Resources

ECO-Action has compiled a short list of great resources on issues related to our work with communities around toxic exposure and human health. We recommend the following:

The Precautionary Principle in the real World (a summary of the Precautionary Principle).

Rachel’s Precaution Health Reporter
Published between August 2005 and April 2008, Rachel’s Precaution Health Reporter was created to keep readers informed about the precautionary principle as it spread world-wide and throughout the U.S.

Precaution Health Reporter:
When Rachel’s Precaution Health Reporter ceased publication in 2008, its production was continued by the Science and Health Network and it was renamed the Precaution Health Reporter. Recent issues and links to back issues of the Precaution health Reporter can be found here.

The Networker
Also contains a number of resources on the Precautionary Principle and links to other websites.

Information (websites, newsletters)

The Environmental Justice Green Book

The Environmental Justice Green Book provides an introduction to laws regulating pollution in Georgia communities and the tools you can use to effect change.

Environmental Health – Healthy People 2030

Healthy People 2030 includes objectives focused on reducing people’s exposure to harmful pollutants in air, water, soil, food, and materials in homes and workplaces. Learn more about environmental health.

Georgia Science

Science for Georgia is a 501(c)(3). We work to build a bridge between scientists and the public and advocate for the responsible use of science in public policy.

Rachel’s Environment and Health News (can sign up for email newsletter) The best for learning!–published by Environmental Research Foundation.

Breast Cancer Action At Breast Cancer Action
We talk about breast cancer as the disease that it is – a disease that has environmental causes, a disease that kills more women of color than white women, and when it comes to device and drug approval at the FDA, a disease that is dominated by the pharmaceutical industry and not patients.

Beyond Pesticides
Alternatives, regulations, organizing information.

The Networker
Great resource group for precautionary principle, public trust doctrine and public interest research

The Mesothelioma Guide provides up-to-date information about living with asbestos-related cancer (mesothelioma), including top doctors, treatment options, and more.

Potential Sources of Funding

Southern Partners Fund (SPF)
is emerging as one of the most significant community-based, public foundations in the United States.

The A.J. Muste Memorial Institute
has a grantmaking program that supports pacifist and social justice causes. Check out their website for more information.

The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
helping to move people and places out of poverty.

The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation is to make the world a better place by empowering Ben & Jerry’s employees to use available resources to support and encourage organizations that are working towards eliminating the underlying causes of environmental and social problems.

The Public Welfare Foundation supports efforts to ensure fundamental rights and opportunities for people in need. We look for carefully defined points where our funds can make a difference in bringing about systemic changes that can improve the lives of countless people.

Physicians for Social Responsibility
doctors and supporters who work on toxics and nuclear issues.

Hospitals for a Healthy Environment
Is an initiative of the USEPA to help health care facilities enhance work place safety, reduce waste and waste disposal costs and become better environmental stewards and neighbors.

Health Care Without Harm
international coalition over 400 organizations in over 50 countries working to transform the health care industry so it is no longer a source of harm to people and the environment.

Current News

Environmental Health News
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Books

Trust Us We’re Experts by John Stauber & Sheldon Rampton — a book illustrating how science and your “news” are manipulated by spin and the Public Relations industry
Our Stolen Future – by Theo Colburn & others –on hormone mimicking chemicals
Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.- by Sandra Steingraber
Late Lessons From Early Warnings: The Precautionary Principle, European Environment Agency (2001)

Documentaries, You Tube Videos Short Videos and TED Talks

Now on PBS
(w/Bill Moyers special) This Emmy-winning PBS weekly newsmagazine engages viewers with documentary segments and insightful interviews that probe the most important issues facing democracy, including media policy, corporate accountability, civil liberties, the environment, politics, social responsibility, and foreign affairs. The website also provides special materials to allow teachers to use these films as lesson plan skill-building materials.

Trade Secrets
(Bill Moyers) is an investigation of the history of the chemical revolution and the companies that drove it – and how companies worked to withhold vital information about the risks from workers, the government, and the public. http://billmoyers.com/content/trade-secrets/ A number additional Bill Moyer videos can be accessed from the site Moyers and Company. Search for videos with the topic “environment”.

Fooling with Nature
(Frontline) Are manmade chemicals in the environmental hazardous to humans? What does science know? Links to other Frontline videos on Environmental topics can be found here.

audio programs: Download and listen to discussion about the Precautionary Principle

The Meatrix:
Flash movie about food and support of farmers.

Think before You Pink Flash movie about Breast Cancer Research. Also see here on the Breast Cancer Action site.

The Economic Injustice of Plastic, TED Talk by Van Jones a number of other interesting TED talks on the subjects of environmental health and environmental justice can be found at the www.ted.com website.

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