Communication Breakdown: How Canadians Were Let Down on E. Coli Response

The Globe and Mail

PLT photo

Millions of Canadians have been fed a bunch of B.S. by those whose responsibility it is to prevent, contain and explain such public health disasters. Full story here.

Report Blames Pesticides for Illnesses

San Francisco Chronicle

Pesticides pervade the environment, from the air we breathe to the food we eat, and they are making children sicker than they were a generation ago, a new report warns. Details here.

Please also read: "Field of Nightmares" exploring the dark side of Roundup. 

Crop-duster in western Manitoba, CA. PLT photo

 

So You Don't Think Climate Change is Worth Fighting? Read on.

 DARA - a Madrid-based humanitrian group.

The Human Toll of Inaction Could Exceed 100 Million Deaths Between Now and 2030 Alone!

•Climate change and the carbon economy as estimated here are responsible for 5 million deaths each year today and cause illness in tens of million people globally comparable to the third leading cause of preventable death with a similar societal impact as tobacco use (see: Health Impact Climate/Carbon)

• The carbon economy claims the largest share of this impact, in particular
due to toxic air pollution, at over 4.5 million deaths a year today 

• Climate change is estimated to be responsible for 400,000 deaths
each year, particularly due to hunger and communicable diseases in the
lowest-income countries 

Arsenic in Our Food

Consumer Reports magazine: November 2012.

Our findings show a real need for federal standards for this toxin. Full story here.

Scientists: Climate Change Could Cause Coral Reef Extinction

Common Dreams.

 Photo credit: Quicksilver

Dwindling fish size and stock may lead to food insecurity. Details here.

Why Lake Winnipeg's Degredation is a Prairie-Wide Environmental Calamity

by Jim Harding
Industrial-agricultural contaminants and Regina’s poorly treated sewage are degrading the Qu’Appelle Valley lake chain. This is a microcosm of a much larger…Full story here.

Please also read, Lake Winnipeg Predicament a Human Creation, (a letter to the editor by John Fefchak).

THE END OF GROWTH – first in a series

by Jim Harding
In 1972 the book Limits to Growth was published. This year, forty years later, the book The End of Growth came out. Full story here.