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Arthur Firstenberg of the Cellular Phone Task Force has alerted us to BBC’s World News America segment about electromagnetic sensitivity, to be aired on PBS stations Tuesday evening, September 13. The piece was filmed in Green Bank, West Virginia, the site of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Arthur explains:
To protect the observatory from interference, a Radio Quiet Zone is enforced in the area around Green Bank. Nobody within a 13,000 square mile area around the observatory is allowed to put up any radio antennas without consulting the observatory. This is the only legally protected Radio Quiet Zone in the world. A growing community of electrically sensitive people live in Green Bank. BBC News became alerted to this problem as a result of the recent scientific study by Dr. Andrew Marino.”
Please check your local TV listings to find out what time it will air in your area.
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Earthwalker is the username that PT founder Julie Genser created for her online interactions so many years ago when first creating Planet Thrive.
Julie's (Earthwalker's) life was derailed over twenty years ago when she had a very large organic mercury exposure after she naively used a mouth thermometer to measure the temperature of just-boiled milk while making her very first pizza at home. The mercury instantly expanded into a gas form and exploded out the back of the thermometer right into her face. Unaware that mercury was the third most neurotoxic element on Earth, Julie had no idea she had just received a very high dose of a poisonous substance.
A series of subsequent toxic exposures over the next few years -- to smoke from two fires (including 9/11), toxic mold, lyme disease, and chemical injuries -- caused catastrophic damage to her health. While figuring out how to survive day-to-day, and often minute-to-minute, she created Planet Thrive to help others avoid some of the misdiagnoses and struggles she had experienced.
She has clawed her way over many health mountains to get to where she is today. She is excited to bring the latest iteration of Planet Thrive to the chronic illness community.
In 2019, Julie published her very first cookbook e-book called Low Lectin Lunches (+ Dinners, Too!) after discovering how a low lectin, gluten free diet was helping manage her chronic fascia/muscle pain.
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WHAT TIME IS THE SHOW TONITE?
PBS – BBS
JUDITH
WHAT TIME IS THE SHOW TONITE? EST,
PBS – BBS
JUDITH
Could I please have more details? I searched several things, including BBS, on our local PBS site and couldn’t find anything. I’m in Pittsburgh – station is WQED. What show is it? How should I search?
Maybe they’ll have it available to watch online.
Thank you very much.
Here is the segment if you were unable to find the show in your area: ‘Allergic’ to wi-fi and seeking refuge in West Virginia.
WNYC picked up the BBC story but gave a more balanced rendition of it. Here’s the link:
http://www.thetakeaway.org/2011/sep/14/west-virginia-provides-haven-people-allergic-wifi/