Health and the Environment Links

Wellesley's Water PowerPoint
Wellesley Water Presentation

Central San - Protecting Public Health and the Environment
http://www.centralsan.org/education/index.html

Children's Health Environmental Coalition
http://www.checnet.org

Environmental Working Group - Cutting Edge Research on Health and the Environment
www.ewg.org (Includes the link to the Safe Cosmetics interactive website, used in our Personal Care Products seminar.)

Environmental Health Information Services
http://ehis.niehs.nih.gov

Center for Disease Control
www.cdc.gov/nceh/dls/report

The Silent Spring Institute
http://www.silentspring.org/

Toxics Use Reduction Institute
www.turi.org

Toxics Action Center - Cleaning Up and Preventing Pollution
http://www.toxicsaction.org

Skin Deep: Cosmetics Safety Database produced by the Environmental Working Group
http://www.cosmeticdatabase.com

Cancer Links

American Cancer Society
http://cancer.org

American Institute for Cancer Research
www.aicr.org

Breast Cancer Fund
www.breastcancerfund.org

Multiple Myleoma Research Foundation
www.multiplemyeloma.org

Cancer Research Foundation of America
www.cancerprevention.org

Cornell University - Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York
http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/bcerf

Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation
http://komen.org

Pesticides Links

Basic Guide to Pesticides: Their Characteristics and Hazards
http://members.aol.com/rccouncil/ourpage/samples.htm#lawns

EPA - Office of Pesticide Programs
www.epa.gov/pesticides

Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
http://www.pesticide.org

Pesticide Action Network
http://www.panna.org/panna/

Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database
http://data.pesticideinfo.org

Pesticides Research Report: Do Pesticides Cause Lymphoma?
http://www.lymphomahelp.org/report.php

Sierra Club of Canada Pesticide Campaign:
http://www.sierraclub.ca/national/pest

Wellesley Pesticide Awareness Campaign
http:///home.comcast.net/~little.sarah/

The Environmental Working Group's website regarding Pesticides in Food, including a guide to Produce:
http://www.foodnews.org/

Directories of Chemicals and Other Toxins Links

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR)
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/

Lindane Education and Research Network
http://www.lindane.org

National Antimicrobial Information Network - Oregon State University and Environmental Protection Agency
http://npic.orst.edu.htm

Massachusetts Department of Agriculture - Pesticides
http://mass.gov/agr/pesticides/

Environment - Land and Water

Charles River Watershed Association - Protecting the Charles River
http://www.crwa.org

Greenpeace
http://www.greenpeace.org

Massachusetts Audubon Society - Protecting Massachusetts Nature
http://www.massaudubon.org

Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group
http://www.masspirg.org

The Nature Conservancy - Preserving the Earth's Last Great Places
http://nature.org

The Sierra Club - Protect the Planet
http://www.sierraclub.org

The Trustees of Reservations - Conserving and Protecting Land
http://www.thetrustees.org

Other Links

Art because - Funding Research into the Environmental Causes of Breast Cancer
www.artbecause.org

Co-op America - Using Consumer and Investor Power for Social Change
http://www.coopamerica.org

Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility
http://www.igc.org/psr

Pan Mass Challenge
http://pmc.org

Wellesley College Paint Shop Pond
http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/PSP

Books

Tiny Game Hunting: Environmentally Healthy Ways to Trap and Kill the Pests in Your House and Garden - Hilary Dole Klein and Adrian M. Wenner

Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment - Sandra Steingraber

Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story - Theo Colburn, Dianne Dumanoski, John Peterson Myers

Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (Global Century Series) - J.R. McNeil, John Robert McNeill, Paul Kennedy

Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe - Andrew Spielman Sc.D., Michael D'Antonio

Start With the Soil: The Organic Gardener's Guide to Improving Soil for Higher Yields, More Beautiful Flowers, and a Healthy, Easy-Care Garden - Grace Gershuny

Building a Healthy Lawn: A Safe and Natural Approach - Stuart Franklin

Gardening 101: Learn How To Plan, Plant and Maintain A Garden - Martha Stewart Living

Silent Spring - Rachel Carson

Dead Daisies Make Me Crazy: Garden Solutions Without Chemical Polution - Loren Nancarrow, Janet Hogan Taylor

Organic Pest Control for Home and Garden - Tom Roberts

From the WCPP Forum March, 2002: Your questions answered (click on the link of the speaker below)

Steve Johnson, Chief of Site Management for the Northeast Region Bureau of Waste Site Cleanup, Department of Environmental Protection.

Jill Stein, Co-chair Human Health and the Environment Project for Greater Boston Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Massachusetts Green Party candidate for Governor

Dr. Ken Geiser, Director, Toxic Use Reduction Institute , UMASS Lowell.