Silent Spring

This Mother's Day, Mother Earth Wants You

Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Pesticides, Organic Gardening, League of Women Voters, Green News, Rachel Carson, Environmentalism, Silent Spring, The 2012 Project, Rachel's Network, Pesticide Action Network, Green News

What a new report found is that women tend to support clean air, clean water, and overall environmental protections within the aim of promoting public health and resource conservation for future generations.

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We Are Houseguests on This Earth and We've Been Very Messy

Olivia Bouler | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: Earth Day 2012, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill, Earth Day, Silent Spring, Teen News

By investing in alternative energy, we are investing in our economy and our habitat. I may only be 12, but it sounds good to me. Every one of us has a great gift we can use to help the earth. Everyone, at any age, can do something.

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Reflections on Earth Day

Al Gore | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Earth Day 2012, Silent Spring, Climate Change, Al Gore, Climate Crisis, Earth Day, Global Warming, Green News

On this Earth Day, which comes nearly fifty years since the first printing of Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's work continues to stand as a testament to the power of conscience, insight and our collective ability to make the world a better place.

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Silent Spring, BPA and Toxic Health Scares: Let Science Drive Regulation, Not Fear

Jon Entine | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Nrdc, Bpa, Natural Resources Defense Council, Jon Entine, Silent Spring, Politics News

The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues.

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Rachel's Kids

Michael Brune | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Ddt, Silent Spring, Methyl Iodide California, Methyl Iodide, Rachel Carson, Green News

Rachel Carson would be proud of the kids at Renaissance High School in Watsonville, California.

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Don't Allow This to Be Another Silent Spring: Tell Lawmakers to Take Climate Action

Sigourney Weaver | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Clean Water, Department of Agriculture, Ddt, Silent Spring, Climate Change, Cancer, Chemicals, Rachel Carson, Green News

I keep thinking about Rachel Carson these days, because the current efforts to discredit climate scientists look a lot like the powerful resistance that met Carson's warnings about DDT.

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Environmental Toxins: What Your Doctor's Not Telling You

Sarah Lovinger | Posted 07.07.2011

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Chernobyl, Fukushima, Personal Health, Health, Coal-Fired Power Plants, Public Health, Environment, Silent Spring, Cancer, Nuclear Accidents, Home News

The link between a bad habit like smoking and health is linear, and a very easy one for doctors and other medical professionals to discuss with their patients who smoke. The individual risk of exposure to environmental toxins is much harder to pinpoint.

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Neonictinoids -- Destroying the Web of Life

Dr. Reese Halter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Bees, Insecticides, Dr. Reese Halter, Neem, Mad Bee Disease, Bumblebees, Drought, Dr Rachel Carson, Colony Collapse Disorder, Neonictinoids, Silent Spring, Honeybees, Global Warming, Insecticides Bees, Green News

Each year, our global biosphere endures an onslaught of 5 billion pounds of insecticides. These insecticides have caused a dramatic decline for many common grassland bird species.

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Are Psychiatric Drugs Contributing to Mental Illness Disability?

Bruce E. Levine | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Mental Illness, Psychiatric Drugs, Psychiatry, Anatomy of an Epidemic, Silent Spring, Robert-Whitaker, Bruce E. Levine, Antidepressants, Health, Prozac, Healthy Living News

Since 1955, mental illness disability rates in the U.S. have increased six-fold. At the same time, psychiatric drug use greatly increased in the 1950s and 1960s, then skyrocketed after 1988.

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Silent Spring Has Sprung

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tyrone Hayes, Atrazine, Water, Nrdc, Rachel Carson, Environment, Green News, Silent Spring, Syngenta, Toxic Chemicals, Endocrine Disruptors, Epa, Ddt, Drinking Water, Green News

the pervasive use of the herbicide atrazine raises a host of ecological and political questions that are strikingly reminiscent of those confronted by Rachel Carson.

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Mothers and Soldiers: Healing the Bonds Destroyed by War

Christian Avard | Posted 05.25.2011

Susan Galleymore is the author of Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak About War & Terror. She made international headlines as she traveled to Iraq to visit her son stationed in the Sunni Triangle.

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The Most Important Book Every Man Should Read

Steve Leveen | Posted 09.27.2011

Read More: Microloans, Toxic Chemicals, Important Book, Bestsellers, Women's Rights, Human Rights, Kristoff, New York Times, Silent Spring, Gender Violence, Half the Sky, Wudunn, Best Book, Books We Love, Books News

The authors argue successfully that women's oppression is the human rights issue of our century -- as totalitarianism was of the twentieth century, and slavery was of the nineteenth.

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Glenn Beck Praises DDT, Bashes Van Jones, Joni Mitchell And Environmentalists (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ddt, Silent Spring, Glenn Beck, Video, Glenn Beck Video, Glenn Beck Van Jones, Glenn Beck DDT, Green News

Somehow Glenn Beck's wacky proclamations never cease to amaze both in their inaccuracy and outrageousness. In case you missed this, here's a video of ...

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Risky Runoff: From Fish-Roe to Ritalin (My Reaction to "Poisoned Waters," a Recent PBS Frontline Story)

Michael DeJong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Margaret Meade, Thinking Mindfully, Cleaning Supplies, Rachel Carson, We?Re All Polluters, Industrial Waste, Acting Safely, Baking Soda, Flora and Fauna, Run-Off, Respecting All Manner of Life, Fresh Lemon, Chlorine Bleach, PBS Frontline, Ground Water, Lawn Care Products, Cosmetics-Industry, Agricultural Pollution, Health, Home Waste Treatment Systems, Micro-Particulates, Silent Spring, Poisoned Waters, Rivers, Water, Green News

The particulates from our own medicated bodily fluids are so fine that there are no water processing plants in the world that can trap them.

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Earth Day Film Review: A Sense of Wonder

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Breast Cancer, Writing, Books, Rachel Carson, Nature, Environment, Silent Spring, Movie, Cancer, Earth Day, Film, Dvd, A Sense of Wonder, Green Living, Green News

It's a quiet film, one that asks us to set aside our hunger for over-dramatic portrayals of human conflict; watching it feels like a meditation of sorts.

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