Required
- A Brief and Recent Environmental Health History – Podcast
- A Brief and Recent Environmental Health History – Essay
- Complexities Essay
Podcast
Self-select one chapter of choice each from:
Books
- Carson, Rachel L. Silent Spring. Mifflin, 1962.
- Colborn, Theo, et al. Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?: A Scientific Detective Story. Dutton, 1999.
- Gibbs, Lois, and Murray Levine. Love Canal: My Story. State University of New York Press, 1982.
Self-select two of the various elements listed below:
Long Version Interviews
Articles
- “Playing with Fire,” Chicago Tribune series on toxic flame retardants
Videos
- Arlene Blum, Purpose Prize Winner
- Dark Waters (rent or buy) film about Dupont polluting farms.
- Erin Brockovbich (rent or buy) film about a woman who defended a polluted community.
- The Goldman Prize video “Lois Gibbs”
- “The Love Canal Disaster: Toxic Waste in the Neighborhood” | Retro Report | The New York Times
- The Male Predicament – Theo Colborn
- Silkwood film about Karen Silkwood, whistleblower a a nuclear plant that leaked radiation.
- Toxic Hot Seat – About the Chicago Tribune series on toxic flame retardants. ROCO Films charges $50 for a one time screening.
Other Podcasts
- Toxic Avengers with Daniel Rosenberg – Long time environmental health stalwart Daniel Rosenberg interviews environmental health and environmental justice advocates.
Websites
- Center for Health, Environment and Justice (Lois Gibbs)
- Coming Clean
- Critical Windows of Development (Theo Colborn, Carol Kwiatkowski)
- Environmental Health News (Pete Myers)
- Green Science Policy Institute (Arlene Blum, Carol Kwiatkowski)
- Planetary Health Alliance Education Materials
- Science Communication Network (Pete Myers)
- SUDOC (Pete Myers)
- The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (Theo Colborn, Carol Kwiatkowski)
- Wingspread Conference on the Precautionary Principle