POLICY/ACTIVISM

MCS Film Being Screened Friday

by Marie LeBlanc | Nov 11, 2023

The short film ‘Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Environmental Illness’ will be screened this Friday at 3pm PST.

MCS Film Featured in Film Festival

by Marie LeBlanc | Aug 16, 2023

The short film Multiple Chemical Sensitivity & Environmental Illness-Awareness & Acknowledgement is being featured in a film festival this week.

Overdressed

by Marie LeBlanc | Jun 18, 2021

Below are photos from my photography exhibit Overdressed, a docu-series taken over two years showing the serious realities of living with environmental illness, while wearing my fanciest piece of clothing, a blue gown. A special thanks to Mentoring Artists for Women’s...

The unstoppable Amelia Hill

by Earthwalker | Nov 17, 2013

Long-time Planet Thrive member and survivor of severe environmental illness and myalgic encephalomyelitis, Amelia Hill flies the flag for invisible illness.

$13.5K in Safe Oasis grants awarded to prevent MCS homelessness

by Earthwalker | Oct 17, 2012

Housing non-profit re|shelter awarded $13,500 in Safe Oasis housing renovation grants last week.

Brainstorming about our survival

by Earthwalker | Feb 7, 2012

A proposal for a 21st century hunter-gatherer economic model for the chronically ill, incorporating ideas from traditional micro-businesses and small women’s cooperatives, the local currency movement, transition towns and other creative ideas.

Re|shelter Holiday Auction: A call for in-kind donations

by Earthwalker | Oct 24, 2011

Re|shelter, the non-profit 501(c)(3) charity recently formed to address the housing crisis for those displaced by disabling environmental intolerances, is planning their first fundraising event: a Holiday Auction on eBay.