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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 97 13:46:58 EST
From: grussell@nybg.org
Subject: "Rachel's Daughters" tv program
Tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 28th, HBO will air an important
television documentary, "Rachel's Daughters". This two-hour special
discusses the connections between women's breast cancer, endocrine
disruption and hormonal damage, toxics and their sources in
manufacturing and our environment, consumerism and excessive
consumption, EMFs, toxic racism and environmental justice,
corporations, and the dreadful impacts all of these can have on our
personal lives and health. It is inspired by Rachel Carson.
This show is important because it suggests that not enough is being
done to educate women about these issues and their connections, and
that cancer and toxics are emerging as feminist issues. I was so
knocked out that a show like this was on national tv that I called HBO
to rave and asked about when it will be on again. If you like it
tomorrow night, do the same!
HBO, 6pm-8pm (E.S.T.), Tuesday, October 28th.
Gray Russell
Compost Project Manager
Bronx Green-Up
The New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, N. Y. 10458-5126
grussell@nybg.org
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 97 16:52:52 EST
From: grussell@nybg.org
Subject: "Rachel's Daughters" tv program
Tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 28th, HBO will air an important
television documentary, "Rachel's Daughters". This two-hour special
discusses the connections between women's breast cancer, endocrine
disruption and hormonal damage, toxics and their sources in
manufacturing and our environment, consumerism and excessive
consumption, EMFs, toxic racism and environmental justice,
corporations, and the dreadful impacts all of these can have on our
personal lives and health. It is inspired by Rachel Carson.
This show is important because it suggests that not enough is being
done to educate women about these issues and their connections, and
that cancer and toxics are emerging as feminist issues. I was so
knocked out that a show like this was on national tv that I called HBO
to rave and asked about when it will be on again. If you like it
tomorrow night, do the same!
HBO, 6pm-8pm (E.S.T.), Tuesday, October 28th.
Gray Russell
Compost Project Manager
Bronx Green-Up
The New York Botanical Garden
Bronx, N. Y. 10458-5126
grussell@nybg.org
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Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:09:33 +0900
From: oldxeye@crisscross.com (Hop)
Subject: Latest Greenhouse News from Around the World - Web site
Dear GreenY's,
I hope you think the following is a helpful resource. If so, please forward
my message below to all those you think may benefit from it.
Regards,
Hop
Dear hard-working Greenhouse campaigners,
Knowing how busy you all are, I've created a web page providing easy-access
links to (english language) news items around the world. My intention is to
scan world media and update the links on a daily basis in the lead-up to
December's Global Climate Change Conference in Kyoto, Japan.
By making it easy for you to get a first hand account of the
country-by-country developments, and enabling you access to the public
opinion being expressed, I hope to save you each a bit of time and energy,
and provide you with a campaign tool which enables your efforts to be
directed to those activities you think are most worthwhile.
The address for 'Latest Greenhouse News' is:
http://www.crisscross.com/Users/oldxeye/Greenhouse/LatestGreenhouseNews.html
Keep up your good work, I hope this helps.
Regards,
Hop
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 10:58:31 -0500
From: Richard_Denison@edf.org
Subject: Pigmented milk jugs -- why we need EPR
This a classic example of the need for adoption of the extended producer
responsibility (EPR concept) and its specific application in this case
through "design for recyclability." Assuming there is in fact a legitimate
product protection issue here, Hood's mistake was in not even considering
how solving their problem might create new ones beyond their own "four
walls," i.e., ignoring the downstream implications of their decision.
From: ccfred@ici.net on 10/24/97 12:28 PM AST
To: GreenYes@ucsd.edu
cc: (bcc: Joel Plagenz)
Subject: Colored Plastic Milk Jugs
I have been in touch a little with Hood-- they're office is across the
street from mine. Their stated reason for the change is vitamin
degradation. I remember hearing this argument a long time ago to promote
paper over glass or plastic milk containers, so it is an argument that has
been around for a while. I would like to know (and hope to find out):
1)how much of the light the milk is exposed to is before (vs. after) it is
in the package
2) what kind of light breaks down the vitamins. My guess is that the
majority of the light that the milk is exposed to after it is in the
container is in the supermarket. If so, maybe the lights in the milk
section could be inexpensively changed. I have a cousin who works with
lasers and light who has said she would be glad to look at any information
I can get and see if there might be a different type of light that would
work.
Personally, though, I think that if Hood is right about the vitamin
degradation, they have every right to try and protect their product.
Amy Perlmutter
Executive Director
Chelsea Center for Recycling and
Economic Development
180 Second Street
Chelsea, MA 02150
617-887-2300/fax 617-887-0399
Richard A. Denison, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist
Environmental Defense Fund and Alliance for Environmental Innovation
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 1016
Washington, DC 20009
Phone 202/387-3500
Fax 202/234-6049
email richard@edf.org
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 12:10:23 -0500
From: "Marjorie J. Clarke" <mclarke@shiva.hunter.cuny.edu>
Subject: Query regarding hardware needed to set up a small webserver
A nonprofit environmental group and a university research center in NYC are
planning to set up an electronic trading post for office products and
materials, and would like to have part of it on a website. I'd be most
obliged to get some advice on hardware (type/model) of webserver, modems,
lines, etc... , operating system and software needed to set up one's own
webserver.
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Marjorie J. Clarke
Environmental Scientist and Consultant
http://everest.hunter.cuny.edu/~mclarke/index.htm
http://everest.hunter.cuny.edu/~mclarke/moodyblu.htm
New York City Phone & Fax: 212-567-8272
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