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More on (traditional) stone carving and lung hazards HazArt

This article comes via NationTalk, native newswire, employment and tender service
Study probes link between soapstone and cancer – Waterloo Record
Forty-six-year-old Jimmy Cookie feels dizzy and has trouble breathing every time he carves into a slab of soapstone.
Now, University of Manitoba researchers are looking at whether Cookie’s lung problems could be linked with the traditional [...]

Antiques as HazArt (Mercury)

Mercury used to be part of the preservation technique in museums, as a bug killer. This makes analyzing museum specimens for environmental change difficult (pre- and post-industrial; regional ecological change in water, temperature, etc over time using stable nuclides; etc.) There was an interesting study on Berlin museum specimens (feathers) for mercury pollution in the [...]

Other examples for use in HazArt mitigation

I still don’t have access to my deep storage of projects (wouldn’t your community like its very own “overqualified” thinker?) but there are other sources of information to understand and protect one’s self and environment. I will point to these sources here.
Pottery (shaping and firing) has already been mentioned here
| Native Crafts Health Effects [...]

Native Crafts Health Effects Project

As part of the HazArt project | Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople Project (HazArt) | we tested the ambient air quality during a firing of black-on-black (reduced) pottery. This field project was a collaboration of Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, Inc., Sandia National Laboratory, and Tewa Women United.
The project [...]

regional nuclear war climate change?

In 1985 I put together a panel of scientific experts to identify what the human effects of a nuclear weapons exchange might mean (as far as I know, still the only such report) and then assisted in the discussion in New Zealand.

The Anthropology of Human Survival -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/01/12/ the-anthropology-of-human-survival/

New Zealand after Nuclear War -
http://13c4.wordpress.com/2006/02/20/ new-zealand-after-nuclear-war/

I moved [...]

Interim rural solid waste management IV

Suggested Steps that Might Be Taken Immediately, with Currently Available Resources, to Improve Solid Waste Management and to Alleviate Problems at the Dump
These suggestions for short-term initiatives are something new we’re trying out, in response to your suggestions and those of other Villages. If they don’t work or if you all come up with improvements, [...]

science superstition religion 1992

December 2, 1992
Larry Calloway, Albuquerque Journal (http://www.larrycalloway.com/biography.html)
Dear Mr. Calloway:
As you pointed out in your column yesterday, there are federal (as well as state and tribal) environmental laws against pothunting **. These secular sanctions need to be publicized better.
It is incorrect, however, to state as you did, that the supernatural sanctions [...]

Inhalation Anthrax Associated with Dried Animal Hides

“Inhalation Anthrax Associated with Dried Animal Hides — Pennsylvania and New York City, 2006″
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/
Interviews were conducted with the patient, his family, and his colleagues. The patient made traditional African drums by using hard-dried animal hides (e.g., air-dried until brittle enough to crack) obtained in NYC from importers who primarily sold African goat and cow hides. [...]

The Anthropology of Human Survival

Originally (1985) the discussion focussed on Nuclear Winter. But the basics of what it means to be human are relevant to tsunamis, earthquakes, and hurricanes among other tragedies. The late 20th century as in the late 14th century (and in the 20 centuries before then) saw entire communities of people massacred by their neighbors. [...]

Survey of Environment, Safety, and Health Concerns of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople

Survey of Environment, Safety, and Health Concerns of Traditional Indian Artisans and Craftspeople (Summer 1993)
The Environmental Office of Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council and the Northern Pueblos Institute of Northern New Mexico Community College are interested in knowing if artists and craftsmen are concerned about whether there are health, safety, or environmental risks to [...]

Lung Protection Pamphlet Released

[please note contact info is out of date] Press Release For More Information, Call:

Karen Young, Coordinator, Northern Pueblos Institute, Northern New Mexico Community College, 505-747-2194
M. Pamela Bumsted, Ph.D., Assoc. Director, Environmental Office, Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Council, 505-852-4265

For Release
October 4, 1994 [...]