EMAIL DISCUSSION LISTS
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- 1. Ecology House. An apartment building for low-income chemically sensitive
persons. The report covers funding, site selection, an evaluation of building
materials, and more.
- http://www.ecologyhouse.org/
- 2. Alpha Omega Christian Communities for the Chemically Injured.
- http://members.truepath.com/aocommunities
- 3. Safer housing for the chemically sensitive to be built in KY.
- http://www-members.adept.net/~mcsinfo/saferhous.htm
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- 1. Rating Guide to Environmentally Healthy Metro Areas. A book by Robert
S. Weinhold that rates all 317 US metro areas in 10 categories of air,
water, surface and subsurface pollutants. Ordering info, table of contents,
Chapter 1.
- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rweinhold/
- 2. Living with MCS in the San Juan Islands, Washington. One person's
experience in a liveable place.
- http://www.immuneweb.org/articles/sanjuanwa.html
- 3. Chemical Scorecard Polluter Locator. Type in the zipcode to find
out what pollutants are being released in an area and who is responsible.
- http://www.scorecard.org
- 4. Global Environmental Risk Map
- http://www.mapcruzin.com/global_toxmaps.htm
- 5. Healthy Housing Coalition. Area information for New Mexico and Arizona,
also safe housing tips and other information.
- http://www.herc.org/hhc
- 6. Shared Housing Exchange of the Chemical Injury Information Network.
General information on finding safer housing, joining the Shared Housing
Exchange (SHoE), and a US pollution map.
- http://ciin.org/housing.htm
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- 1. Taylor Design Associates. Renovates and sells trailers and vans .
- http://www.healthy-homes.com
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- 1. The Healthy House Institute. John Bower is a builder of healthy homes
and has written extensively about the subject. His wife Lynn Bower is
chemically sensitive and has also written an excellent book. The site
includes full-text articles by the Bowers, a list of books and videos,
upcoming projects, links to building-related sites, and updated lists
of building suppliers.
- http://www.hhinst.com
- 2. Building a healthy home--professional advice, good links and a recommended
reading list.
- http://www.immuneweb.org/articles/healthyhome.html
- 3. Building Materials for the Chemically Sensitive. Lists suppliers,
contractors, and suggested reading.
- http://www.lassentech.com/eibuld.html
- 4. CMHC publicaton: Building materials for the chemically sensitive.
Info about a 238-page manual available from the Canada Mortgage and Housing
Corporation.
- http://www.greendesign.net/bcnews/julaug96/canada.htm
- 5. Housing the canary. Abstract of a masters degree project from the
University of Calgary that explores community design and multifamily dwellings
for the environmentally sensitive.
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/EV/designresearch/mdp_abstracts/arch/arch96_santini.html
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- 1. All About the Clean House that We Built. Describes the location,
floor plan and materials of the Kiessig's new home in Los Altos, CA.
- http://www.kiessig.com
- 2. Healthy homes from a CFS and MCS perspective--one person's experience
with remodeling her home.
- http://www.immuneweb.org/articles/building.html
- 3. THE DISPOSSESSED: Living With Multiple Chemical Sensitivities.. A
book by Rhonda Zwillinger. Some of the portraits of people dispossessed
by MCS include descriptions of how they built safer homes. Ordering info,
sample photos, artist's statement, and many links on pesticides and endocrine
disrupters.
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http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/hecweb/links/Dispossessed
- For more selections from The Dispossessed see also http://emagazine.com/september-october_1998/0998feat2.html
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- 1. Greenbuilder's Sustainable Sources. Contains information on rammed
earth and cob houses, earth materials information, a sustainable sources
search and much more.
- http://www.greenbuilder.com
- 2. Environmental Building News. Includes a green building discussion
which is indexed by topic, a sustainalbe building checklist, and more.
- http://www.BuildingGreen.com
- 3. Affordable by Design. Building an eco-home on a tight budget is discussed
in this article from E Magazine .
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http://www.emagazine.com/july-august_1997/0797feat1.html
- 4. Healthy Buildings. Site of the Institute for Research in Construction,
it contains a bibliography that includes Canadian, European and US publications.
- http://www.cisti.nrc.ca/irc/library/pf17.html
- 5. Everyday Exposures to Toxic Pollutants. Article about common contaminants
in the home by Wayne R. Ott and John W. Roberts, published in Scientific
American, February 1998.
- http://www.sciam.com/1998/0298issue/0298ott.html
- 6. Nirvana Safe Haven. Air and water purifiers, home furnishings and
supplies for the chemically sensitive.
- http://www.nontoxic.com
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- 1. The Safer Travel Directory.
- http://mcstravel.resourcez.com
- 2. The Natural Place. Environmentally friendly hotel apartments in Deerfield
Beach, FL.
- http://www.thenaturalplace.com
- 3. Las Nubes, a resort near Santa Fe, NM that describes itself as a
"haven for the chemically sensitive"
- http://www.ecoretreat.com
- 4. Pride and Joy Environmental Resort, South Melbourne Beach, FL
- http://www.pridejoyresort.com/index.html
- 5. Travel tips for the chemically sensitive
- http://wwws.us.ohio-state.edu/~steen/allergy/travel.html
- 6. Eco-House, a beach resort at Vero Beach, FL
- http://www.chem-tox.com/ecohouse/index.htm
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- 1. Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
- http://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca
- 2. Habitat for Humanity. Includes a locator for Habitat affiliates by
state.
- http://www.habitat.org
- 3. Intentional Communities Directory. A directory of cohousing, ecovillages
and coops that briefly discusses environmental illness.
- http://www.ic.org/
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- 1. The Southern Oregon Fair Housing Project. Contains information on
local, state and federal housing anti-discrimination laws, as well as
a HUD Online Housing Discrimination Complaint Form.
- http://www.efn.org/~fairhous/
- 2. Alpha One, a Center for Independent Living. Has an online brochure
on housing considerations for the disabled that includes environmental
illness; also info on housing rights of the disabled.
- http://www.alpha-one.org/housing.htm
- http://www.alpha-one.org/rights.htm
- 3. National Fair Housing Advocate Online. Contains a newsletter, case
databases, discussion forum, and a list of resources in every state.
- http://www.fairhousing.com
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- 1. Children's Environmental Health Network
- http://www.cehn.org/cehn/resourceguide/safehousing.html
- 2. Article: Coastside is clean slate for woman, chemical injury hinders
search for housing. From Half Moon Bay Review, Nov 6, 1996.
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http://www.montara.com/HMBReview/Features/96.11.06.feat.chemical
- 3. Electrical Hypersensitivity.
- http://www.idcnet.com/~jschultz/es.htm
- 4. Environmental Justice Information Page.
- http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrajzer/nre/index.html
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- MCSRelief.com
Chemical Injury Information Network. The newsletter Our Toxic Times, printed
monthly, contains ads for safer housing.
http://ciin.org
- Chemical Sensitivity Disorders Association (CSDA)
- http://www.chemsense.com
- Colorado Health Net
- http://www.coloradohealthnet.org
- Environmental Health Center-Dallas
- http://www.cathey.com/ehcd.html
- Environmental Health Network
- http://users.lanminds.com/~wilworks/ehnindex.htm
- Environmental Illness Links
- http://www-hsl.mcmaster.ca/tomflem/envir.html
- Fragranced Products Information Network
- http://www.ameliaww.com/fpin/fpin.htm
- Health and Environment Resource Center. Lots of info and links about MCS.
The Newsstand had copies of articles about MCS.
- http://www.herc.org
- http://www.herc.org/news/home.htm
- Human Ecology Action League. The Human Ecologist, printed quarterly, contains
ads for safer housing.
- http://members.aol.com/HEALNatnl/
- IMMUNE (Cyndi Norman) Some housing ads can be found in the classified
section on this site.
- http://www.immuneweb.org
- MCS/EI Jacki Barineau's home page.
- http://www.ourlittleplace.com/mcs.html
- MCS Homepage
- http://www.nettally.com/prusty/mcs.htm
- MCS International Directory
- http://www.w3-mediator.de/mcs/index.htm
- MCS Louisville. Melva Gail Smith's home pages
- http://www-members.adept.net/~mcsinfo/
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http://members.tripod.com/~chemicalsensitivity/chemicalsensitivityindex.html
- MCS Referral and Resources
- http://www.mcsrr.org
- MCSurvivors Updated site.
- http://www.MCSurvivors.com
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivities Primer
- http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/4415/index.html
- Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Forum
- http://www.dejanews.com/~mcs/j.xp?j=mcs
- National Coalition for the Chemically Injured
- http://www.ncchem.com/ncci.htm
- North Carolina Chemical Injury Network
- http://www.ncchem.com
- Nova Scotia's Environmental Illness Online Newsletter
- http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/4357
- Pesticide Action Network North America
- http://www.igc.org/panna/index.html
- Resources for the Chemically Sensitive or Environmentally Ill
- http://www.snowcrest.net/lassen/mcsei.html
- Right-to-Know Network
- http://www.rtk.net