<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">A lot of info is out there about CFLs untoward effects - not just the mercury when one breaks.<div><br></div><div>I did have one break when I could not breathe the day I had installed a 70% wool carpet in my living room on a very hot day</div><div>- I went to the ER at 3 am because of the OTHER 30% petrochemical fibers affecting my breathing, and I was co-founder of the SW OR</div><div>chapter of the NW EcoBuilding Guild and knew that up to 180 chemicals can be used in regular carpet. I leaned against the stand up lamp</div><div>and it fell and the bulb broke.</div><div><br></div><div>RE: CFLS - see <a href="http://MagdaHavas.com">MagdaHavas.com</a> (for her credentials <a href="http://MagdaHavas.org">MagdaHavas.org</a> - her initial publications in 1975 were on acid rain)</div><div>note <b>Prevention </b>magazine (a pub of Rodale Press) from 2009 cited on her site:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.magdahavas.com/2009/11/11/prevention-magazine-warns-public-about-compact-bulbs/">http://www.magdahavas.com/2009/11/11/prevention-magazine-warns-public-about-compact-bulbs/</a></div><div><br></div><div>The Dark Side of CFL Light Bulbs</div><div><a href="http://www.magdahavas.com/2009/10/06/the-dark-side-of-the-cfl/">http://www.magdahavas.com/2009/10/06/the-dark-side-of-the-cfl/</a></div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div>a 4 part series on CFLs </div><div><a href="http://www.magdahavas.com/2009/10/05/global-tv-dirty-electricity/">http://www.magdahavas.com/2009/10/05/global-tv-dirty-electricity/</a></div><div><br></div><div>and</div><div><div>Epilepsy 360 Degrees</div><div><a href="http://www.magdahavas.com/2009/10/07/epilepsy-360-degrees/">http://www.magdahavas.com/2009/10/07/epilepsy-360-degrees/</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>RE: fluorescent light tubes - for decades I have had a tendency to want to fall asleep in institutions of higher ed or other public buildings</div><div>where tube fluorescents have been used. Literally, I want to close my eyes and sleep which is why I now keep my laptop</div><div>with me so that I can type to stay awake. This may have to do with my abnormal brain waves! - having a triple Virgo</div><div>aspect and being born under the full harvest moon in Pisces probably has produced some degree of lunacy! </div><div><br></div><div>Check out <b>Dirty Electricity</b> re the Diseases of Civilization by Washington state M.D. Sam Milham <a href="http://SamMilham.com">SamMilham.com</a>, only $14, where he cites a building where</div><div>dirty electricity was causing breast cancer in MEN></div><div><br></div><div>I bought 10 copies of that and 15 copies of <b>PUBLIC HEALTH SOS: The Shadow Side of the Wireless Revolution by Magda Havas and Camilla Rees</b></div><div>- 110 responses by med professionals as a result of questions asked at the Commonwealth Club of CA - significant insights</div><div>into more _healthful_ cell phone use. I keep mine turned off almost all the time now and do not use my DECT phone at home as much either.</div><div><br></div><div>Oh well, live and learn --- or not --- and let the birds, bees, bats and butterflies continue to decline? (don't forget moths - as Tennessee Williams wrote in <b>Lament</b></div><div><b>for the Moths</b> - <i>_Enemies of the delicate everywhere have breathed a pestilent mist into the air._</i></div><div><br></div><div>Dr. Havas, I heard from Sam Milham, is doing a study on electro smog from cell phones and...bees.</div><div><br></div><div>I no longer use a CFL next to my head when I read. Years ago I used a TriMeter and found high readings from the earlier model CFL that had a built in ballast. </div><div>I had replaced it with a more modern CFL and now I use an incandescent. The man who made the <b>Deep Green</b> movie ($2 million 2 years in the making)</div><div>suggested at a lecture in Eugene that we go straight to LEDs - which have their own issues as the recent issue of <b>Environmental Building News</b> describes. </div><div><br></div><div>As a pal with a Ph.D. in public health remarked: perhaps we should listen to the author of the book on light suggesting that we return to living by the cycles of the sun for more healthful living!</div><div><br></div><div>With four billion wireless devices on the planet in use and seven billion people - we can only wait with suspended breath for the results of our collection actions...and inaction to eventually affect</div><div>all sentient beings. Frankly, I am more worried about their survival than ours.</div><div><br></div><div>As Havas remarks in small letters on a postage stamp size drawing of a cell phone tower on the back cover of <b>PUBLIC HEALTH SOS:</b></div><div><br></div><div><i>WHO CARES?</i></div><div><br></div><br><div>
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