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By Carolyn Raffensperger On the morning of August 11th, 2010 residents in Ames Iowa were awakened by a robo-call from the city. “Prepare for unprecedented flooding. Move to high ground. “ Squaw Creek and the Skunk River rose to heights never before seen, even in the disastrous floods of 1993. Soon all [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger In 1998 Jane Lubchenco, now head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency called for a new social contract for scientists. She said: “As the magnitude of human impacts on the ecological systems of the planet becomes apparent, there is increased realization of the intimate connections between these systems and human health, the [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger The BP disaster demands justice. People are looking for asses to kick, ways to make BP–or the government—pay for their failures. Some have argued that we are all to blame because we use fossil fuels. Others argue that the oil industry is solely liable because they were negligent, under-prepared and [...] By Nancy Myers I’m an expectant grandmother. I feel the joy of this in my heart region, just about six inches above where I feel the pain of the ongoing hemorrhage of oil into the Gulf. Heart joy vs. sick feeling in the pit of the stomach. Contradictory but related. Warren Levy puts these together in an [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Last week (May 2-9, 2010), I was a member of the Defending Sacred Places Advocacy Delegation, a project of the Women’s Earth Alliance. We met with Native American leaders in Nevada and Arizona seeking ways to use the law to protect sacred sites from mining and pollution. Here is an update of my [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Note: This is an essay I wrote for a feature on Faith and Thought that ran in our local paper during 2007. It was originally entitled “Returning Soldier Has Much to Teach Us” and was published in Mid-Iowa News, February 2007. I was reminded of it by a recent conversation with [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger Perhaps the old reductionistic, objective science is a form of autism. This is the science that promotes dissecting frogs, but not loving them enough to work to protect them. It is the science that does risk assessment on toxic chemicals and says that some childhood cancers are acceptable. It is science [...] Guest Blog by Caitlin Sislin As a young environmental attorney, I am fortunate to count Carolyn Raffensperger as one of my most trusted mentors. Carolyn’s advice and guidance deeply inform my work as the Advocacy Director for Women’s Earth Alliance, where I am building and stewarding a new pro bono legal and policy advocacy initiative to [...] By Carolyn Raffensperger A year and a half ago I made a pilgrimage to Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico to deliver my library of Puebloan archaeology and anthropology books to the Haak’u Museum. The museum had no books and I had one of the finest collections in private hands. Since I had gotten most [...] By Nancy Myers My colleagues and I at the Science and Environmental Health Network often focus on the problem of complexity in environmental health: the fact that multiple factors figure in health and disease, that these diverse factors often work together and create multiplying effects, that small assaults have cumulative impacts, that genetics and environmental exposures [...] |
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