Knowledge: health
See Also:
- health → alternative → non-toxic living
- science → environment → environmental health
- society → issues → animal welfare
- society → issues → environment → food and drink
- society → issues → health
- society → issues → health → conditions and diseases → cancer
- society → issues → health → food, drink and nutrition
Links
- Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
http://www.panna.org/ - Organization working to reduce the use of hazardous pesticides world wide.
- CQS Health and Environment
http://www.cqs.com/ - Health alert and toxic alert information about health, fitness, and the environment and their intimate connection. Activist group's site. Some alternative views on HIV and AIDS.
- Composted Kitchen Waste May Put Heavy Metals In The Soil
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19990109225423data_trunc_sys.shtml - Some systems of ecological arable farming in developed countries, which use only organic fertilisers contaminate the soil with levels of cadmium, copper and lead which are twice as high as when a combination of both animal manure and artificial fertiliser is used. (Studied samples using kitchen waste)
- Burning Issues
http://burningissues.org/ - Research and data on wood smoke pollution and combustion particulates. Research shows that 60,000 people in the US die each year from smoke pollution. Site chosen by the BBC Education Directory for excellence in the information presented.
- Long Islanders Against Pesticides
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/liap/ - LIAP is a non-profit community education organization providing information on the use of pesticides in the New York and Long Island communities.
- Canadians Against Pesticides
http://www.caps.20m.com/ - Informing Canadians of pesticide risks. Actions against pesticides and toxins.
- The Ailing EnvironmentÂ
http://www.nutramed.com/environment/ - Perspective by Stephen J. Gislason on how the environment is getting sicker and making people sicker.
- Produce Items May Exceed EPA Standards
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/pesticides.htm - Pesticide residue levels on produces exceed EPA standards. Washingtonpost.
- Pesticide Action Network International
http://www.pan-international.org/ - Network of over 600 participating nongovernmental organizations, institutions and individuals in over 60 countries working to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives. Projects and campaigns are coordinated by five autonomous Regional Centers.
- Conspiracy of Silence
http://www.planetwaves.net/silence2.html - Documents a PCB spill and clean up, industries reaction and the eventual ban of the sale of PCB's.
- Workplace Toxins Can Kill at Home
http://usatoday.com/money/bighits/toxin1.htm - Investigation found that employees in more than 35 states have unwittingly transported toxins away from work sites exposing family members. USA Today.
- The Healthy Community: One for All, All for One
http://www.thebestmedicalcare.com/book/ch12_1.htm - Chapter from the free online book, How to Get the Best Medical Care - A Guide for the Intelligent Patient. Discusses the environments effect on human health.
- Beyond Pesticides
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/ - National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides provides information on pesticides. Current actions and newsletters including pesticide safety and alternatives.
- Insecticide Causes Mad Cow Disease
http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/17/bovine_spongiform_disease.htm - Research that shows insecticide used in the UK government warble-fly campaigns triggered the UK surge of 'Mad Cow' disease. Latest experiments by Cambridge University prion specialist David R. Brown shows that prions in the bovine spine can be damaged by organophosphate insecticides causing the disease. Optimal Wellness Center News.
- The Purdey Environmental Home Page
http://www.purdeyenvironment.com/ - Mark Purdey's research into how organophosphate pesticides and other pollutants may be causing diseases such as BSE, CJD, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Alzheimer's.
- Pesticide Watch
http://www.pesticidewatch.org/ - Information about pesticides and the problems associated with pesticide use. Provide California communities with the tools they need to protect themselves and the environment from the hazards of pesticides.
- Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/ - Provides pesticide information from many different sources. Includes definitions, references and user manual.
- Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
http://www.pesticide.org/ - NCAP works to protect people and the environment by advancing healthy solutions to pest problems. Provide news and information on pesticide issues.
- Toxic Substances and Kids Developmental Effects
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/ - Information about the effects of mercury, toxic metals, endocrine disrupting chemicals, air pollution on kids health.
- Pesticide Policy Project
http://www.ifgb.uni-hannover.de/ppp/ - Promote development and testing methodologies for crop protection policy reform. Provide information on alternative crop protection methods like integrated pest management.
- Parents Against Leukaemia
http://www.pal-uk.org - Action group highlighting the possible link between emf and leukaemia. Background information, personal stories, contact information and links.
- Radioactive Polonium
http://www.webspawner.com/users/radioactivethreat/index.html - Article, references and background information on Polonium exposure and the attendant health risks.
- The Women's Environmental Network
http://www.wen.org.uk/ - WEN campaigns on issues that link women, health and the environment. Campaigns promote positive alternatives to polluting practices and consumer items. Provides information on environmental health, food and genetic engineering.
- Pesticide Education Center
http://www.pesticides.org/ - Provides information on health effects of pesticides. Promote safer alternative pest control methods to the public through videos, books and other materials.
- Natural Resources Defense Council - Toxic Chemicals and Health
http://www.nrdc.org/health/ - NRDC provides information, reports, fact sheets and studies on everyday health threats posed by toxic chemicals and pesticides.
- Pesticide Action Network UK
http://www.pan-uk.org/ - Provides information on health effects of pesticides, news, campaigns and projects.
- Pollution 'Damages Intelligence'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/722907.stm - Environmental damage is sapping the intelligence of millions of people globally, says a British social scientist. BBC News.
- WWF Toxics Programme
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/toxics/ - News, publications, factsheets, and other resources from an initiative to end threats to biodiversity from the use of toxic chemicals.
- Combination of Pesticides Linked to Parkinson's Disease
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/pr/news/archive/park.html - A combination of two widely used agricultural pesticides - but neither one alone - creates in mice the exact pattern of brain damage that doctors see in patients with Parkinson's disease.
- Mainlining Danger: Hospital Patients Exposed to High Levels of Toxic Chemicals in Vinyl I.V. Bags
http://www.commondreams.org/pressreleases/feb99/022299a.htm - Greenpeace data shows that vinyl (PVC) medical devices contain high levels of toxic additives which can leach out through surrounding fluids, exposing hospital patients to a probable human carcinogen.
- Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR)
http://www.pesticidereform.org/ - Resource designed to aid in understanding the chronic and acute health impacts of pesticides. Provide review of studies linking pesticides with chronic and acute diseases.
- Civitas - Citizens for Planetary Health
http://web.linkny.com/~civitas/ - Promotes environmental and human health by exposing harmful practices and policies such as relying upon unscientific animal experiments to justify poisoning the environment and to predict the effects of toxins and medicines on humans.
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