101. ACS :: Green World The fifth rule is to use an ounce of prevention. People should avoid toxinsto protect themselves and society should protect the environment. http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_2_1x_Green_World.asp

Home Community Get Involved Donate ... Search GetRandomImage("headerImage", "jpg", 121, 77, 30); My Planner Register Sign In Our personal health correlates to the health of the environment around us, according to Howard Frumkin, MD, associate professor and chairman of environmental and occupational health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. During a recent lecture, Dr. Frumkin discuss... ACS News Today Medical Updates News You Can Use Stories of Hope ... I Want to Help Help in the fight against cancer. Donate and volunteer. It's easy and fun! Learn more Green World Work, Home and Play Can Affect Your Health Article date: Our personal health correlates to the health of the environment around us, according to Howard Frumkin, MD, associate professor and chairman of environmental and occupational health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in Atlanta. During a recent lecture, Dr. Frumkin discussed the links between health and the environment. He outlined "six golden rules" of toxicity, and discussed their impact on the relationship between humans and nature and how this affects health. "Environmental health might be about much more than cleaning up toxins," Dr. Frumkin said. "For the great majority, our human existence has been imbedded in nature."

102. Newsletter #29—Breast Cancer And The Environment: The Toxic Connection Breast Cancer and the environment The Toxic Connection. As breast cancer ratesreach epidemic proportions, the search for an explanation continues. http://www.bcaction.org/Pages/SearchablePages/1995Newsletters/Newsletter029O.htm

Home Get Informed! Return to Search Return to Chronological List Breast Cancer and the Environment: The Toxic Connection As breast cancer rates reach epidemic proportions, the search for an explanation continues. A recent issue of the Silicon Valley Toxics Action newsletter spotlights some environmental connections, as follows: The Chemical Connection Workers with unusually high exposure: A study among 24,000 blue collar workers in New Jersey found significant association between breast cancer among African-American women and employment in several chemical-intensive industries. Breast cancer mortality was 1.64 times higher among pharmaceutical workers and 1.51 times higher among electrical equipment manufacturing workers who, it was noted, are often exposed to high levels of solvents. (1991, American Journal of Industrial, Medicine) Similar results were found in New York state where high breast cancer rates were seen in women in the electrical and printing industry. (1986, New York Department of Health Monograph #21) Women chemical workers exposed to high levels of dioxin in a German pesticide plant had higher rates of breast cancer and twice the mortality rate of the German population as a whole.

103. MEGALOMEDIA: The Voice Of Globalization - NI 333 - ACTION: Rid Yourself Of Media Our cultural environment movement offers the liberating alternative an independentcitizen voice in cultural policymaking, working for the creation of a free http://www.newint.org/issue333/action.htm

New Internationalist April 2001 Global Media / ACTION DECLARE YOURSELF A DECOLONIZED ZONE The Viewers Declaration of Independence Cultural Environment Movement , P.O. Box 31847, PA 19104, US www.cemnet.org Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights www.mediachannel.org/manifesto JOIN THE MEDIA REBELLION Media Channel 1600 Broadway, Suite 700, New York, NY 10019, US www.mediachannel.org Media Foundation 1243 West 7th Avenue,Vancouver, BC,V6H 1B7, Canada Tel: +1 604 736 9401; Fax: +1 604 737 6021 adbusters@adbusters.org www.adbusters.org Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom 8 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF, Britain Tel: 020 7278 4430; Fax: 020 7837 8868 freepress@cpbf.org.uk www.cpbf.org.uk Bushfire Media Progressive media, investigative journalism, alternative news and media analysis. PO Box 9, Annandale, NSW 2038, Australia Tel: +61 2 9660 1804; Fax: +61 +2 9660 1804 bfmedia@peg.apc.org http://members.optusnet.com.au/~bfmedia/ Social Alternatives An independent, quarterly refereed journal. It is committed to the principles of social justice, commenting on important social issues of current concern or public debate. This has included articles on peace and conflict, racism, Indigenous rights, social justice, human rights, inequality and the environment. barbara@socialalternatives.com

104. Scorecard Home Scorecard Home Find environmental information about your community learn how bad the pollution is, where the toxic chemicals come from, what the health risks are, and what actions you can take. http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://www.scorecard.org/&y=02FDD7FAEC6789A

105. PRESS RELEASE All Of Us Smokers And Non-Smokers Alike Can See The Thousands of Cigarette Butts are littering our communities' parks and sidewalks. We need to take charge of this overlooked problem before it is too late. Is it possible to keep the cigarette http://rdre1.inktomi.com/click?u=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/5/inktomi127

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