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Uncategorized / 19 July 2023 by John

A Brief and Recent Environmental Health History – Explorations

Required

  • A Brief and Recent Environmental Health History – Podcast
  • A Brief and Recent Environmental Health History – Essay
  • Complexities Essay

Podcast

Rachel Carson, Theo Colborn, Pete Myers, Carol Kwiatkowski, Arlene Blum, and Lois Gibss are featured in this brief story of environmental health history.

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

Arlene Blum, Green Science Policy Institute

Lois Gibbs, Center for Health, Environment, and Justice

Carol Kwiatkowski, The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, Green Science Policy Institute

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

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The Ames Test
Test developed using bacteria to determine if a substance is mutagenic (disrupts DNA or genetic codes) and therefore carcinogenic (can trigger cancer).

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