Theo Colborn is President of The Endocrine
Disruption Exchange, (TEDX, Inc) and Professor of Zoology at the
University of Florida. She was formerly Senior Scientist at the
World Wildlife Fund USA, heading their Toxics program. She is the
author of numerous scientific publications about compounds that
interfere with hormones and other chemical messengers that control
development in wildlife and humans. She edited Chemically Induced
Alterations in Sexual and Functional Development: The Wildlife/Human
Connection, published in 1992. The information from this volume
and numerous subsequent scientific publications was popularised
in her 1996 book, Our Stolen Future, co-authored with Dianne
Dumanoski and J. Peterson Myers now published in eighteen languages.
Dr. Colborn’s work has prompted the enactment of new laws
around the world and redirected the research of academicians, governments,
and the private sector.
www.ourstolenfuture.org
www.endocrinedisruption.com
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Sheila Watt-Cloutier was the Chair
of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference from 2002 to 2006. Nobel Peace
Prize nominee 2007. As the international political representative
for Inuit she led Arctic indigenous peoples in the negotiation of
the Stockholm Convention banning the manufacture and use of persistent
organic pollutants (POPs). She has received many awards for her
passionate environmental and human rights work, including; Champion
of the Earth Award, United Nations Environment Programme; Sophie
Prize, The Sophie Foundation, Norway; International Environmental
Leadership Award; Citation of Lifetime Achievement, Canadian Environment
Awards; UN Mahbub ul Haq Award for Outstanding Contributions to
Human Development.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Watt-Cloutier
Inuit Circumpolar Conference
http://inuitcircumpolar.com
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Janet Brewster
is mother of 3 who lives in Iqaluit and works for the Department
of Health. When we interviewed her, Janet was expecting her 3rd
child, she continued to eat country food throughout her pregnancy
and on December 21st 2005 Miles Napatsi Uviluq was born a healthy
7 pounds 11 ounces.
“It was amazing how many people brought me
country food while I was pregnant! I received more than I had in
years, fish, seal, caribou, maqtaq, dry fish, dry meat, berries,
it was great! I had someone dropping good food off at least every
other week! I’ve had Polar Bear as well
this year. I have to admit that there was a moment while I was eating
the Nanuq when I thought that maybe I shouldn’t, because I’m
breastfeeding, but it was so good, and I knew that all of those
vitamins would be converted to amazing milk for my son!
He had his first solid food last month. We gave
him a big chunk of frozen caribou to suck on while we used a cheese
grater on another piece to make it small enough for him to swallow.
He loved it. It was so natural for his body to accept it that we
didn’t see a change in his anaq (poop.) Quite a difference
from the couple of times that he had formula, yuck!!
I took part in a contaminants study at the end
of my pregnancy. I had blood drawn and hair samples taken. I haven’t
received the full results, but have been told that I was high in
some metals.” |
Tanya Tagaq Gillis
was born in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. She is internationally
renouned for her experimental approach to the traditional Inuit
form of throatsinging. Tagaq has collaborated with Bjork, Matthew
Barney and the Kronos Quartet and toured with some of the world’s
leading global artists. In 2005 she won 3 awards at the Canadian
Aboriginal Music Awards.
www.tanyatagaq.com |
