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The Collaborative on Health and the Environment (CHE) is a diverse network of more than 3000 individual and organizational Partners in 45 countries and 48 states, working collectively to advance knowledge and effective action to address growing concerns about the links between human health and environmental factors.
WHAT'S NEW
Endocrine Society Calls for Precautionary Action
June 24, 2009: The Endocrine Society, a highly respected international medical society of over 14,000 members in 100 countries, issued a seminal new report stating that exposures to endocrine disrupting chemicals are a growing threat to human health and well-being. This report sends a clear signal to other health-related professional societies as well as policymakers that we can no longer ignore environmental contributors to a wide range of diseases and disabilities.
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A Common Agenda for Health and Environment
May 14, 2009: The Lowell Center for Sustainable Production's Toward Tomorrow team recently released a new report, A Common Agenda for Health and Environment. Central to the Common Agenda are Generational Goals: stakes in the ground about where we want to be one generation from now that serve as beacons for national policy, for local programs, or for individual action.
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PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
A Small Dose of Empowerment Steve Gilbert, PhD, DABT, Director and Founder of the Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders and Managing Editor of Toxipedia.org The hardest part of being a neurotoxicologist – someone who studies the effects of toxins on the brain – is not the studying-the-brain part.
At least, not for longtime CHE Partner Steven G. Gilbert, PhD, DABT, Director and Founder of the Seattle, WA-based Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders (INND) and Managing Editor of Toxipedia.org. For Dr. Gilbert, the hard part is figuring out how to manage his time.
No longer active in research, he works on different ways to explain to the public what is already known about how environmental toxins affect our health.
For example, in 2006, he created Toxipedia, a Web-based encyclopedia of toxicology that uses modified open-source wiki technology to make information more freely available. He writes and publishes papers (most recently, a book review in Environmental Health Perspectives). He is working on the second edition of his book, A Small Dose of Toxicology: The Health Effects of Common Chemicals (Informa HealthCare, 2004).
“There are a million things to do,” he said in a telephone interview, explaining his ongoing struggle with time management. “What’s the most effective way to use your time? If you really want to change what’s going on, what’s the best way to do that?”
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 | | Beatrice Zeigler | | Photo: Steve Lerner | © Steve Lerner 2008It all started on a September morning in 2003 when a drilling crew pulled up onto Laura Ward’s lawn in the tiny town of Tallevast, Florida, 38 miles south of Tampa, and started boring a hole. Continue reading...
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