[ShareTompkins] Fwd: Ecologist Sandra Steingraber, Ithaca College, Feb. 9, 7:30pm Park Hall Aud

[Shira Golding]

> From: "Michael Burns" <michael at fingerlakespermaculture.org>
> Date: January 29, 2010 2:44:37 PM EST
> To: fingerlakespermaculture at lists.mutualaid.org
> Subject: #flxpc Ecologist Sandra Steingraber, Ithaca College, Feb.  
> 9, 7:30pm Park Hall Aud
> Reply-To: michael at fingerlakespermaculture.org, FLX Permaculture  
> Network <fingerlakespermaculture at lists.mutualaid.org>
>
>
> Author of the acclaimed book Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at
> Cancer and the Environment, Sandra Steingraber will give a free public
> presentation at Ithaca  College on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 7:30pm in Park  
> Hall
> Auditorium.
>
> Steingraber will speak on "The Importance of Journalism
> and Independent Media in an Age of Ecological Crisis." An
> expert on the environmental causes of cancer and reproductive  
> problems,
> Steingraber is herself a cancer survivor. She’s been named a “Woman of
> the Year” by Ms. Magazine and “the new Rachel Carson” by the Sierra
> Club.A documentary film based on “Living Downstream” will be
> released this spring.
>
> She is a powerful speaker with a gripping personal story
> and deep insights about journalism. She is a columnist for the ad- 
> free Orion
> magazine.
>
> Steingraber’s book Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey to
> Motherhood is a memoir of her pregnancy and an examination of  
> environmental
> threats to fetal development. She was featured in Bill Moyer’s  
> report, “Kids
> & Chemicals: Are We Poisoning Our Children?”
>
> PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD.
>
> The lecture is sponsored by the  Park Center for Independent Media.
> www.ithaca.edu/indy
>

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