Health & Environment

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Special Project | Ecological Disasters: Week of May 26, 2013

Mon, 05/20/2013 - 11:57 — Dave Culver

Climate change is real and poses a threat to every living thing on the earth.
7 New Items including:
- Google Earth GIFs, 'Timelapse' Project, Show Startling Impact Of Humans On The Planet
- Fracking Debris Ten Times Too Radioactive for Hazardous Waste Landfill
- Frack You and the Sand You Rode In On
- Toxic and Tax Exempt, We Pay the Bill for Tar Sands Cleanup
- She Was Right
- Tell President Obama: We Can't Trust Shell in the Arctic
- Tell the Bureau of Land Management (BLM): Stop fueling global climate change

David Culver, Ed., Evergreene Digest

Bill Day

Google Earth GIFs, 'Timelapse' Project, Show Startling Impact Of Humans On The Planet, Huffington Post

The project features incredible environmental changes, including the retreat of the Columbia Glacier, deforestation in Brazil and coal mining in Wyoming.
Martin Luther King And The Call To Direct Action On Climate

Fracking Debris Ten Times Too Radioactive for Hazardous Waste Landfill, Abby Zimet, Common Dreams

The scariest thing here: Pennsylvania, which is currently studying radiation contamination associated with fracking wells, claims to be the only state that even requires landfills to monitor radiation levels.

Frack You and the Sand You Rode In On, Terry J. Allen, In These Times

Increasingly, vast, open-pit frac-sand mines blight the landscape like earth’s own acne.Fracking’s evil twin: the mining of prehistoric sand.
Monsanto Wrote Monsanto Protection Act

Toxic and Tax Exempt, We Pay the Bill for Tar Sands Cleanup, Erin O'Sullivan, EcoWatch

The experiences of people of Marshall, Michigan may shed light on what the citizens of Mayflower, Arkansas may now be in for.

She Was Right, Arrianna Huffington, Huffington Post <>

In 1962, Rachel Carson began sounding the alarm about the dangers of exposure to chemicals and the failure of the industry and regulators to protect people from those dangers.
Fifty years later, Lynne Peeples's anniversary feature in Huffington is a reminder that we have failed to heed many of Carson's warnings, especially when it comes to protecting our most precious resource, our children.
Chemistry Lessons: Living With Rachel Carson's Legacy

Tell President Obama: We Can't Trust Shell in the Arctic, Dan Ritzman, Sierra Club

Now, with just a few days left before they want to start drilling, they've admitted that their equipment isn't up to par – and they have no way to fix it before they start drilling.
Oil and gas marauders are destroying our land, water, and communities all over America
Tell the Bureau of Land Management (BLM): Stop fueling global climate change

Tell the Bureau of Land Management (BLM): Stop fueling global climate change, Credo Action

As climate change bears down on us, you'd expect our government to cut back on burning our dirtiest fuels, like coal. Instead, we're just giving it away to coal companies.

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Steve Greenberg | Earth alarm / media.cagle.com

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 12:04 — Dave Culver

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“Sniper” and the Elephant in the Room

Sat, 05/18/2013 - 09:51 — Dave Culver

Lessons From Harry Chapin’s Classic School Shooter Song
Brain-altering Psych Drugs as a Tipping Point to Overt Acts of Violence
De-mystifying the mass shootings seems to be a taboo subject

Gary G. Kohls, MD, Duty to Warn / Evergreene Digest

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May 17, 2013 | I have been involved in the mental ill health industry in various ways since the early 1990s. In the last decade of my medical career I was an independent holistic mental health care practitioner. I found myself frequently feeling obligated to function as a whistle-blower, exposing a psychopharmaceutical drug industry that had enormous numbers of serious, often unrecognized problems, many of them brain-disabling, addicting or even lethal.

Starting with the wake-up call of the Columbine school massacre in 1999, I became acutely aware of the close connections between the epidemic of mass shootings and the widespread use of prescription antidepressants for adolescents (which are illegal, for good reasons, to be prescribed in the under age 18 group in Great Britain). In my study of the problem, I discovered that mass shootings escalated dramatically after Prozac, Paxil and Zoloft hit the market in the decade prior to Eric Harris was started on Zoloft and then was switched to Luvox. (See www.ssristories.com for much more on the topic of drug-induced violence.).

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Peace & Nonviolence

Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD

Fri, 05/17/2013 - 17:27 — Dave Culver

The case against labeling and medicating children, and effective alternatives for treating them
Suffer the Children
How Schools Are Becoming Prisons

Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D., Psychology Today

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March 8, 2012 | French children don't need medications to control their behavior.

In the United States, at least 9% of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France, the percentage of kids diagnosed and medicated for ADHD is less than .5%. How come the epidemic of ADHD—which has become firmly established in the United States—has almost completely passed over children in France?

Is ADHD a biological-neurological disorder? Surprisingly, the answer to this question depends on whether you live in France or in the United States. In the United States, child psychiatrists consider ADHD to be a biological disorder with biological causes. The preferred treatment is also biological--psycho stimulant medications such as Ritalin and Adderall.

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How Schools Are Becoming Prisons, Chase Madar, Truthdig

The movement is under way to expel zero tolerance and dismantle the school-to-prison pipeline led by a coalition of legal, educational and youth groups.
The School Security America Doesn’t Need

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Transit for a Stronger Economy, Healthier Environment

Mon, 05/13/2013 - 19:47 — Dave Culver

Let's invest in a 21st-century transit system for Minnesota. Please pass a balanced, comprehensive transportation funding package.

Sierra Club, MN Northstar Chapter

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