Arianna Huffington and Deepak Chopra, M.D. Honored at Oceana Partner Awards Gala

Celebrity attendees included January Jones, Neal Gray CEO CTNDigital, Morgan Freeman, Ted Danson

Deepak Chopra,Keri Selig, Arriana Huffington, Ed Begley Jr.,Zach Galifianakis, Jusin Bartha

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Outside Lands and Dave Matthews

Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors, Says New Report By International EMF Collaborative

Cellphones Cause Brain Tumors, Says New Report By International EMF Collaborative



A new report, “Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern, Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone,” was released today by a collaborative of international EMF activists. Groups affiliated with the report include Powerwatch and the Radiation Research Trust in the U.K., and in the U.S., EMR Policy Institute, ElectromagenticHealth.org and The Peoples Initiative Foundation. Download the report.

www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/15reasons.asp

http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/reasons_us.pdf

The exposé discusses research on cellphones and brain tumors and concludes:

- There is a risk of brain tumors from cellphone use;

- Telecom funded studies underestimate the risk of brain tumors, and;

- Children have larger risks than adults for brain tumors.

This report, sent to government leaders and media today, details eleven design flaws of the 13-country, Telecom-funded Interphone study. The Interphone study, begun in 1999, was intended to determine the risks of brain tumors, but its full publication has been held up for years. Components of this study published to date reveal what the authors call a ’systemic-skew’, greatly underestimating brain tumor risk.

The design flaws include categorizing subjects who used portable phones (which emit the same microwave radiation as cellphones,) as ‘unexposed’; exclusion of many types of brain tumors; exclusion of people who had died, or were too ill to be interviewed, as a consequence of their brain tumor; and exclusion of children and young adults, who are more vulnerable.

Lloyd Morgan, lead author and member of the Bioelectromagnetics Society says, “Exposure to cellphone radiation is the largest human health experiment ever undertaken, without informed consent, and has some 4 billion participants enrolled. Science has shown increased risk of brain tumors from use of cellphones, as well as increased risk of eye cancer, salivary gland tumors, testicular cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and leukemia. The public must be informed.”

International scientists endorsing “Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern” include Ronald B. Herberman, MD, Director Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute; David Carpenter, MD, Director, Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany; Martin Blank, PhD, Associate Professor of Physiology and Cellular Biophysics, Columbia University; Professor Yury Grigoriev, Chairman of Russian National Committee on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection, and many others. =

Urge The Government to Protect Sea Turtles

Urge the government to protect sea turtles!

Sea turtles have been swimming in the world’s oceans for more than 100 million years. While they have been able to survive many challenges over the years, sea turtles are not equipped to withstand the threat humans pose.

Untargeted or discarded catch, also known as bycatch, is an enormous problem throughout the world. Trawl fisheries indiscriminatingly catch everything in their path, including sea turtles.

The National Marine Fisheries Service recognized this problem and issued an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on February 15, 2007. The proposed rule would be the first step to get in the water requirements to protect turtles from trawl nets. But more than two years later the rule has yet to be released. In the meantime trawls continue to catch sea turtles.

Please ask Dr. Lubchenco - head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Organization (NOAA) - to rapidly complete a rule to reduce sea turtle takes in trawl fisheries.

www./community.oceana.org/act

Wireless local device power - Witricity

Eric Giler wants to untangle our wired lives with cable-free electric power. Here, he covers what this sci-fi tech offers, and demos MIT’s breakthrough version, WiTricity — a near-to-market invention that may soon recharge your cell phone, car, pacemaker.

The technology was developed by an MIT team led by theoretical physicist Marin Soljá (who won a MacArthur “genius”grant last year). Now, WiTricity is one of several startups developing tech to safely transmit power through the air — and potentially untether our electronic age.

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Solar Stage by Sustainable Waves

The unsung heroes of festival solar stages are the people at Sustainable Waves. When it comes to real world Read more

REVERB and Dave Matthews Band

REVERB has an on-going partnership between Dave Matthews Band, Reverb and IZSTYLE, the Bama Green Project encompasses all of the environmental efforts undertaken by the band while on the road, in the studio or at home. In addition to working with the band, the Bama Green Project is also dedicated to educating DMB fans around the world about how to take simple & positive environmental actions.

See the Video: http://www.reverbrock.org/dmb/
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Blue Man Group Can You Hear Stop global warming!

The Movie Crude winner of numerous awards

From acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger

(Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster)

comes the Sundance sensation and controversial legal thriller

everyone is talking about…

 

 

**Winner of Numerous International Environmental, Human Rights and Film Festival Awards**

 

“Rarely have such conflicts been examined with the depth and power of Joe Berlinger’s documentary Crude. These real characters and events play out on the screen like a sprawling legal thriller.”

-Stephen Holden, The New York Times

 

“A fascinating and important story. Crude does an extraordinary job of merging journalism and art.”

-Christiane Amanpour, CNN Chief International Correspondent

 

LA Release Date: September 18^th, 2009 at Landmark’s Nuart

Directed by: Joe Berlinger

Produced by: Joe Berlinger, Michael Bonfiglio, J.R. Deleon, Richard Stratton

 

 

Three years in the making, this cinéma-vérité feature from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Berlinger (Brother’s Keeper, Paradise Lost, Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet. An inside look at the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case, Crude is a real-life high stakes legal drama set against a backdrop of the environmental movement, global politics, celebrity activism, human rights advocacy, the media, multinational corporate power, and rapidly-disappearing indigenous cultures. Presenting a complex situation from multiple viewpoints, the film subverts the conventions of advocacy filmmaking as it examines a complicated situation from all angles while bringing an important story of environmental peril and human suffering into focus.

A First Run Features Release

 

OFFICIAL WEBSITE: www.crudethemovie.com/

BLUE WHALE Lifesize on the web

The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society have an extraordinary photograph online: a life size image of a Blue Read more

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