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In a 48-9 vote in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, the New York State Senate voted in Senate Bill S8129B, which will ban the issuance of gas permits until May 2011. The concern most recently cited by Senators speaking in Albany late last night were dangers of contamination by chemicals used in fracking to New York City’s unfiltered water supply. This win for environmental safety, public health and clean drinking water, followed months of grass roots organizing efforts, along with mounting media coverage of gas drilling dangers, sparked by numerous incidents of spills, accidents, explosions, water contamination and recent deaths in neighboring states, similar to those captured in the film Gasland. Read More→
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7th,
2010
I’m a Health Maven, both an agent and a product of the self-help movement. But something funny happened on the way to transforming the world through transforming ourselves. A bunch of people who didn’t share our values got there first. Unfortunately, our compassion and positive intentions did not convey themselves to the hearts of corporate executives such that they dashed off their yachts to call back their lobbyists. Nor did they elect to self-regulate to keep our children and planet safe. Read More→
Categories : Environment and Health, Environment and Health Action, Environment and Health Community, Gasland, Green Health, Health + Environment, Water
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31st,
2010
My guests today on Activism for Health are actor Mark Ruffalo and activist Bruce Ferguson of Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy. Sometimes it’s not enough to tend to our own health. We have to step up to take social action for health. Alison Rose Levy (www.healthjournalist.com and @AlisonRoseLevy) talks with Read More→
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24th,
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Belleruth Naparstek is a psychotherapist, author and guided imagery innovator who has practiced psychotherapy for over 30 years. She is best known as the creator of the popular, 52-title Time Warner Health Journeys guided imagery audio series. Naparstek’s first book, Staying Well with Guided Imagery, is a widely used primer for Read More→
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Debbie Ford is a bestselling author, workshop leader, and trainer of transformational coaches. On this show we will discuss why the time has come to unite spirituality and activism, and how to do it. Debbie, whose website is www.debbieford.com is the co-author of the new book, The Shadow Effect: Illuminating the hidden power of your Read More→
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July
21st,
2010
Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D., an evolutionary biologist and futurist, and the author of the Earth Dance: Living Systems in Evolution, is the guest this week with Host Alison Rose Levy, health journalist and Huffington Post Living blogger (www.healthjournalist.com). They will discuss the crisis and the opportunity of living in an age of rapid evolution, and how we need a Read More→
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July
20th,
2010
Right now, Congress has stepped up its pace on the 36-year crawl towards assuring the safety of 80,000 chemicals to which infants, children, adults, food, air and water sources are regularly exposed, with most unstudied, and many causing health problems. And guess who has emerged as the self nominated new BFF of chemical safety? Why, behold, it’s the American Chemistry Council! Read More→
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July
1st,
2010
The peaceful Delaware River-- now the most endangered river in America
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Deepak Chopra and a group called the Evolutionary Leaders issued a Gulf Call to Sacred Action last week–to help spark a broad and multi-faceted popular response to the Gulf oil spill through integrating spirituality and activism. At long last! Read More→
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