#504
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Dr. Gururaj Mutalik, executive director, and Dr. John Pastore, a board member, of the Nobel Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War speak of how the grouping of physicians from over 80 countries works to oppose nuclear weapons and nuclear war. They tell of their Abolition 2000 campaign, to get the world's government to agree by the year 2000 on a firm timetable for the elimination of nuclear arms. And they discuss IPPNW's new report, Crude Nuclear Weapons, Proliferation and the Terrorist Threat.

#511
Cancer-Environment Connection
The close linkage between environmental pollution and cancer is discussed by biologist Dr. Sandra Steingraber and Ellen Crowley, both of the Women's Community Cancer Project of Cambridge/Boston. Dr. Steingraber is author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment.

#513
The Enemy Within
Dr. Jay M. Gould, author of The Enemy Within, The High Cost Of Living Near Nuclear Reactors, outlines its findings of a correlation between deadly diseases and proximity to nuclear reactors. Gould offers statistical evidence that residents of "nuclear counties" -- 1,321 U.S. counties within 100 miles of nuclear reactors -- suffer from a variety of illnesses, including breast cancer, disproportionately to others in the population.

#518
Lead Poisoning
Dr. Evelyn A. Mauss, a leading figure in the exploration of the dangers of lead poisoning, physiologist at New York University and consultant to the Natural Resources Defense Council, explains how lead came to be widely used in various products -- from paint to plumbing --its toll in illness and death, and what must still be done to eliminate this threat to public health.

#519
EMF
Dr. Louis Slesin, editor and publisher of Microwave News, a pioneer in exposing the dangers of electromagnetic fields, points to the sources of EMF-- from power lines to electric blankets to cellular phones -- and describes the efforts by industry to downplay the effects of EMF and outlines past and current research.

#526
We Are All Downwinders
New findings of the National Cancer Institute that U.S. nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s and 60s exposed people throughout the U.S. to radioactivity are discussed by Dr. David Rush, member of the board of directors of Physicians for Social Responsibility and co-chairman of the Greater Boston chapter of International Physicians, and Dr. Glenn Alcalay, who has specialized in researching human experiments with radioactivity.

#533
INFACT
Kathryn Mulvey of INFACT and Lucinda Wyckle Rosenberg, INFACT’s communications director, speak about the Boston based organization’s crusade against corporations “who exert undue influence over the political process at the expense of public health and safety.”

#541
Michael Mariotte: The State of Nuclear Power Today
Videotaped at the Northeast Action Camp for a Nuclear-Free New England. Michael Mariotte provides a comprehensive picture of the world-wide nuclear power situation. He talks about his trip to Chernobyl and effective challenges to nuclear technology in Europe and the US.

#542
Karl Z. Morgan: Founder of Health Physics
Dr. Morgan reviews a career that started with his developing the profession of health physics during World War II's Manhattan Project--his setting of standards for radiation exposure. Yet in recent times, charges Dr. Morgan, the health physics field has largely become prostituted under pressure of a nuclear establishment seeking to promote atomic technology despite the serious health consequences. This Enviro Close-Up was taped shortly before Dr. Morgan's death and represents a chilling, important farwell message from this important figure.

#543
Alice Stewart: Radiation Research Pioneer
Dr. Stewart, in the 1950s, performed the pivotal studies that found that children whose mothers received small amounts of radiation through X-rays--amounts not thought to be dangerous--had twice the risk of developing leukemia. She faced fierce attacks for this and other landmark research into the health impacts of radiation. Nevertheless, now in her 90s, Dr. Stewart goes on with her landmark work continuing to document the effects to health of "low-level" radioactivity.

#110
Food Irradiation
For decades the nuclear industry has promoted food irradiation to extend its storage life and develop a use for nuclear wastes. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has been urging the mandatory radiation exposure of meat. In 1992 the first U.S. food irradiation plant (the Vindicator facility in Florida) opened - with food irradiation proponents hoping it would be the first of thousands. In this Enviro Close-Up, Michael Colby, executive director of Food & Water, Inc., the principal group fighting food irradiation in the U.S. , details the technology’s history and current status, and connects food irradiation to cancer.

#125
Judith Johnsrud and Dr. Donnell W. Boardman
Johnsrud, director of Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power and Dr. Boardman, founder of the Center for Atomic Radiation Studies, speak of the impacts of radiation on health.

#128
Radiation Guinea Pigs
Sandra “” Marlow, whose information led to public disclosures that young people at the Fernald State School were being used for radiation experiments, and Daniel Burnstein, president of the Center for Atomic Radiation Studies, discuss US citizens being used as radiation test subjects.

 #136
Dr. Theo Colborn of World Wildlife Fund
The noted researcher discusses a massive study she conducted as senior scientist of the World Wildlife Fund - documenting dire and widespread health impacts to life on earth from toxic chemicals.

#157
Breast Cancer and the Environment
The relationship between breast cancer and environmental pollution is being increasingly realized. With one in eight women in the U.S. expected to develop breast cancer in their lifetimes - a dramatic increase - victims of breast cancer, environmental activists and independent medical experts are fighting back. In this Enviro Close-Up, Dr. Cathie Ragovin and Janet Marrinan of the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition and Dr. Carlos Sonnenschein of the Tufts University School of Medicine detail the breast cancer-environment link and describe efforts to get at and stop the causes of breast cancer.

#171
A Good Environment: The Ultimate Preventive Medicine
Dr. Eric Chivian, director of the Project on Global Environmental Change and Health of Physicians for Social Responsibility, says that global environmental degradation is a human health issue. Humans are totally dependent on a healthy environment but the health effects of a bad environment are relatively neglected in the environmental debate, says Dr. Chivian, clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We must "begin to break the silence," he says. The health and lives of people in this and future generations depend on it.

#182
The Poisoning Of Our Food
Michael Colby, executive director of Food & Water, Inc., details the push by the Monsanto corporation to have its rBGH or recombinant bovine growth hormone used in dairy cows, the spread of chemical-based agriculture and the latest developments in the drive for radiation-exposing food - and how Walden, Vermont-based Food & Water successfully challenges the forces that would poison our food.

#185
Mothers & Others
Mothers & Others, organized by actress Meryl Streep and other mothers concerned about the health impacts of pesticides in their childrens' food, has become a major national group. Its communication director, Elaine Lipson, describes how Mothers & Others promotes organic food and other safe and ecologically sustainable consumer choices.

#188
Toxics Action
Effective strategies to combat the discharge of poisons into the environment are outlined by Matthew Wilson, director of the Massachusetts Campaign to Clean Up Hazardous Waste, and Cindy Luppi, Massachusetts organizing director for Clean Water Action.

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