Tag Archives: Sandra Steingraber
How many times do my children protect me from harm? How does their innocence move me to seek innocence? Their natural desire to explore, learn, grow and create often protects me from losing context.
By Nicole
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February 24th, 2008
Do we even know how much we've lost, how poisoned we are, how far away we've been driven from the land? By connecting the science of toxic materials with our human knowledge of childbirth in Having Faith, Steingraber gives us new knowledge; what would it mean for us to inhabit it?
Posted in Having Faith, Science & Technology | Also tagged Coal, Community of Practice, Environment, Fish, Food, Having Faith, Health, Lead, Mercury, Polllution, Precautionary Principle, Pregnancy, Sacrifice, Traditional Knowledge, Wisconsin
By Nicole
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February 10th, 2008
During my first pregnancy, I lived on a truck route. My pregnancy manual, the ubiquitous and sometimes disturbing What to Expect When You’re Expecting, said that unless I was living in a bus terminal or a tollbooth, “breathing in the big city…isn’t as risky as you might think…. Even in the 1960s, when pollution was [...]
Posted in Having Faith, Mind & Society, Science & Technology | Also tagged Amniocentesis, Birth Defects, Chicago, Environment, Food, Having Faith, Parenting, Pregnancy, Scleroderma, Water
By Nicole
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February 3rd, 2008
So how can I feel hopeful? I am hopeful because there are those who strive to know, who don't give up in the face of adversity, but continue to ask questions and take hold of lessons learned in history in order to take action and move forward. I am hopeful because the power of one person may have a decisive impact, and because more than ever before in history, we are able to link these individual voices together, and really hear what they have to say, if only we will listen.
Posted in Having Faith, Science & Technology | Also tagged Activism, Environment, Having Faith, History, Japan, Judith Helfand, Mercury, Minamata, Reading Circles, Rubella
By Nicole
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January 27th, 2008
I must admit that I think it a bit ironic that the maiden book discussion here at RCB is about a journey to birth. This has been a dream of my husband’s for a while, but I never thought I would be leading the first discussion! I first began reading Having Faith: An Ecologist’s Journey [...]
Perhaps the best thing about the web, and the blogosphere in particular, is that it enables you to connect with like-minded people you might never meet otherwise. –Kriss M. at Circle M Farm On January 27th, 2008, Reading Circle Books will host its first group! In her wonderful invitation to our first Reading Circle, Kriss [...]
Kriss over at Circle M Farm suggested Having Faith after reading author Sandra Steingraber’s earlier book, Living Downstream. We’ll be reading it together beginning in January, 2008, with Nicole Five Pennies as our host. So go look up Kris’ wonderful invitation to read together, get your copy (the little blue box by the title will [...]
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