundation on a spend-out course while seeking to accomplish an ambitious mission. Read more »

Beldon Fund

Toxic Chemicals in Kids' Products

This is an Ecology Center interview of Pete Myers, Environmental Health Sciences, talking about toxic chemicals in everyday products. Read more »

Ecology Center

Audio Interview with Sandra Steingraber

This is a New School audio interview of Sandra Steingraber by Michael Lerner. Read more »

Commonweal