Toxic Bust
November 23, 2008 by Ellen Ewart
Filed under Green Living
One of the benefits of SusCamp ’08 was “meeting” lots of like-minded people (I use the term meeting loosely, since most of the contacts I made were via twitter, facebook, and various blogs, rather than face-to-face chats). Through one such connection, I scored a ticket to attend Toxic Bust, a film taking part in the world’s first breast cancer film festival Breast Fest.
You may wonder why this breast cancer film is relevant to Daily Tomorrow, well here’s your answer, straight from the makers of Toxic Bust. “The film raises questions about the long term health costs associated with early childhood chemical exposure revealing the relationship between degradation of our bodies and of our environment, and highlights the disproportionate toxic burden carried by low-income communities and workers.”
It was really hard for me to not look at this from a cancer perspective and to instead focus more heavily on the environmental issues. However, it did remind me how intricately linked all of these issues are.
There was a panel discussion following the film, moderated by Rick Smith (Executive Director, Environmental Defence) and included Gill Deacon (Author, Green for Life), and Amanda Montgomery (Owner, Simply, Buyer for Grassroots). You can look forward to a future post where I will share details of the film as well as lessons on detoxifying your life.
For now, here is the movie trailer:
This is fabulous! Very glad to see you writing this blog. The topic is very important.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Toxic Bust. Please keep writing summaries and sharing thoughts on such enviro-movies and other such resources.
Have you read David Suzuki’s new book, Green Guide? If so, I would love to hear your thoughts?
I would also most appreciate if you shared with us an ongoing list of fun resources and tips for green living.
Looking forward…
Good information. The more chemicals we can get out of our lives the better.
Ellen, there’s a huge benefit to connecting with people even though so many of us are communicating regularly online. I’m glad you were able to attend Toxic Bust and share your thoughts. I agree a lot there seems to be a lot of information linking certain cancers to environmental causes. Research seems to be going back and forth on this. Sometimes I’m not sure what to believe.