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Chemical Sensitivity News ( 1 - 40 of 59 items)

• MCS book to become a radio series in the near future
  Two professional actors have been hired. A moderator has also been hired to coordinate the recordings. The whole book has been set to music and accompanied by background music.
• Fiscal Support for HUD Housing
  Help save people at risk of homelessness who are currently receiving Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers. Make a phone call before Thursday, July 1st in support of funding for this program.
• Help end the Smart Meter madness
  If you haven't heard, electric companies around the country are planning to install wireless "smart meters" in our backyards and we cannot currently opt-out of this program, even for health reasons.
• Are we creating our own toxic oil spill?
  by Annie Hopper | It is time for us to collectively wake up and change the way that we live on this planet. I can only hope that the Gulf Oil Spill becomes a big catalyst in this global wake up call.
• First case against William J. Rea, M.D. dismissed; more to go
  Help defend Dr. Rea's world renowned practice in Environmental Medicine against the accusations of the Texas Medical Board.
• Beyond Sustainability: Building for Health
  A new conversation: What are intentional communities willing to do in order to accommodate those with chemical, electrical, and other environmental sensitivities?
• Julie Genser and Julie Laffin talk about re|shelter, their new non-profit
  Liz Smentowski and Scott Killingsworth talk to Julie Genser and Julie Laffin, the co-founders of re|shelter, to find out more about the non-profit's origins and future goals.
• New non-profit to address MCS housing crisis
  Re|shelter is a new non-profit organization forming to address the urgent need for housing alternatives for people with environmental intolerances.
• May is MCS Awareness Month
  Take time during the month of May to self educate yourself about the condition known as chemical sensitivity, or environmental intolerance.
• A Winding Path
  This is the story of how Loe Griffith has faced the challenges of chemical and electrical hypersensitivities (MCS and EHS), and how she adapted to her sensitivities and made a life in southern Arizona.
• May is Lyme and MCS Awareness Month
  Help spread awareness by sharing your story on blogs and websites in both written and video format.
• How to read if printing inks and papers make you sick
  Some options for book lovers who are reactive to printed reading materials.
• Non-toxic spec homes
  Joy Beach Thomas builds environmentally safer homes made from less toxic building materials, and then sells them to people with environmental sensitivities.
• TV/computer boxes for the chemically and electrically sensitive
  Some of my environmentally sensitive friends have adapted various ways that make viewing TV and using computers tolerable.
• $50K for MCS housing projects – VOTE TODAY!
  Get your vote in today for James Van Raden's entry in the Pepsi Refresh Challenge for affordable MCS housing!
• Annie Hopper meets with neuroplasticity author Norman Doidge, MD
  The creator of the Dynamic Neural Retraining System™ talks face-to-face with the author of The Brain That Changes Itself about chemical intolerance and the promise of a brain plasticity treatment approach.
• Bene’s Battle Is Not Yet Over
  Bene Barrymore, a senior who should be enjoying a comfortable retirement, is instead appealing to her community to help her repair her car so she can seek safe shelter before pesticide spraying season starts.
• Interview with Laurie Tümer, MCS Landlord
  The owner of Eco-Casitas for Traveling Canaries in Espanola, New Mexico shares tips for running your own MCS guest house.
• Chemically Sensitive Artist Reveals Pesticide Trail
  An interview with fine art photographer Laurie Tümer about her illuminating body of work.
• Seeking Participants for MCS Work Study
  MCS researcher Pamela Reed Gibson, PhD and her team at James Madison University are seeking participants for a new study of persons with chemical sensitivities in the workplace.
• Call for submissions: Scarsongs
  Submit your writing and art for an anthology articulating the terrain of trauma and resilience - a collaboration of the Icarus Project, the Bay Area Radical Mental Health Collective, and Activist Trauma Support.
• New on PT: Site Map
  Planet Thrive has added a site map that lists all the sections of the site in "outline" form in order to help visitors navigate around the comprehensive website.
• Chicago Tribune features chemically sensitive artist
  The Chicago Tribune presents an inspiring account of one woman's struggle to overcome severely isolating and disabling chemical sensitivity.
• Artists: Win a 3 Bedroom House in Maine!
  One lucky artist may be the new owner of this 3 bedroom house located in Sanford, Maine -- if they can write the winning essay for the Artist's House Essay Contest.
• Interview with performance artist Julie Laffin
  Moving Beyond MCS, a blog about recovering from environmental illness, has published an interview with performance artist Julie Laffin that explores how her work has evolved due to her illness.
• Unravelling the Mystery of Autism
  E Magazine's cover story this month connects environmental toxicity with autism -- shining light on the link between children with autism and adults with environmental illness.
• Hope for MCS/EI housing communities?
  A general contractor/developer from Fargo, North Dakota appeared on Facebook.com last week to announce his interest in tackling the housing crisis of the chemically sensitive.
• A Few Select Safer Condos in Dallas Being Offered for Sale
  As of December 1, 2009, a few select Regina Caeli Environmental Condos in Dallas are being offered for sale at $105,000. Buyers may be eligible for the Homebuyers Tax Credits, available until April 30, 2010.
• Nesting Instinct: A Survey of Bedding Options for the Chemically Sensitive
  Julie Genser presents an array of sleeping solutions for those unable to tolerate chemicals in conventional mattresses and bedding materials.
• 12 Ways to Stay Warm this Winter with Severe MCS/ES
  For those with severe chemical and electrical sensitivities, staying warm through a cold winter can be quite challenging. Here are 12 tips for conserving body heat and surviving the coming winter season.
• MCS Brain Retraining: Medical Scam or Breakthrough?
  The Canary Report's recently published op-ed "The False Promise of Miracle Cures for MCS" by Lourdes Salvador and Linda Sepp is full of disinformation.
• Naked and Caged: A Nightmare Come True
  Right this moment, former professional concert pianist and music teacher, Maha Laxmi, is sitting naked in her bed somewhere in Canada, under a Faraday cage -- a structure that blocks wireless signals.
• Brain plasticity and chemical sensitivity
  Canadian radio host Murray Langdon interviews Annie Hopper, a core belief counselor who claims she rewired her brain and healed herself from severe chemical and electrical sensitivities, as well as fibromyalgia.
• Online fundraiser for severe ME/CFS and MCS sufferer
  Help Jason keep his love Nicole afloat: on "bad days" she cannot speak and can barely turn over in bed. With savings dwindling quickly, they are appealing to friends and family for help.
• Understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
  An interview with Dutch author Els Valkenburg, whose book "Understanding Multiple Chemical Sensitivity: Causes, Effects, Personal Experiences and Resources" was recently translated into English.
• When Illness Strikes, Men Leave More Often
  WebMD shares the results of a new study that shows women with cancer and multiple sclerosis are more likely than men to become separated or divorced.
• Safe Houses: Only for the affluent?
  Barbara Eaton, president of a regional chapter of The National Association of the Physically Handicapped, writes about how people with MCS who have few resources end up as housing refugees.
• Missing: A life broken by Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
  Salvador López Arnal interviews Eva Caballé, Spanish author and MCS activist, about her new book "Desaparecida. Una vida rota por la sensibilidad química múltiple" ("Missing. A life broken by Multiple Chemical Sensitivities").
• Call for chemical free zone
  Tami Duncan, Executive Director of the Lyme Induced Autism Foundation sends out a plea to parents and practitioners of autistic children to refrain from wearing perfume, and other scented products.
• Pesticide kills humans but not bugs
  Twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth Whitfield's mobile home is still infested with insects after using a bug spray but her 10-month-old baby is dead and her 2-year-old son was critically injured.