From the Frontlines: Gulf Stories with Wilma Subra
Voices from the spill and the end of fishing in the Gulf. Read more »
Health & Environmental Funders Network
Stories from a movement creating a healthier world
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.
2010 Women’s Health & the Environment Conference
Teresa Heinz was joined by a sell-out audience at the 2010 Women's Health & the Environment Conference where attendees learned more about the effects environmental exposures have on women's health and the importance of prevention Read more »
Health & Environmental Funders Network
President's Cancer Panel: Environmentally caused cancers are 'grossly underestimated' and 'needlessly devastate American lives.'
The panel advised President Obama "to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air..." Read more »
Health & Environmental Funders Network
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota Foundation Grantee Story
Grantee Story highlighting work of the National Center for Healthy Housing, Worthington, Minnesota. Read more »
BCBS of Minnesota Foundation
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
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