July 24, 2009 LA Times health feature and photo essay on Kathy Hemenway and her non-toxic house in Snowflake, Arizona.
In search of a non-toxic home
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A Gypsy Life: Notes from the Diaspora
Mokihana and Pete of Washington state discuss their journey with chemical sensitivity, building a tiny safe home on wheels, and their gypsy lifestyle.
New healthier housing site: MCSsafehomes.com
Planet Thrive’s new free service for safer housing & trailer listings.
Dhaka’s air ‘killing 15,000 a year’
Dhaka’s air pollution poses a serious health hazard to the city’s residents with rising respiratory illnesses causing more than 15,000 deaths a year, says the Department for Environment.
Jellyfish threaten to ‘dominate’ oceans
Nitrogen and phosphorous run-off from development is causing red phytoplankton blooms, “which create low-oxygen dead zones where jellyfish survive, but fish can’t.”
ALS Cases Caused By Blue-Green Algae
Cases of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease, are twenty five times higher for people who live around Mascoma Lake in New Hampshire than the norm. These local occurrences of the fatal neurodegenerative disease have been linked to cyanobacteria.
Elle Magazine writer gets a taste of the wild life
Who would’ve thought that Elle Magazine would do a story on a rewilding center in New Mexico?
The Itch
Story by Atul Gawande in the New Yorker about a woman with uncontrollable itching whose case may provide a clue to a new theory about brains and bodies.
The Next Step? Ashok Gupta at the IACFS/ME Conference
Cort Johnson of the Phoenix Rising forums interviews Ashok Gupta on his Amygdala Retraining™ Program at the IACFS/ME Conference this year.
Impaired Brain Plasticity Linked To Angelman Syndrome Learning Deficits
Researchers believe that the disruption of a single gene in the brain can cause the severe cognitive deficits associated with Angelman syndrome, a neurogenetic disorder often misdiagnosed as cerebral palsy or autism…
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