Category Archives: environmental health
Bankers, Trees and our Lungs: how they all connect
Could banks now be leading us all into a state of …(cough)… asphyxiation? Could they be pilfering not just our savings but our very oxygen supply? Well, we all know that banks have been behaving rather self-destructively of late. However, … Continue reading
Mold, Mutation and Radiation: in the Mix
Earlier this year, a strange, “spider web like substance” was detected in the cooling pools at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River site, in South Carolina. After receiving a report filed by the SRS officials, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety … Continue reading
Radiation Red Alert
More on those Mosquito Swarms in Belarus I recently posted an entry about the puzzling spider attack on a community in northern India. In that blog, I show a photograph taken in Belarus of frighteningly dense swarms of mosquitos. If … Continue reading
Spider Attacks: What is Going On?
An article originally posted in the Times of India has spawned global fascination with a strange spider attack in the town of Sadiya in Assam. One would expect a good measure of rumor to get mixed up with the facts. … Continue reading
Even the Fire is Sick
“I think we need to start over. I don’t know how we do it, but we need to start over.” These are the words, not of some armchair philosopher, but of Wendy Peralta, who runs a small store and … Continue reading
Our Ecological Health
Planetary Health The failure of our current medical system is simply one glaring aspect of our failure to live in harmony with the Earth and its myriad eco-systems. This health system has now brought the US economy to its knees, … Continue reading
Surviving Radiation
Yesterday, on Democracy Now, I watched a dialogue between a left-wing British journalist, Goerge Monbiot and renowned anti-nuclear campaigner, Dr. Helen Caldicott. Monbiot stated that the scientific consensus was as follows: exactly 43 people had died so far as a … Continue reading
Fukushima, Radiation, and the Message from Water
Today at noon, thousands, more likely millions of people around the globe will be sending prayers of love and gratitude to the waters around Fukushima Dai-ichi. This co-ordinated action has been proposed by Dr. Masuru Emoto, author of The Hidden … Continue reading
Can increased iron intake protect against radioactive plutonium?
We have recently learned that new power cables have been attached to the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Obviously, this is heartening news, although it remains to be seen whether the pumps are still functional once electricity has been restored. The IAEA … Continue reading
Nuclear threats to our health: what should we do?
The unfolding nuclear disaster at Fukushima has caused untold suffering to the Japanese people already reeling from an earthquake and a tsunami. Will Japan now abandon its nuclear policy, and switch to green energy as a must-do? What many outside … Continue reading
