Educate Yourself

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing."
-Albert Einstein

Welcome to the GREEN LIFE – a practical guide to healthier living practices.

In our ongoing Search for the Cause, we utilize and review an enormous collection of common information, research, science and wisdom related to health, cancer risk and prevention, and precautionary practices.  We have come up with the Green Life as a simple way to share information and useful resources.  This is by no means an exhaustive list: it’s a continual “work in progress” that will be updated regularly. 

Please let us know if we’ve missed any!

Top Picks — A list of our current favorite sites

http://www.ewg.org
Environmental Working Group – providing environmental investigations to expose threats to your health and environment, and to find solutions.  Great link to current health related news items.

www.treehugger.com
Tree Hugger – a great, “Green Lifestyle” filter  -- a resourceful site with information to find well-designed products and services that are modern yet also ecologically sensitive.

http://www.cehmicalbodyburden.org/whatisbb.htm
Body Burden – toxic chemicals permeate our bodies – we may inhale them, swallow them or absorb them through skin.  The term body burden refers to the total amount of these chemicals that are present in the human body at a given point in time.

http://www.safecosmetics.org
The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics is a coalition of public health, and various other groups to protect consumers and workers by requiring the health/beauty industry to phase out the use of harmful chemical and replace with safer alternatives.

http://www.checnet.org
Children’s Health Environmental Coalition (CHEC) is a national non-profit dedicated to educating the public about environmental issues that affect children’s health.  A great resource for everyone.  We love their “HealtheHouse” virtual tour.

http://www.thegreenguide.com
The Green Guide Institute brings you objective and accurate web-based environmental and health information.

http://www.breastcancerfund.org
Breast Cancer Fund is the leading national organization focused on identifying the causes of breast cancer and prevention.

http://www.commonweal.org
Commonweal is a highly regarded nonprofit health and environmental research institute.

http://www.panna.org
PANNA (Pesticide Action Network North America) works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. They link varied group to form an international citizens action network.

http://www.nrdc.org
Natural resources Defense Council website provides tools, tips and information to better understand and protect our earth and it's natural treasures.

http://www.greenhome.com
Green Home Environmental Store – A great web-based environmental store and resource center.

http://ota.com
Organic Trade Association – a business association for the Organic Trade Industry.

http://www.cspinet.org
Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The Precautionary Principle

http://www.biotech-info.net/handbook.pdf
The Precautionary Principle in Action – a handbook written for the Science and Environmental Health Network

http://www.biotech-info.net/uncertainty.html
The New Uncertainty Principle – article from Scientific American

http://www.mindfully.org/Precaution/Michael-Pollan-NYT9dec01.htm
Precautionary Principle by Michael Pollan – article from NY Times Magazine, Dec. 2001

The Precautionary Principle

"Better safe than sorry"

The Marin Cancer Projects core values and underlying guidelines and are based on the Precautionary Principle.

It is a willingness to take action before scientific proof is fully established Precautionary action should be taken when an activity poses risk to environmental or human health. On the grounds that further delay will prove costly to society and nature and in the long term, selfish and unfair to future generations.

Learn more about the Precautionary Principle…