Will 'Our Stolen Future' be another 'Silent Spring?'

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The new book 'Our Stolen Future' by scientists Theo Colborn and John Peterson Myers with science journalist Dianne Dumanoski calls for swift action on synthetic organic chemicals and their potency to influence endocrine systems. The book cites numerous studies that reveal reproductive abnormalities and cancers in wildlife and humans and indicate disabilities in learning, behavioral and immune systems. The authors contend that the culprit are the 50 synthetic chemical compounds which can mimic natural hormones and which the body confuses with endogenous hormones.

Chemicals, Criticism and interpretation, Bibliography, Synthetic products, Our Stolen Future (Nonfiction work), Silent Spring (Book)

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Children's book publisher goes "chlorine free."(Harcourt Brace and Co.)

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Harcourt Brace and Co., which publishes more than 2 mil copies of children's books annually, has turned to publishing of books using totally chlorine free (TCF) paper. The shift to the use of TCF paper, an alternative to publishing using recycled paper, resulted from efforts of author Lynne Cherry and the Center for Children's Environmental Literature who heeded an increasingly popular demand for the protection of trees from the books' readers, the children.

Environmental Management, Book publishing, Book Publishers, Juvenile Books, Authors, Writers, Environmental policy, Books, Children's books, Cherry, Lynne, Harcourt Brace and Co., HBJ

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