Mark O'Briens Environmental health Articles

Bali reef regeneration project

Whilst in Bali in March 11 I visited a friend up in Pemuturan which is on the north western corner of bali, about a three hour drive from Denpasar. My friend, Rani, has been involved in this project read more...

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Blowin in the Wind: A film review

Blowin’ in the Wind, by award winning filmmaker David Bradbury and co-producer Peter Scott is a wake-up film that exposes the genocidal catastrophe of the use of depleted uranium in weapons. Fro read more...

Cancun and the case for a carbon tax

Stories are eminating from the 2010 Cancun talks that a carbon tax is being talked about seriously. For a change. One of the major flaws with Kyoto accord was that it pegged nations’ allowed gre read more...

Chemicals destroying male fertility

According to a report released on 2009 by the UK non profit CHEM Trust hormone disrupting chemicals that are found in everyday consumer products are destroying male reproductive health. An ever in read more...

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Depleted Uranium: a legacy of treason

treason n 1 betrayal of one's sovereign or country. 2 any treachery or betrayal. treasonable adj treasonous adj In recent years I have become aware of the issue of depleted uranium (DU) and its u read more...

Gaslands, the film

Gaslands is an American film about the the poisoning of water systems that occurs with the drilling process for natural gas. Some 900 chemicals, some proprietary (meaning the composition of chemical read more...

Nanoparticles - good guys or bad guys?

Approximately 800 products are made with nanomaterials, ranging from stain resistant clothing, energy supplements, sunscreen, odour eating socks and many other cutting edge products, yet there has b read more...

What the frack??

Some months ago I watched a film called Gaslands. This was about the proliferation in the US of coal seam gas wells and its impacts on the health of the environment and that of the people who live n read more...

Wind power cheap?

Is renewable energy as expensive as we are told? There was an interesting chart in the Sydney Morning Herald, April 2/10 (unfortunately not on the SMH website), that showed all the wind farms so far read more...