Society Issues Environment Health
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» Burning Issues  
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.
http://Burningissues.org
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» Beyond Pesticides
National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides provides information on pesticides. Current actions and newsletters including pesticide safety and alternatives.
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/
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» CQS Health and Environment
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.
http://www.cqs.com/
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» Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR)
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.
http://www.igc.org/cpr/
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» Civitas - Citizens for Planetary Health
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.
http://www.linkny.com/~civitas/
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» Combination of Pesticides Linked to Parkinson's Disease
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.
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/pr/news/archive/park.html
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» Composted Kitchen Waste May Put Heavy Metals In The Soil
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
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19990109225423data_trunc_sys.shtml
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» Conspiracy of Silence
Documents a PCB spill and clean up, industries reaction and the eventual ban of the sale of PCB's.
http://www.planetwaves.net/silence2.html
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» Greenpeace Chemical Kitchen
Interactive guide of chemicals in kitchen products that cause harmful pollution in the environment and are toxic to humans. Names those cleaning products that do not contain these long-lasting, toxic chemicals.
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/Products/Toxics/
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» Infertility
"The global fertility rate has dropped by nearly half since 1955! The cumulative effects of radiation-caused infertility raise the possibility of gradual human extinction." Article from "The Golem" (no date given).
http://www.applicom.com/pnews/infert.htm
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» Insecticide Causes Mad Cow Disease
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
http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/17/bovine_spongiform_disease.htm
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» Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?
Computer models indicate that many diseases will surge as the earth's atmosphere heats up. Signs of the predicted troubles have begun to appear. Scientific American.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0008C7B2-E060-1C73-9B81809EC588EF21
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» Lindane Information
Offers scientific articles and reasons to ban the pesticide, Lindane.
http://www.pan-uk.org/banlindane/index.htm
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» Long Islanders Against Pesticides
LIAP is a non-profit community education organization providing information on the use of pesticides in the New York and Long Island communities.
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/liap
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» Parents Against Leukaemia
Action group highlighting the possible link between emf and leukaemia. Background information, personal stories, contact information and links.
http://www.pal-uk.org
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» Penn State Pesticide Use
Pennsylvania arborist obtained list of ten tons of herbicides used at Penn State to maintain lawn and other appearances. This documents his correspondence on subject.
http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/univer/pennstate.html
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» Pesticide Action Network International
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 auto
http://www.pan-international.org/
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» Pesticide Action Network UK
Provides information on health effects of pesticides, news, campaigns and projects.
http://www.pan-uk.org/
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» Pesticide Education Center
Provides information on health effects of pesticides. Promote safer alternative pest control methods to the public through videos, books and other materials.
http://www.pesticides.org/
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» Pesticide Policy Project
Promote development and testing methodologies for crop protection policy reform. Provide information on alternative crop protection methods like integrated pest management.
http://www.ifgb.uni-hannover.de/ppp/
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» Pesticide Watch
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.
http://www.pesticidewatch.org/
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» Pollution 'Damages Intelligence'
Environmental damage is sapping the intelligence of millions of people globally, says a British social scientist. BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/722907.stm
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» Radioactive Polonium
Article, references and background information on Polonium exposure and the attendant health risks.
http://www.webspawner.com/users/radioactivethreat/index.html
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» Safelawn Alliance
Dedicated to highlighting the inherent risk lawn chemicals pose to human and ecological well-being. Offers non-toxic alternatives and downloadable placards.
http://www.safelawn.org
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» The Ailing EnvironmentÂ
Perspective by Stephen J. Gislason on how the environment is getting sicker and making people sicker.
http://www.nutramed.com/environment/
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» The Healthy Community: One for All, All for One
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.
http://www.thebestmedicalcare.com/book/ch12_1.htm
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» The Purdey Environmental Home Page
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.
http://www.purdeyenvironment.com/
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» The Women's Environmental Network
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.
http://www.wen.org.uk/
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» WWF Toxics Programme
News, publications, factsheets, and other resources from an initiative to end threats to biodiversity from the use of toxic chemicals.
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/toxics/
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» Workplace Toxins Can Kill at Home
Investigation found that employees in more than 35 states have unwittingly transported toxins away from work sites exposing family members. USA Today.
http://usatoday.com/money/bighits/toxin1.htm
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Dieses Verzeichnis basiert auf dem Open Directory Project
ergänzt und modifiziert durch informa-24.de
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