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Environmental Health News

Daily aggregation of news from around the world about environmental factors affecting human health.

Household Hazards: Potential Hazards of Home Cleaning Products

A report that provides detailed information about household cleaning products - Monoethanolamine (MEA), Ammonium quaternary compounds, Glycol ethers, Alkyl phenol ethoxylates (APEs), Phthalates - and the harmful affects they have on human health.

Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta

This is a link to the EJ Resource Center website hosted by Clark Atlanta University.

Funders Committee on Civic Participation resources

This is a link to FCCP's resource listings on civic participation and civic engagement.

Healthy Alternatives for Your Home and Family

An easy description of how you can minimize your exposure to everyday chemicals that may be harmful to your health and the health of your family, pets and the environment. The everyday chemicals are grouped into three easy categories: cleaning products, cosmetics and personal care products and home and garden pest control.

SRI Call for Applications

A description of the application process for new breast cancer research initiatives this year through the California Breast Cancer Research Program (* with fast approaching deadlines). The link provides a description of the application process, estimated number of awards and amounts to be given, deadlines, start dates, research opportunities and other links to application materials, directions, past initiatives and more.

Alliance for Justice

This links to Alliance for Justice's resources for non-profits and foundations interested in civic engagement and public policy.

Pushback Network

This is a link to the website of the Pushback Network.

State Health Tracking - Trust for America's Health

Trust For America's Health developed a state health tracking tool that enables users to explore a state's health as it compares to national trends, including statistics on asthma, obesity, cancer, HIV rates, as well as dollars that are spent in the state on health and public health initiatives.

Why We Need Green Chemistry

This fact sheet, developed by Clean Production Action, Ecology Center, Kentucky Environmental Foundation, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Biomimicry Institute, explains how green chemistry differs from traditional chemistry, what it's benefits are, and how it is being used today.

Why Promote Green Chemistry

This fact sheet, developed by Clean Production Action, Ecology Center, Kentucky Environmental Foundation, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and the Biomimicry Institute, explores what green chemistry is and why and how people should promote its use.

Keep Antibiotics Working

Keep Antibiotics Working website

Securing our Survival: Meeting the Threats of Nuclear Weapons and Global Warming

Over two hundred people gathered at the University of Pittsburgh on Friday, October 12, to hear national and internationally known experts talk about the most pressing issues of our time: the dangers posed to our planet by global warming and nuclear weapons. Hundreds more in the US and abroad participated via a web broadcasting of the event. The conference brought together students, academics, and community members to not only discuss the security and public health threats posed by nuclear weapons and global warming, but to hear about solutions that can help lead us to a healthier and more secure world. A half-day session on Saturday, October 13th brought together local and state activists with national PSR leaders to discuss specific ways to address the issues, as well as a way for disarmament and global warming activists to collaborate in sharing their concerns with political leaders and the general public. The uniqueness of the conference was noted by a number of speakers, who reflected, not only on the importance of confronting these major threats to survival, but on the links between the issues. For example, pursuing increased reliance on nuclear power to confront global warming brings its own problems through heightened proliferation dangers and the health risks associated with the transportation and handling of nuclear waste. Noted speakers included Joseph Cirincione, of the Center for American Progress, Doug Shaw, PSR, and Brenda Ekwurzel of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Skin Deep - Cosmetics Safety Database

This database, developed and maintained by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), enables users to assess the safety of the personal care products they and their families use and explore safer alternatives.

Clean New York website

 

Speaker Presentations from PSR Conference: The Health Consequences of Global Warming

Existence of the human species depends directly on the health and condition of our planet. Pollutants contributing to global warming contribute to a wide range of phenomena affecting human health and security. The consequences of rapidly changing climate are already felt by many of the more vulnerable populations on earth. Despite the evidence pointing to the gravity and urgency of the threat to health and security posed by global warming, many do not yet perceive these threats to be substantial, and many of those who do are uncertain about what interventions are needed. This conference examined the chains of cause and effect that create climate change and consequent threats to human health. To render these linkages more comprehensible and immediate, climate change was framed within its direct and indirect threats to health and human rights by integrating perspectives and methods from such disparate disciplines as medicine, law, business, religion, and environmental science. The conference concluded by highlighting successful interventions being implemented across the U.S. and other parts of the globe. By the conference conclusion, health care providers and public health policy framers understood the range of effective action steps needed for both primary prevention and ameliorating the adverse impacts on human health and human rights due to rapid global climate change.

Toxic Free NC

Toxic Free NC is a resource-based website provided by the Agricultural Resources Center (ARC) and the Pesticide Education Project (PESTed) which discusses the many uses and dangers of pesticides. The site focuses on five main topics: Resources for Activists, Farmworkers and Pesticides, Toxic-Free Kids, Alternatives (to pesticides) and Pesticide Spray Drift.

Science & Environmental Health Network: Precautionary Principle

The Science & Environmental Health Network provides a list of essays that discuss the issues surrounding precautionary principles and the resulting effects on the environment.

Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment

The Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment is a part of the National Center for Excellence in Women’s Health in the University of California’s Medical Center. The program focuses on furthering epidemiological research, education, policy analysis and proposal development of environmental reproductive health issues. Specifically, the program aims to gain a greater public understanding of the potentially dangerous effects of chemical exposures on reproductive health.

Cape Cod Breast Cancer and Environment Atlas

By using a geographic information system (GIS), the Silent Spring Institute – working with Applied Geographics, Inc., MassGIS and the Cape Cod Commission – has created an innovative mapping system that looks for overlapping patterns in breast cancer incidence and environmental features.