Trained as a biochemist,
Kate Davies has been
working in environmental
quality and sustainability
since the 1980s, when
she was manager of the
Environmental Protection
Office in Toronto. In 2002,
she joined Antioch University
Seattle, where she is a core faculty member
with the Center for Creative Change.
The following is an excerpt from her book
“The Rise of the U.S. Environmental Health
Movement, published in March 2013 by
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. The book
chronicles the strategies and successes of
the movement over its 35-year history.
Lorraine Mangione,
administrator/AUNE
and Donna H. DiCello,
PsyD ’96/AUNE
Kate Maruyama,
MFA ’09/AULA
“Daughters,
Dads, and the
Path Through
Grief: Tales From
Italian America”
In this novel, Greta, an intrusive,
sinister doula, has wormed her
way into the lives of new parents
Michael and Sarah. Every time
Michael leaves Harrowgate, he
returns to find his beloved wife
and baby altered. He feels his
family slipping away and, as a
malevolent force begins to creep
in, Michael does what any new
father would do – he fights to
keep his family together.
“Harrowgate”
47North, 2013
Impact Publishers, 2013
Stories from 50 women,
strategically woven throughout
the book, offer glimpses into the
many aspects of these fatherdaughter relationships that are
warm and nurturing, sometimes
complicated and conflicted, and
always strong and enduring.
John B. Cochran, MA ’98/AUNE
“Mrs. Wellingcamp
and Other Poems”
Self-published, 2013
Poems about typical and atypical life
experiences, family, and love.
Jacqui Morton, MFA ’10/AULA
“Turning Cozy Dark”
Learn more at
environmentalhealthmovement.org
Finishing Line Press, 2013
This collection of poems was inspired by the experiences that
motherhood brings, physical and emotional, in birth and in
loss. It was a semifinalist in the 2012 New Women’s Voices
Chapbook Competition.
In 1978, a young stay-at-home mom
named Lois Gibbs first raised the alarm
about the health effects of toxic chemicals
leaking from an abandoned waste site
in Love Canal, New York. Gibbs and her
neighbors faced the scary realization that
their children were seriously ill just because
of where they lived. They fought the
government and won. The disaster at Love
Canal marks the birth of the environmental
health movement. Although Rachel Carson’s
1962 book “Silent Spring” alerted the public
to the health effects of toxics some sixteen
years earlier, it wasn’t until 1978 that local
activists began to express their concerns
and organize collective action. From these
humble beginnings, environmental health
has grown into the national and international
movement it is today.
In giving birth to the environmental
health movement, Lois Gibbs and other
local activists took advantage of the
shortcomings of the environmental
movement and created a new social
movement based on community concerns.
Feeling ignored by national environmental
groups, their professional advocacy
approach and their focus on federal
legislation, citizen activists began to speak
up for themselves. In particular, they laid
claim to the urban environmental health
issues ignored by environmentalists.
Following in the footsteps of the social
reformers of the Industrial Revolution,
they took action to improve environmental
conditions in America’s towns and cities…
- WF
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