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 Later

• #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 Tetra-ethyl Lead for Gasoline

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

• #13 - 12/25/09 - Bhopal - 25 Years Later

• #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 - Who's 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 and Lead Contamination Started in 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 Workplaces 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 and 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?