The Future of Healing Resources
May/June 2001
By Karen Olson, Utne Reader
Institute for Children’s Environmental Health
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Box 757, Langley, WA 98260
Works to mitigate environmental exposures that can undermine the health of current and future generations.
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www.cehn.org, 202/543-4033
110 Maryland Ave. NE #511, Washington, DC 20002
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Canadian Medical Association Journal
www.cma.ca/cmaj/
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The Human Ecologist
http://members.aol.com/HEALNatnl/index.html, 404/248-1898
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BOOKS
Generations at Risk: Reproductive Health and the Environment by Ted Schettler (editor), Gina M. Solomon, Maria Valenti, and Annett Huddle (MIT, 2000)
Pandora’s Poison: Chlorine, Health, and a New Environmental Strategy by Joe Thornton (MIT, 2000)
Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Pre-cautionary Principle edited by Carolyn Raffensperger and Joel Tickner, introduction by Wes Jackson (Island Press, 1999)