[SustainableTompkins] Ithaca’s New Sustainable Home Store to Offer Conversation With Dr. Sandra Steingraber on the Chemical Hazards of Consumer Products

[Rena D. Grossman]

If you missed the elusive conversation about chemicals this week at Smart
Monkey, be sure to catch this conversation about chemical hazards in
consumer products.

Please circulate widely.

RDG

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Ithaca, NY, 10/23/2007 – Dr. Sandra Steingraber, ecologist, author, and
cancer survivor, will offer a talk, "From Lipstick to Sofa Cushions:  What
We Know about Chemical Hazards in Consumer Products and What We Can Do About
Them", at Home Green Home on Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 7pm.

Recent scandals involving Chinese-made toys have focused attention on the
regulatory system that monitors chemical hazards in U.S. commerce.  This
talk will describe the history of that system and the ways in which new
science is mounting a challenge to its efficacy. Changes in chemicals policy
in the European Union further spotlighted holes in the safety net here in
the United States. Of particular consideration will be the impact of
chemical mixtures from consumer products on reproductive health and
children's development, including pubertal timing in girls.

Dr. Sandra Steingraber is an internationally recognized expert on the
environmental links to cancer and reproductive health. Her highly acclaimed
book, *Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the
Environment*was the first to bring together data on toxic off gassing
with newly
released data from U.S. cancer registries. Sandra's most recent book, *Having
Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood*, explores the intimate ecology
of motherhood. Both a memoir of her own pregnancy and an investigation of
fetal toxicology, *Having Faith* reveals the alarming extent to which
environmental hazards now threaten each crucial stage of infant development.
Formerly on faculty at Cornell University, Sandra Steingraber is currently
Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.

Home Green Home is committed to ensuring that everyone can and should have a
beautiful home that is health-supporting, nature-connecting and
rejuvenating. To this end, the staff makes available home goods that are
mindfully and sustainably crafted. Home Green Home is located at 215 The
Commons, Ithaca, NY, 14850. For more information about this event and the
store, please call (607) 319-4159 or email *rena at homegreenhome.com*.