Resources
Check out these resources for further education about household hazards.
Pesticides
Northwest Coalition for Alternative to Pesticides
www.pesticide.org
National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
www.beyondpesticides.org
Pesticide Action Network of North America
www.panna.org
Environmental Research Foundation
www.rachel.org
Books
Our Stolen Future, Theo Colburn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers. Plume/Penguin, 1997.
If you only read one book on this list - read this one. It explains how chlorine, dioxin and the whole class of hazardous and carcinogenic toxins cause reproductive, developmental, endocrine and immune system disorders.
Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment, Sandra Steingraber. Addison Wesley, 1997.
This book is both exhaustively researched and beautifully written. Sandra compellingly documents her case that 80% of all cancer is environmentally related and carefully looks at the chemicals that may be to blame. Highly recommended!
Toxic Deception: How the Chemical Industry Manipulates Science, Bends the Law and Endangers Your Health, Dan Fagin, Marianne Lavelle, and the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Birch Lane Press, 1996.
This is an exceptional book that explains in great detail why we can't depend on the EPA to protect us from dangerous chemicals.
Toxics A-Z: A Guide to Everyday Pollution Hazards, John Harte, Cheryl Holdren, Richard Schneider and Christine Shirley. University of California Press, 1991.
A Consumer's Dictionary of Household, Yard and Office Chemicals, Ruth Winter. Crown Publishing, 1992.
Other Resources to review in this section include:
Petroleum
Persistent Organic Pollutants
Organic Foods
Healthy Pets
 
|
