Environmental Health
Articles and slide shows covering an array of topics in environmental health.
Slide Shows:
*Environmental Degradation and Social Injustice
Comprehensive slide show covering consequences of environmental degradation and social injustice
Environmental toxins
Slide show on environmental toxins
*GE-NY-Presbyterian Hospital Agreement
Slide show re troubling arrangement between corporate polluter and human rights-abusing company and large hospital system
Greenwash, pseudoscience, and scientific ignorance.ppt
Slide show covering corporate greenwash, pseudoscience, and scientific ignorance
Housing and Health.ppt
Slide show on housing and health – by Koreishi and Wickham
*Minimata Disease and the Photography of W Eugene Smith
Slide show on Minimata Disease, mercury toxicity, W Eugene Smith’s photography, and famous photographs relevant to public health and social justice
*Symbols of Love – Flowers, Diamonds, and Gold
Slide show on adverse health and environmental consequences of flowers, gold, and diamonds
Articles:
*Bottled Water: Health and Environmental Risks – Portland Tribune
Letter re costs and health and environmental risks of bottled water
Climate change – overview and solutions – Thomasson
Handout on climate change – by Catherine Thomasson
Coal Power Plant, PGE, Boardman, OR – Background
Background re PGE’s Boardman, OR Coal Plant from the Sierra Club, 6-10
Coal Power Plant, PGE, Boardman, OR – Talking Points
Talking points for Public Utilities Commission re closing PGE’s Boardman, OR Coal Plant, 6-10
Coal Power Plant, PGE, Boardman, OR – Testimony for PUC
Testimony for Public Utilities Commission re closing PGE’s Boardman, OR Coal Plant, 6-10.
*Combating corporate control of public health – Z Magazine
Article examining corporate control of public health, education, the media, legislators, etc., including examples and solutions
Corporate Front Groups & Abuse of Science – Z Mag
Article describing corporate front groups and the abuse of science, focusing on ACSH
*Corporate Front Groups and Abuse of Science – Z Mag – with background and references
Article describing corporate front groups and abuse of science, focusing on ACSH, with background and references
destruction of smallpox stores
Call for destruction of smallpox virus stores from AJPH
ELCAP-Vector-Cornell COI bioethics listserv posts 4-08
Posts to bioethics listserv re conflict of interest disclosures relevant to ELCAP study re CT screening for lung cancer
*Environmental Degradation and Social Injustice – Soc Sci Med
Article on health consequences of environmental degradation and social injustice
EPA Library Closures LO Review 5-07 with Update 9-08.doc
Editorial re EPA library closures by Bush administration
EPA Library Closures Oregonian 12-06 with Update 9-08.doc
Editorial re EPA library closures by Bush administration
*GE – NY Presbyt Hosp Agreement – Synthesis Regeneration
Article discussing troubling arrangement between corporate polluter and human rights-abusing company and large hospital system
Global Warming & Health PSR Brochure.pdf
PSR brochure re global warming
Global Warming I Medscape.doc
Part I of two-part article on global warming
Global Warming II Medscape.doc
Part II of two-part article on global warming
*Global Warming – World Affairs Journal
Complete article on global warming from Medscape (updated)
*Health professionals, environmental degradation, and social injustice: education and activism – Monash Bioethics Review
Article on the roles and responsibilities of health professionals in confronting the health consequences of environmental degradation and social injustice: education and activism
*Indoor air pollution from biomass cooking stoves – Medscape.doc
Article on health effects of indoor air pollution from biomass cooking stoves
lead & intellectual impairment – NEJM lte.doc
Letter re lead and intellectual impairment
lead & renal dz – NEJM lte.doc
Letter re lead and renal disease in developing world
Mercury EPA – Oregonian lte.doc
Editorial re EPA position on mercury exposure
OR phthalates bill testimony fu ltr 4-07.doc
Follow-up letter re testimony before Oregon legislature on bills to eliminate phthalates in children’s toys
OR Phthalates bill testimony 4-07.doc
Letter re testimony before Oregon legislature on proposed bill to eliminate phthalates in children’s toys
OR phthalates cosmetics bill testimony 5-07.doc
Testimony re proposed Oregon state measure to outlaw phthalates in cosmetics
PDBEs-flame retardants fact sheet-psr.doc
PSR fact sheet re health risks of PDBEs (flame retardants)
*Precautionary Principle.doc
Brief description of the precautionary principle
Public Health Effects of Global Warming in Oregon – Thomasson
Handout on public health consequences of global warming for Oregon – by Catherine Thomasson
Review of Third Chimpanzee – Am J Med.doc
Review of Jared Diamond’s The Third Chimpanzee
*shark cartilage – Ann Int Med lte 4-07.doc
Letter re use of shark cartilage for arthritis and effects on shark species
shark cartilage – JAMA lte.doc
Letter re use of shark cartilage for arthritis and effects on shark species
sierra mag nader ltr.doc
Letter criticizing Sierra Club for failing to support presidential candidacy of Ralph Nader
External Links:
Allergykids.com: http://www.allergykids.com/
Beyond Pesticides: http://www.beyondpesticides.org/
Cancer Prevention Coalition: http://www.preventcancer.com/
Carbon counter – Fight Climate Change: http://www.carboncounter.org/
Catalog Choice – Eliminate Unwanted Catalogs: http://www.catalogchoice.org
CGH Environmental Strategies: http://www.cghenvironmental.com/
Convention on Biological Diversity: http://www.cbd.int/convention/default.shtml
Cell phone recycling: http://www.rbrc.org/call2recycle/
Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard Medical School: http://chge.med.harvard.edu/
Center for Health, Environment, and Justice: http://www.chej.org/about.htm
Collaborative on Health and the Environment: http://database.healthandenvironment.org/
Consortium for Conservation Medicine: http://www.conservationmedicine.org/
Container Recycling Institute: http://container-recycling.org/
Cornucopia Institute: http://cornucopia.org/pasture/index.php
Doctors for the Environment Australia: http://www.dea.org.au/node
E Magazine: http://www.emagazine.com/index.php
E Magazine Directory of Products and Services: http://www.emagazine.com/directory/viewlink.php
Earthjustice: http://www.earthjustice.org/
Earthworks: http://www.mineralpolicy.org/
Earth Institute Columbia University: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/sections/view/9
Earth Island Institute and Journal: http://www.earthisland.org/index.html
Earth Science Literary Initiative: http://www.earthscienceliteracy.org/index.html
Ecologist: http://www.theecologist.org/home.asp
EHP Environmental Health Perspectives: http://www.ehponline.org/
EHP (Environmental Health Perspectives) Science Education Program: http://www.ehponline.org/science-ed-new/
Environmental News Network: http://www.enn.com/
Environmental Working Group: http://www.ewg.org/
EPA Superfund Site: http://www.epa.gov/superfund/
Fair Trade Certified: http://www.transfairusa.org/content/WhereToBuy/
Focus the Nation (Global Warming Initiative): http://www.focusthenation.org/main.php
Food and Water Watch: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
Friends of the Earth: http://www.foe.org/
Global Exchange: http://www.globalexchange.org/
Global Footprint Network: http://www.footprintnetwork.org/gfn_sub.php?content=footprint_overview
Global Health, University of Arizona: http://www.globalhealth.arizona.edu
Global Health Education Consortium: http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/
Global Stewards: http://www.globalstewards.org/index.htm
Green Health Center, University of Nebraska: http://www.unmc.edu/green/index.htm
Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/
Green Charter Schools: http://www.greencharterschools.org
H2O Conserve: http://www.h2oconserve.org
Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health and the Environment: http://chge.med.harvard.edu/
Health Care Without Harm: http://www.noharm.org/
Hospitals for a Healthy Environment: http://www.h2e-online.org/
Humane Society of the US: http://www.hsus.org/index.html
Institute for Social Ecology: http://www.social-ecology.org/
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: http://www.ipcc.ch/
International Society of Doctors for the Environment: http://201.216.215.170/isde.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
Keep Antibiotics Working: http://www.keepantibioticsworking.com/new/index.cfm
Military Toxics Project: http://www.miltoxproj.org/
Natural Resources Defense Council: http://www.nrdc.org/
Nightingale Institute for Health and the Environment: http://www.nihe.org/
No Dirty Gold: http://www.nodirtygold.org/
Oregon Center for Environmental Health: http://www.oregon-health.org/
Oregon Environmental Council: http://www.oeconline.org/
Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility: http://www.oregonpsr.org
Oxfam America: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/
Pesticide Action Network of North America: http://www.panna.org/
Physicians for Social Responsibility: http://www.psr.org
Planet Ark: http://www.planetark.org/index.cfm
Rachel’s Democracy and Health News: http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=1
Rachel’s Precaution Reporter: http://precaution.org/
Riverkeeper: http://www.riverkeeper.org/
Science and Environmental Health Network: http://www.sehn.org/index.html
Sierra Club: http://www.sierraclub.org/
Sierra Club, Oregon Chapter: http://oregon.sierraclub.org/
Sierra Club, Oregon Chapter, Beyond Coal Campaign: http://www.sierraclub.org/coal/or/
Student Conservation Association: http://www.thesca.org/
Tackling malaria, by Claire Panosian, MD: http://www.science.org.au/nova/011/011print.htm
Union of Concerned Scientists: http://www.ucsusa.org/
United Nations Development Programme: http://www.undp.org/
United Nations Environment Program: http://www.unep.org/
United States Department of Agriculture: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html
Veriflora Cut Flower Certification System: http://veriflora.com/
Washington Toxics Coalition: http://www.watoxics.org/
Wiser Earth: http://www.wiserearth.org/
Worldwatch Institute: http://www.worldwatch.org/