Every week, Sandra Steingraber writes an essay on environmental health inspired by a quote from a noteworthy thinker, activist, or artist. Each piece employs Sandra’s signature style: addressing complex scientific and social issues with stories and musings from her life as a cancer survivor, biologist, and mother. These essays are cross-posted on Huffington Post.
Jul 08, 2010 /
A Bridge to Somewhere - Responding to the President’s Cancer Panel Report (Part 3)
Two cancer narratives compete for the president’s attention—and for ours.
Read MoreJun 16, 2010 /
A Bridge to Somewhere - Responding to the President’s Cancer Panel Report (Part 2)
The new President’s Cancer Panel report on the environment shows us where to begin a meaningful program of cancer prevention.
Read MoreJun 08, 2010 /
A Bridge to Somewhere - Responding to the President’s Cancer Panel Report (Part 1)
A recently released report from the President’s Cancer Panel finds that the environment plays a much bigger role in the story of human cancer than previously appreciated. The Congressional briefing organized to discuss these results played to a full house.
Read MoreMay 25, 2010 /
The Hope Inside Canada’s Garbage Cans
In Canada, redefining the word trash may send engineers back to their drawing boards—and keep dioxins out of the food chain.
Read MoreMay 11, 2010 /
Canadian Bylaws; American Lawn Flags
The smell of lawn chemicals is as dependable a harbinger of spring as robins and lilacs. Not in big parts of Canada, where many municipalities and provinces have opted to abolish the cosmetic use of pesticides on the grounds that the links between pesticide exposure and childhood cancer are too troubling to ignore. So, how come we’re still using them?
Read MoreMay 06, 2010 /
Escape from the Heartland— Atrazine, Susan G. Komen, and KFC
The pesticide atrazine—with its possible links to breast cancer—is making headlines as the EPA opens a new investigation and a member of Congress calls for its outright abolition. What does the leading breast cancer advocacy organization say about atrazine? Nothing. It’s busy peddling pink buckets of deep-fried chicken breasts. Really.
Read MoreApr 28, 2010 /
Release the Day—My Secret Desire to Waste Time, Investigate the Past, and Imagine the Future
Living each day as if it were your last is not all it’s cracked up to be. In fact, discounting the future and ignoring the past is how we’ve contaminated the earth with toxic chemicals in the first place.
Read MoreApr 20, 2010 /
Life After Cancer—The Identity That Has No Name
A funny thing happened on the way to making a documentary film about, among other things, my life as a longtime cancer survivor. With the cameras rolling, I received some unsettling medical news.
Read MoreApr 13, 2010 /
The Unhappy Beginnings of Cancer’s Happy Endings
With the Relay for Life season upon us, I am less interested in celebrating my own survival from cancer and more interested in abolishing carcinogens so that my own two children will never have to run the survivors’ lap of honor.
Read MoreApr 08, 2010 /
Earth Day—The View from the F Terminal
Every spring semester, the great triumvirate of commemorative events—Black History Month, Women's History Month, and Earth Day—arrives on college campuses as predictably as the return of robins. As a woman scientist who is called forth to podiums across the nation during two of the three months of back-to-back teach-ins, I believe in their power to inspire and educate. But Earth Day needs to take a lesson from the other two.
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Ecologist, author, and cancer survivor Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized authority on the environmental links to cancer and reproductive health.
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