Iconocast Logo

Welcome To Iconocast

How to add a URL link from your web site to the Iconocast web sites

Virtual tour of Southern California

 

Recent News and Articles on the Keywords: pollution + everyday + protected  Related to the article below (Last Update: 8/5/2008)

Our Neighbors Probably Hate Us
New West, MT -
It can be difficult, but every day we are trying to keep our eyes toward the Big Picture. That picture is really quite simple; reduce expenses so that a ...
We smell the fuel every day
Coventry Telegraph, UK - Aug 1, 2008
Baginton and the other villages nearby and Willenhall, in Coventry, will bear the brunt of more noise, traffic and pollution. All airports are noisy. ...
Life takes a hellish turn on St Tropez
The Age, Australia - Jul 28, 2008
His wake-up call comes almost every day at about 7.30am, when, out of the hills, a helicopter thunders over his whitewashed villa. ...
This is Viewpoints for Sunday, 27 July 2008
Macon Telegraph, GA - Jul 27, 2008
I feel their pain every day I go home; these street people are trashing our areas and bringing down our neighborhoods. So I would ask Mayor Robert Reichert, ...
Cantley couple hopes to SLAPP back
Canada.com, Canada - Jul 25, 2008
"In principle, this law would apply to us," explains Mr. Galipeau, "because at any time during the judicial process a defendant can ask to be protected, ...

Environment News Service
America's Five Quietest and Five Noisiest National Parks
Environment News Service - Jul 14, 2008
Many also think of a place they can 'get away from it all' and that includes escaping ruckus of everyday life. Fortunately, National Park Service policies ...
Missouri Awards Nearly $46000 to Kansas City Regional Air Quality ...
Kansas City infoZine, MO - Jul 30, 2008
The plan promotes voluntary measures that citizens can take every day to reduce their impact on air quality. The Mid-America Regional Council also assists ...
1981: Oil Drilling Begins Off Cape Cod
Cape Cod Today, MA - Jul 27, 2008
The existing environmental safeguards, they said, were sufficient to protect the fish and their habitat from oil pollution. ...
Twin cities: Water-borne diseases on the rise!
The News - International, Pakistan - Jul 19, 2008
Water pollution has become a real threat to public health in Pakistan. The most common sources of water contamination are a result of human activity such as ...
Shopping the World
Sarasota, fl - Jul 31, 2008
? Bhutan ?s isolation was an absolute joy after leaving India ?s crowds, pollution and everything that goes with masses of humanity in confined spaces,? ...
Source: Google News

Everyday exposure to toxic pollutants -
WR Ott, JW Roberts - Scientific American, 1998 - sciamdigital.com
... the first serious efforts to assess every- day exposure of ... Everyday Exposure to Toxic
Pollutants ... Agency, managing research on air pollution, toxic substances ...

solution to arsenic pollution
B Clinton, IP Area, C Assessment, IE OIE - publish.csiro.au
... the 410 500- square-kilometre Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA ... people drink
arsenic-contaminated well water every day ? the microbe may ... arsenic pollution ...

… of human health: adverse environmental exposure and in-utero pollution?determinants of congenital … -
SJ Genuis - Journal of Perinatal Medicine, 2006 - Walter de Gruyter
... problems occurs infrequently in every- day clinical practice ... Alsen-Hinrichs:
Environmental pollution? assessment of ... Hormone deception: how everyday foods and ...

[PDF] Tannery pollution threatens health of half-million Bangladesh residents -
J Maurice - Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2001 - SciELO Public Health
... diseases that could be related to the pollution and that ... and 10 tons of solid waste
every day, according to ... a two-part vaccine that has protected monkeys from ...

Faecal pollution of freshwater environments in Bangladesh -
MS Islam, MJ Alam, SI Khan, A Huq - International Journal of Environmental Studies, 1994 - informaworld.com
... is situated inside the Botanical Garden of Dhaka and protected from human ... Every day
hundreds of people use this pond for washing, bathing and ... FAECAL POLLUTION ...

[BOOK] Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil -
N Scheper-Hughes - 1992 - books.google.com
Page 1. Wit/tout THE VIOLENCE OF EVERYDAY LIFE IN BRAZIL NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES Page
2. Death ... Weeping The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES ...

PROTECTED-AREA MANAGEMENT -
MP Pimbert, JN Pretty - … Politics and Impacts of National Parks and Protected Areas, 1997 - books.google.com
XI PARKS, PEOPLE AND PROFESSIONALS: PUTTING'PARTICIPATION'INTO PROTECTED-AREA
MANAGEMENT Michel P. Pimbert and Jules N. Pretty Coercion and Control in Nature ...

Effect of Air Pollution on Olfactory Function in Residents of Mexico City -
R Hudson, A Arriola, M Martinez-Gomez, H Distel - Chemical Senses, 2006 - Oxford Univ Press
... on olfactory function of the everyday air pollution ... were engaged in relatively
pollution-free indoor ... Fisher protected least significant difference (PLSD) post ...

[BOOK] Miasma: Pollution and Purification in Early Greek Religion
R Parker - 1990 - books.google.com
... learn from him, might attribute a natural disaster to a pollution it had ... how the
concern for purity affected the individual in his everyday religious practice. ...

[BOOK] Marine and Coastal Protected Areas: A Guide for Planners and Managers -
RV Salm, JR Clark, E Siirila - 2000 - books.google.com
... relevant publications on planning and managing marine and coastal protected areas
were ... and design by providing approaches and tools for everyday application at ...

Source: Google Scholar

Why Are We Not Protected From The Pollution From Everyday Consumer Products?
Cosmetics, tile cleaners, insect repellants, shampoos, laundry detergents and prescription drugs are just some of the everyday products containing harmful endocrine-disrupting substances (EDS) that can seriously damage our health. The red flags currently being raised about these EDSs ending up in our water couldn't have come sooner.

We have learned from harrowing stories in the past that exposure to incredibly small amounts of EDSs, such as Thalidomide and the synthetic estrogen diethylstilbestrol, and the timing of the exposure, can cause dramatic birth defects. Developing fetuses are a vulnerable population needing our protection.
It's clear that governments and academia need to set clear priorities for research and put more resources into examining and understanding this issue. Unfortunately, the Harper Government's new Science and Technology Strategy is going in the opposite direction as it hints at privatizing its government research labs.

And in Ontario, the government needs to listen to the Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller's advice and support research into water treatment technologies to remove these substances from our water.

Last year, the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP) published "There is No AWAY," a major report on EDSs in our water (available at www.cielap.org) that includes recommendations to governments for handling this problem, specifically, creating policy that would prevent these pollutants from getting into our water in the first place. And when we don't have enough hard proof, precaution and prevention ought to be the course of action.

We highlight a number of actions governments can take to curb EDS pollution. They can initiate public and consumer education programs; establish municipal by-laws about avoiding home pesticide use and not discarding drugs down toilets and sewers; develop product standards; and restrict manufacturers from using some substances, or at least limiting the amounts they use.

Consumers also need a better system to be able to identify safer personal care and cleaning products. We need our government to initiate a system for mandatory labeling that allows and promotes consumer choice. It's absurd that consumers have no reliable way to tell whether the soaps, deodorants, and cleaners they buy - to put on their skin and use in their homes - contain potentially harmful substances.

In the long-term, however, people's safety shouldn't be left to consumer choice. As we learn more about EDSs and the risks they present to human health, problem ingredients should be banned.
We must act now to educate citizens and provide them with the tools they need to make informed decisions for their health and the health of their environments. A labeling program, which would let consumers better understand and choose the chemicals they consume, would be a good start.

Founded in 1970, the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP) is an independent environmental law and policy research and education organization.

http://www.cielap.org
 
 
Google
Web www.iconocast.com

Search inside Iconocast for the keyword you have in mind.

Iconocast has collected more than 50,000 articles and press releases on health and science.

These are current and most up to date press releases on the subject you are searching.

We collect current health and science press releases daily from more than 5000 research and health institutes. Here is an example : The elderberry way to perfect skin

We believe if you do search inside Iconocast, you will get better results than searching the web alone.

 
 
Continue News With: News9 ; News9A


ADVERTISEMENT

Iconocast is about learning and teaching without borders; we offer eMarketing, Internet Advertising, Internet Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Online Branding, and eMarketing News Services.

 

Iconocast Home Page

Contact Iconocast

© 2003-07. ICONOCAST is a trademark of iconocast.com.