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5 Green Sleeper Issues in the 2008 Election

August 26, 2008 at 5:15PM By Diane MacEachern | comment

Will the next president do more for the environment than focus on energy?

It may be sacrilege to say so, but there’s more to protecting the environment than stopping global warming, especially where women are concerned.

I admit this acknowledging that climate change is probably the pre-eminent environmental issue of our time. Melting ice caps, catastrophic hurricanes and droughts, rising sea level, and changing weather patterns are altering the very nature of Nature. By and large, scientists agree that the window of opportunity to reverse the atmospheric build-up of hothouse gases like carbon dioxide is rapidly closing. Predictions for an overheated future grow more dire every day.

Still, moment to moment, our lives are affected in a more immediate way by other environmental threats that have been completely ignored by the Bush Administration. Will the next president have the foresight to tackle them sooner rather than later? ...

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6 Facts About Breast Cancer

May 1, 2008 at 4:24PM By Diane MacEachern | comment

Dr. Janet Gray, a scientist at Vassar College and director of the school's Science, Technology and Society program, recently collaborated with the Breast Cancer Fund to issue a report on the dangers women face from environmental factors that cause breast cancer. I interviewed Dr. Gray and reviewed the report; here are the highlights:

Breast cancer strikes more women in the world than any other type of cancer except skin cancer.
In the U.S., a woman's lifetime risk of breast cancer increased steadily and dramatically during the 20th century.
Today, a woman's lifetime risk of breast cancer is one in eight. ...

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