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Books
A Community Guide to Environmental Health
By Jeff Contant and Pam Fadem
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This book serves as an illustrated guide to help communities take charge and positively affect their environmental health. It contains activities and instructions for making tangible change as well as stories from communities in action.
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Date: 2008
Confronting Environmental Racism: Voices From the Grassroots
By Robert D. Bullard
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This book exposes the connection between systematic racism and environmental hazards. It is an anthology put together by leaders and activists of the movement.
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Date: 1999
Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality
By Robert D. Bullard
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This is a book that examines the relationship between minority communities and environmental hazards in the United States. Bullard describes how environmental racism in the US is one of the most pressing threats to issues of environmental and social justice today.
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Date: 2000
The Firecracker Boys: H-Bombs, Inupiat Eskimos, and the Roots of the Environmental Movement
By Dan O’Neill
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This is a story of how the Inupiat Eskimos fought against the detonation of nuclear bombs off the Alaskan coast, exposing the arrogance and deception of the US military and beginning the environmental justice movement in the America.
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Date: 2007
Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment
By Ted Schettler
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This book illuminates how exposure to toxins can have lifelong and intergenerational effects on human health. Schettler synthesizes information from specialists across the board to explain how society fails to protect us.
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Date: 2000
Having faith: an Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
By Sandra Steingraber
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This book relates the chronicle of Dr. Steingraber’s first pregnancy and an exploration of the threats of environmental chemicals to the intricate processes of reproduction.
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Date: 2001
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How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace
By Paul D. Blanc
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This book exposes how our everyday consumer products can be a danger to our health. It contains accounts of injuries and illness associated with toxins in products through time and space.
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Date: 2009
In Harm’s Way: Toxic Threats to Child Development
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The In Harm’s Way report investigates how toxic chemicals contribute to neurological, learning, and behavioral disabilities in children. Toxic exposures are a preventable cause of harm the work along with the complex interactions of genetic, environmental, and social factors that have an influence on child development.
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Author: Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility (GBPSR)
Date: April 2001
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Living Downstream: an Ecologist Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, 2nd Edition
By Sandra Steingraber
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In her early twenties, Steingraber was afflicted with cancer, a disease that has afflicted other members of her adoptive family. Writing from the twin perspectives of a survivor and a concerned scientist, she traces the high incidence of cancer and the terrifying concentrations of environmental toxins in her native rural Illinois. She goes on to show similar correlation in other communities, such as Boston and Long Island, and throughout the United States, where cancer rates have risen alarmingly since mid-century.
Living Downstream the movie (2010):
This poetic film follows Sandra during one pivotal year as she travels across North America, working to break the silence about cancer and its environmental links. After a routine cancer screening, Sandra receives some worrying results and is thrust into a period of medical uncertainty. Thus, we begin two journeys with Sandra: her private struggles with cancer and her public quest to bring attention to the urgent human rights issue of cancer prevention.
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Date: 2010
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New World of Indigenous Resistance
By Noam Chomsky
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This book examines how indigenous cultures balance maintaining identity while continuing to grow and develop alongside industrialism.
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Edited by: Lois Meyer and Benjamin Maldonado
Date: 2010
Nontoxic, Natural and Earthwise
By Debra Lynn Dadd
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This is a book written by an internationally recognized consumer advocate who identifies safe and environmentally responsible products.
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Date: 1990
Not Just a Pretty Face, The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry
By Stacy Malkan
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Stacy Malkan is a co-founder of the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and author of the award-winning book, “Not Just a Pretty Face: The Ugly Side of the Beauty Industry.” The book tells the inside story of the unprecedented research and advocacy efforts of the group of women who created the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and built a national movement to shift the $50 billion beauty industry away from harmful chemicals and toward safer products.
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Date: 2007
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Only One Chance: How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development -- and How to Protect the Brains of the Next Generation
By Philippe Grandjean
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This is a book that examines the relationship between toxic chemicals and how they affect brain development in children. Grandjean offers advice on how to tackle preventing neurodevelopmental abnormalities.
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Date: 2013
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?
By Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peter Meyers
Mission/Background: A groundbreaking book and now also a website, which report scientific discoveries about endocrine disruption, bringing awareness of how common contaminants may interfere with the natural signals controlling development of the fetus.
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Website tracks recent developments relevant to contaminants and their effects on the endocrine system.
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Date: March 1, 1997
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Pediatric Environmental Health
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This handbook is an invaluable tool to help health care providers identify, treat and prevent pediatric environmental health hazards.
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Editor: Ruth A. Etzel, MD and Associate Editor Sophie J. Balk, MD
Date: 2012
The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution
By Robert D. Bullard
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This book tells the tales of leaders of the environmental justice and human rights movements. It captures their voices as warriors against environmental discrimination and shows how they have become inspirations for the continuation of the movement.
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Date: 2005
The Right to Water: Politics, Governance and Social Struggles
By Farhana Sultana
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This book illuminates how communities around the world have struggled to claim safe drinking water as their basic human right.
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Date: 2012
Silent Snow: The Slow Poisoning of the Arctic
By Marla Cone
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This book exposes the misconceived notion of the Arctic as a pure environment. Cone explains how the Artic environment has been contaminated by toxins from far off nations and how the pollution is having detrimental effects on cultures and habitats.
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Date: 2005
Silent Spring
By Rachel L. Carson
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This book is a masterpiece in environmental science, grassroots movement and advocacy. The book started a national debate on the use of chemical pesticides, the responsibility of science and the limits of technological progress. Carson’s writing initiated a transformation in the relationship between humans and the natural world and stirred an awakening of public environmental consciousness.
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Date: 1962
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Textbook of Children's Environmental Health
Edited by Philip J. Landrigan and Ruth A. Etzel
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This textbook offers a complete, authoritative guide to how environmental hazards affect child developmental health, connecting increasing trends of defects with coinciding incidents of chemical releases.
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Date: 2013
Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law, and Endangers Your Health
By Dan Fagin and Marianne Lavelle
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This book investigates why and how corporations get away with using toxic chemicals in their products. The authors look into how companies cheat the system and how consumer lives have been detrimentally affected.
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Date: 2002
Toxics A to Z: A Guide to Everyday Pollution Hazards
By John Harte, Cheryl Hodren, Richard Schneider, and Christine Shirley
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A book written in two parts; part I has a vast amount of information on general issues concerning the hazards of toxics, and part II contains specific information about individual toxics.
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Date: 1991
Water, Culture, and Power: Local Struggles in a Global Context
Edited by John M. Donahue and Barbara Rose Johnston
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This is a volume composed of case studies from around the world on the culture and power dimensions of water management. It explores how changes in power dynamics result in changes of water policy and control.
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Date: 1997
Databases
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
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Toxic Release Inventory data to find out what chemicals are contaminating communities in many areas.
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Pubmed
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Pubmed is an online database of more than 24 million citations for biomedical resources and literature from various journals and books on the web.
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Skin Deep: Cosmetic Safety Database
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This database on cosmetic safety is provided by the Environmental Working Group. It matches ingredients in more than 25,000 commercially available cosmetic and personal care products with 50 toxicity and regulatory databases, since the FDA does not require companies to test these products for safety. The database is searchable by product, brand, or ingredient of concern, and lists information about toxicity and health effects.
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Journals
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH)
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The AJPH was founded in 1911 as a journal dedicated to publishing original work in the field of public health. They publish research, program evaluations, and editorials that are used as references to guide to advance public health policy.
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Environmental Health Journal
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Environmental Health is an open access, peer-reviewed, online journal. This EHjournal is aimed at scientists and practitioners in all areas of environmental science where human health and well-being are involved, either directly or indirectly. Environmental Health is a public health journal serving the public health community and scientists working on matters of public health interest and importance pertaining to the environment.
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Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP)
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Published by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), Environmental Health Perspectives is a monthly journal of peer-reviewed research and news on the impact of the environment on human health. Articles are available online free of charge.
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Environmental Health Perspectives
c/o Brogan & Partners
4011 Westchase Blvd, Suite 150
Raleigh, NC 27607
Phone: 866-541-3841
Fax: 919-828-5935
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601; CODEN: IJERGQ), an interdisciplinary Open Access journal, published by MDPI online monthly.
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Journal of Environmental Health Research
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The Journal of Environmental Health Research is a peer reviewed journal featuring original research papers, review articles, technical notes and professional evaluations covering the diverse range of topics which impinge on environmental health.
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Journal of Environmental and Public Health
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Journal of Environmental and Public Health is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, case reports, and clinical studies in all areas of environmental and public health.
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Websites
Advocates for Environmental Human Rights (AEHR)
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AEHR was founded by attorneys who are dedicated to tackling issues of environmental justice in the US. The organization works directly with communities to advocate for their human right to live in a toxic free environment and safe neighborhoods.
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Breast Cancer Action (BCAction)
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BCAction is working to overturn the commercialized pink ribbon movement associated with breast cancer, believing that a systemic attack on the actual causes of breast cancer is more powerful and pressing than individual efforts. Their goal is to achieve health justice for all women with potential risk or living with breast cancer.
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Breast Cancer Fund
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The Breast Cancer Fund seeks to prevent breast cancer by focusing on the cause: toxic chemical and radiation exposure. They work to illuminate the connection between breast cancer and toxins through public education and advocacy.
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Campaign for Safe Cosmetics
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The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a project under the Breast Cancer Fund (see above) that works to hold cosmetic companies accountable for the toxins in their products, putting pressure on them to remove chemicals that are known to be harmful to consumer health.
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Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN)
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CEHN is a national organization that aims to protect children from environmental health hazards while working to promote a healthier environment free of contaminants. They forward policy, research, and education on environmental health and how to improve health standards for our children.
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Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE)
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CHE is a collaborative of over 3000 partners, includinghealth professionals, scientists, academicians, and others
interested in the most robust science linking environmentalthreat with health outcomes. CHE maintains a comprehensivelisting of environmental health resources, searchableby health issue, environmental/toxic issue andtarget audience.
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Earthjustice
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Earthjustice is the nation’s largest non-profit environmental law organization, tackling issues of environmental and public health through legal action. They fight for the inherent rights of the earth and people while pushing for advancements in clean technologies.
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EcoWatch
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EcoWatch is an environmental news platform that publishes original content online.
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The Endocrine Disruption Exchange (TEDX)
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TEDX, founded by Dr. Theo Colborn, is a non-profit organization dedicated to compiling and disseminating the scientific evidence on the health and environmental problems caused by low-dose exposure to chemicals that
interfere with development and function, called endocrine disruptors.
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Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
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The EDF is an organization that operates nationally and internationally on a variety of environmental and public health issues through policy and advocacy work.
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Environmental Health News
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Daily links to top stories in the news about environmental health. This free news service can be subscribed to on the website.
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Environmental Justice for All
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A 2007 tour of chemically contaminated communities of color and the health effects found there.
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Environmental Working Group (EWG)
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The mission of the Environmental Working Group (EWG)is to use the power of public information to protect public
health and the environment. EWG specializes in providinguseful resources to consumers while simultaneously pushingfor national policy change.
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Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families
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Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families is a groundbreakingcoalition of diverse groups united by their common concern
about toxic chemicals in our homes, places of work,and products we use every day. SCHF is working to reform
the nation’s failed toxics chemical law to protect publichealth and the environment.
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Green Science Policy Institute
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The Green Science Policy Institute is a collaboration of mainly Ph.D. scientists whose mission is to provide unbiased scientific data to society. They hope to better inform policy makers, industry heads, and the general public to that they can make responsible choices to protect environmental and human health from toxic chemicals.
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Health Care Without Harm
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Health Care Without Harm is an international organization that unites medical professionals, health care systems, environmental organizations, and more to develop methods of medical care that promote the health of humans and the environment. They advocate for alternatives to health care practices that typically contaminate the earth.
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Healthy Child Healthy World
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Healthy Child works to empower parents to create healthier homes for their children though education and by promoting safer alternatives to toxic household products. The organization works to publicly showcase companies that produce safe products and lobbies to influence product policy in the US.
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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The IPCC was created under the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and is the leading international body on assessing and recommending plans of action for addressing climate change.
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IPEN
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IPEN is an organization that operates internationally to bring an end to the production and release of toxins into the environment.
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Is It In Us? Chemical Contamination in Our Bodies
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TheIs It In Us?Project conducted biomonitoring on 35 Americans across the nation, including Alaska, to investigate the levels of contamination in our bodies. This project investigated whether toxic pollution found in consumer products is also found in people.
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Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)
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The NRDC is a grassroots, activist organization that advocates for the protection and conservation of the earth’s natural resources. They are composed of lawyers, scientists, and other professionals that work together in promoting sustainable practices.