The Future of Healing Resources

By Karen Olson and Utne Reader
Published on October 30, 2007

Institute for Children’s Environmental Health
www.iceh.org, 360/221-7995
Box 757, Langley, WA 98260
Works to mitigate environmental exposures that can undermine the health of current and future generations.

Children’s Environmental Health Network
www.cehn.org, 202/543-4033
110 Maryland Ave. NE #511, Washington, DC 20002
Promotes protecting the fetus and child from environmental health hazards.

Physicians for Social Responsibility
www.psr.org, 202/898-0150
1101 14th St. NE #700, Washington, DC 20005
Aims to create a world free of nuclear weapons, global environmental pollution, and gun violence.

Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
www.igc.org/psr/
Published a report called “In Harm’s Way” that documents the many toxic threats to child development.

Canadian Medical Association Journal
www.cma.ca/cmaj/
A recent series surveys the environmental issues that now affect human health, from war and population growth to ozone depletion and global warming.

The Human Ecologist
http://members.aol.com/HEALNatnl/index.html, 404/248-1898
Serving people whose health has been adversely affected by chemical exposure.

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)

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