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Rachel's Democracy & Health News #844 -- Collapse
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March 2, 2006Abstract:
Why Civilizations Decline Some civilizations reach their peak of power and then suddenly collapse and remain in decline or even disappear. Others thrive for thousands of years. What accounts for the difference, and what does it matter to the U.S.? Money and Medicine: Richer or Poorer, Health...Read/download:
Rachel's Democracy & Health News #844 -- Collapse, (HTM, 39 KB)Rachel's Democracy & Health News #842 -- Can Regulation Succeed?
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February 16, 2006Abstract:
The story of Erin Brockovich centered around chromium pollution, and it seemed to tell of a great victory for people who had been harmed. But underneath that story lies a deeper tale of the systematic corruption of science for the purpose of undermining the U.S. system of chemical regulation...Read/download:
Rachel's Democracy & Health News #842 -- Can Regulation Succeed?, (HTM, 64 KB)OECD Environmental Outlook
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June 15, 2001Abstract:
A survey or environmental problems, and projections for the next 20 years, by the Organization for Cooperation and Development (OECD)....Read/download:
OECD Environmental Outlook, (PDF, 3445 KB)Cleaning Up the Nation's Waste Sites: Markets and Technology Trends
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September 15, 2004Abstract:
This 2004 EPA report (EPA 542-R-04-015) estimates that the U.S has up to 350,000 contaminated sites needing cleanup (only 77,000 of which have yet been identified)....Read/download:
Cleaning Up the Nation's Waste Sites: Markets and Technology Trends, (PDF, 4323 KB)Neighborhood Knowledge
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January 15, 2002Abstract:
Describes the development and use of "environmental indicators" as a way for residents of Oakland to measure how their community is doing, year by year....Read/download:
Neighborhood Knowledge, (PDF, 1476 KB)Integrating Public Health into Land Use Decision-Making
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October 9, 2003Abstract:
Describes a project of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) to integrate public health principles into land use planning....Read/download:
Integrating Public Health into Land Use Decision-Making, (PDF, 50 KB)DRAFT Brochure: Planting the Precautionary Principle in the Garden State
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August 15, 2003Abstract:
DRAFT brochure for a workshop to be held 9:30 to 4:30 Nov. 22, 2003 at the Labor Education Center, 50 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick 08901. The workshop will focus on the precautionary principle and how it might advance environmental protection and justice in New Jersey....Read/download:
DRAFT Brochure: Planting the Precautionary Principle in the Garden State, (DOC, 33 KB)Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology
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July 14, 2003Abstract:
This report explains why incinerators are an unsustainable and obsolete method for dealing with waste. The GAIA report concludes that incineration is a dying technology. As a waste treatment technology, it is unreliable and produces a secondary waste stream more dangerous than the original. As an en...Read/download:
Waste Incineration: A Dying Technology, (PDF, 2421 KB)To a Candidate in Search of an Environmental Theme: Promote the Public Trust
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May 1, 2000Abstract:
Advocates modern use of the public trust doctrine as a unifying concept for environmental protection....Read/download:
To a Candidate in Search of an Environmental Theme: Promote the Public Trust, (TXT, 154 KB)Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Social Contract for Science
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January 23, 1998Abstract:
Then-president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Jane Lubchenco, calls upon scientists to devote their energies and talents to the most pressing problems of the day because the environment is in trouble. Jane Lubchenco, "Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Socia...Read/download:
Entering the Century of the Environment: A New Social Contract for Science, (PDF, 307 KB)