MCS news: Recognition, community, and a gas well

Posted on Oct 08, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, MCS, Media/Videos, News, Susie Collins

Who’s chirping about Multiple Chemical Sensitivity?

circle_logo_tmEva at NO FUN reports News From Japan: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity Recognized as a Physical Disease, with a mention about The Canary Report. Eva is the best networker in the MCS community I’ve ever seen. She’s gone global with her Naked Truth About MCS, now translated into nine different languages. She’s just introduced me to a chemical policy analyst in Japan, who found out about Eva from the post I did on her amazing nude photo shoot about MCS. Writes Eva:

Takeshi Yasuma is Chemicals Policy Analyst from Citizens Against Chemicals Pollution (CACP). He works on issues related to chemical pollution in humans and environment, including Chemical Policies, Toxic Chemicals, Toxic Wastes, Hazardous Nanotechnology, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity and Children’s Health. As I explained in the post I published yesterday, I’ve met him because of The Naked Truth about MCS that he translated into Japanese from The Canary Report. I’m sure that it’s only a beginning and we will keep in touch. Today is a great day because having contact with Japan is a great step for all of us.

The Design Observer Group reports on Community: The American Way of Living, where the authors explore how different types of communities are created. “Like-minded clustering has [...] produced communities for golf, fishing, and horseback riding, communities for gay retirees, multiple-chemical-sensitivity sufferers, hipsters and suburban Muslims. A road trip through North America would show the tremendous variety of like-minded communities out there.”

Star Telegram reports some Arlington residents say a nearby gas well is making them sick. DenBraber, who said she is on disability for severe chemical sensitivity, has complained to the university and Carrizo about the well since the first rig was erected in 2007. She said she has accumulated $14,000 in medical bills since then, and she blamed fumes coming from the site.

Judi at humor columnist Dave Berry’s Blog does a rif about people drenching themselves in perfume. A commenter says, “AMEN, judi! And thank you from all of us suffering from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (yes, it is a diagnosis). Mine came about from working in a tiny bathroom developing black and white film for years – chemical injury.”

The National Post reports on an Ottawa manufacturer of conventional mattresses, who bowed to customer insistence to produce mattresses for people with chemical sensitivities: How Jean Corriveau transformed his business from chemical-based to 100% organic. Hmmmm. I wonder if those mattresses are safe enough for peeps with MCS?

Related Articles:

  • Share/Bookmark

If you enjoyed this post, please read these related stories:

  1. In the news: EPA, students’ health, and green salons Flock to these reports! USA Today reports the EPA gives Congress a heads-up on toxic...
  2. Cases of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity in the news Denver Post: If formal recognition ever comes for Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, the national economic implications...
  3. In the news: Chemical regulation, pesticide ingredients, and healthy art JS Online reports the EPA director backs tougher regulation of chemicals. The summit where Lisa...

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

Tags: ,

8 Responses to “MCS news: Recognition, community, and a gas well”

  1. Sylvia

    08. Oct, 2009

    This is encouraging, indeed. Thanks to Eva for getting us in the news, thanks to Susie & The Canary Report, thanks to everybody who is doing their bit to spread the info.
    As summer approaches, with hot damp days, my own MCS is more of a problem. Well, I’m off to do what I can, in the here & now!
    Hugs to al, Syl***

    Reply to this comment

  2. linda

    08. Oct, 2009

    The OBASAN organic mattresses, wool comforters and pillows used to be great if ordered directly from them (the retailers tend to contaminate them with fragrances etc). I see they now use a different cotton covering material than they used to, which I haven’t tried so don’t know if it is as safe as the precious cotton they used, which was great.

    Reply to this comment

  3. Sandra DenBraber

    08. Oct, 2009

    The university thinks of me as “unsubstantiated claims” yet they refused to accept 3 doctors letters that were sent certified. The only thing green is the MONEY that they get while we get the pollution. They ignore any other problems my neighbors have.
    GREED is a terrible thing. Do not go and make a health and safety complaint in person to them either because they will file complaint with police stating we made terroristic threats. Police agreed we did not when they too experienced the horribly loud fracking noise. Their fumes set off my carbon monoxide detector several times and when I would open my front door it smelled like I was in the middle of an oil refinery due to cooling inversions that occur during the night.
    I can not afford an attorney and have been attacked for 2 years with notice that they will be going through the 2nd quarter of 2010.

    Reply to this comment

  4. linda

    08. Oct, 2009

    So sorry you are going through that Sandra. I have heard horrible stories of people being driven off their properties, from all the chemicals used in fracking. Nasty nasty business indeed. Hopefully there will be some kind of miracle for you. The medical costs associated with chemical poisonings should not be borne by those who have been and are being injured when companies are making a profit. Economic gains should not come at the cost of human and environmental health. That is too short-sighted and stupid.

    Reply to this comment

  5. Eva Caballé

    09. Oct, 2009

    Thank you so much for all your kind words Susie!
    Any of this would happen if you didn’t post my nude photos at The Canary Report. You are the real architect of “The Naked Truth about MCS” success!!

    I was able to contact to “Citizens Against Chemicals Pollution” in Tokyo because I speak a little Japanese.

    I’m really touched for your kind words.
    Big hugs,
    Eva

    Reply to this comment

  6. Susie Collins

    09. Oct, 2009

    Aloha Canaries–

    Sylvia, I had some trouble this summer with mold issues when it was hot and damp. Take care!

    Linda, Thanks for that review. I’d love to try their pillows.

    Sandra, thanks for stopping by with comment. I am so sorry that you are living through that. What is the matter with them? I don’t understand why this is legal. I don’t understand why the poisoning of people is legal. No matter how many stories I hear, I still get incredulous when I hear about things like this. That the cops were called because you protested, and yet the fracking frackers are allowed to poison people is just TOO MUCH.

    Eva, you speak Japanese, too?! You are just a bundle of surprises.

    Reply to this comment

  7. Eva Caballé

    09. Oct, 2009

    I speak just a little Japanese and it’s a really difficult language! I studied only 1 year when I was doing a Degree in Economics at University of Barcelona.
    Hugs!
    Eva

    Reply to this comment

  8. Sandra DenBraber

    09. Oct, 2009

    Thanks to the Chemically Sensitive for all the hard work we do trying to make our lives more liveable.
    We must keep up the fight because there are those who are too weak to fight and they need us.

    Reply to this comment

Leave a Reply