Protecting our Children – Sandra Steingraber May 13-Vestal

A FREE TALK BY DR. SANDRA STEINGRABER    Poster   Poster 2/page

Author whose book has been featured as an HBO movie “Living Downstream”

The audio for this event is here:
http://changetheframe.com/audio/sandra_steingraber_vestal_may13-2011/steingraber-audio.mp3

Friday, May 13, 2011 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm)

Clayton Ave Elementary School, 209 Clayton Ave, Vestal, NY

Dr. Sandra Steingraber is a mother, biologist, ecologist and cancer survivor who has won the Rachel Carson award for her writing about the connection between our health and the environment.  She looks at the toxic, ecologically fractured world our children now inhabit and invites all parents and those concerned to attend this event and learn about the increasing toxic load we all have to carry.  Toxins have been implicated in such problems as childhood cancers, asthma, autism, allergies, reproductive problems and autoimmune problems.  Dr. Steingraber will be available for a book signing of her new book, “Raising Elijah,” following the talk. 

*Sponsored by Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition

“Steingraber’s book is a deeply thoughtful, at times frightening, but ultimately hopeful book that describes in compelling and lyrical detail the two great, intertwined ecological crises of our time – the crisis of toxic chemical exposure and the crisis of global warming.  She argues that mastery of these crises will require heroic action, societal action on a scale as great as that which ended slavery in the United States, and is essential to save our planet and our children.”

-Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., MSc, Director, Children’s Environmental Health Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine