Lessons Learned - Looking back to go forward

Lessons Learned is a CHE-WA bulletin feature focusing on an historical event that provides an important lesson for ensuring a more sustainable and healthy environment. Produced by Steven G. Gilbert.

• #1 - 06/02/09 - Bhopal - 25 years latter

• #2 - 06/17/09 - Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

• #3 - 06/30/09 - Sir Austin Bradford Hill

• #4 - 07/14/09 - Leon Golberg - DES

• #5 - 07/28/09 - The Tragedy of Thalidomide and Frances Kelsey

• #6 - 08/11/09 - Ergot and Saint Anthony's Fire

• #7 - 08/25/09 - [America's First Bioethicist - Aldo Leopold]

• #8 - 09/23/09 - Silent Spring - Rachel Carson

• #9 - 10/06/09 - Alice Hamilton - Occupational medicine

• #10 - 10/21/09 - Pedanius Dioscorides - "Lead makes the mind give way."

• #11 - 11/03/09 - Thomas Midgley, Jr. - developed the tetra-ethyl lead for gasoline

• #12 - 11/18/09 - Bisphenol-A (BPA) - Endocrine Disruptor

• #13 - 12/25/09 - Bhopal - 25 years latter

• #14 - 12/29/09 - Percivall Pott - Cancer in Chimney Sweeps

• #15 - 01/12/10 - Precautionary Principle - Wingspread Statement

• #16 - 01/26/10 - Fluoride in Drinking Water

• #17 - 02/10/10 - Dietary Supplements - Whose In Charge

• #18 - 02/23/10 - Gerhard Schrader - "father of the nerve agents"

• #19 - 03/09/10 - Linus Carl Pauling - "Scientist for the Ages"

• #20 - 03/23/10 - Tobacco - "Doubt is their product"

• #21 - 04/07/10 - Teflon - Sticky when it comes to health

• #22 - 04/20/10 - April 21st - An interesting day in bioethics

• #23 - 05/04/10 - Mercury - the tragedy of Minamata disease

• #24 - 05/19/10 - Coca-Cola - Calories & Caffeine

• #25 - 05/31/10 - Environmental Justice or rather Injustice

• #26 - 06/15/10 - "the river caught fire" - Cuyahoga River

• #27 - 06/30/10 - Louis Pasteur - rabies vaccine July 6, 1885

• #28 - 07/11/10 - Caffeine - Stimulant - Money Maker

• #29 - 07/28/10 - What in the world were we thinking? (hiroshima and Nagasaki)

• #30 - 08/11/10 - Green Chemistry? Think of Our Children

• #31 - 08/23/10 - Van Rensselaer Potter II - global bioethics 1970

• #32 - 09/07/10 - Tacoma Smelter - Arsenic & Lead contamination started 1889

• #33 - 09/20/10 - Upton Sinclair - It's a Jungle of exploitation out there

• #34 - 10/05/10 - Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) - not protecting our children

• #35 - 10/19/10 - Football / head trauma - toxic to the brain

• #36 - 11/03/10 - Paracelsus - Does the Dose Really Make the Poison?

• #37 - 11/16/10 - LSD - small dose - big affect but our choice

• #38 - 11/30/10 - Clean air? - don't take it for granted

• #39 - 12/14/10 - Alcohol harms developing brains (totally preventable)

• #40 - 12/27/10 - What you don't know can be harmful - women and radium

• #41 - 01/10/10 - DDT - the chemical revolution stumbles into health and environmental issues

• #42 - 02/06/11 - Two edges of the same sword - chemical weapons to pesticides

• #43 - 02/22/11 - From Alice Hamilton to workplace to OSHA to children

• #44 - 03/08/11 - Triclosan - an unneeded pesticide in consumer products

• #45 - 03/21/11 - Connecting a pump handle to cholera in 1854

• #46 - 04/05/11 - Non-Stick and Non-Healthy, Iron is Best

• #47 - 04/19/11 - Iodine is essential but I-131 is a hazard to the thyroid

• #48 - 05/03/11 - Nicotine - A most addictive killer

• #49 - 05/18/11 - POPs - the chemicals that don't go away

• #50 - 05/30/11 - Global warming - trapped energy impacts health

• #51 - 06/14/11 - Food colors - hyping the mind?

• #52 - 06/28/11 - Nuclear weapons - toxic, wasteful, useless!

• #53 - 07/12/11 - Radiation - good, bad, and ugly - exploited & abused

• #54 - 07/26/11 - E-waste - a badly managed hazard

• #55 - 08/08/11 - Epigenetics - the genes but more

• #56 - 08/20/11 - Epiprecaution - doing no harm, is not doing your best

• #57 - 09/05/11 - Beyond risk assessment to precautionary assessment

• #58 - 09/20/11 - Oil dispersants - is there a right to know