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NCC Conference: Mindful Living: Healthy People, Healthy Churches, Healthy PlanetThursday Plenary - “Theology and Environmental Health”
Friday Plenary: “The Science of Environmental Health and Toxics” This scientific discussion will allow you to learn more about the changing landscape of toxins in the environment. This lecture will help us better understand the state of the science today. Pete Myers is founder, CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, a not-for-profit organization that promotes public understanding of advances in scientific research on links between the environment and human health (www.EnvironmentalHealthNews.org). Myers holds a doctorate in the biological sciences from the UC Berkeley and a BA from Reed College. For a dozen years beginning in 1990, Myers served as Director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Along with co-authors Dr. Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski, Myers wrote “Our Stolen Future,” a book (1996) that explores the scientific basis of concern for how contamination threatens fetal development. He has published the website OurStolenFuture.org since that book was published, synthesizing hundreds of scientific articles about endocrine disruption to make them accessible to the media and the lay public. Myers is now actively involved in primary research on the impacts of endocrine disruption on human health. He is on the boards of the John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, the Environmental Grantmakers Association,the Jenifer Altman Foundation, the Earth Day Network and the Publication Education Center. Until its merger with Pew Charitable Trust in late 2007, he served as Board Chair of the National Environmental Trust. He has also served as Board President of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, an association of 40+ foundations supporting work on biodiversity, climate, energy and environmental health. Thursday Plenary - “Theology and Environmental Health” Panelists will share personal stories about toxins: how they were impacted by them and what they are doing to deal with the outcome. This casual hour-long session is intended to be informative, uplifting and inspiring. For more information about the conference, contact Cassandra Carmichael at cassandra@nccecojustice.org
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The Rev. Dr. Jim Antal has been an active environmentalist since the
first Earth Day in 1970. After graduating from Princeton, he pursued a
Ph.D. at Yale in the yet to be born field of environmental ethics.
Ordained in the United Church of Christ, he has taught, served as a
Chaplain and headed two national peace organizations. Antal then led congregations in Newton, Massachusetts and Shaker Heights, Ohio. In his current position as Minister and President of the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ, in 2007 he helped lead the Interfaith Climate Rescue Walk across Massachusetts. While serving as a subject of and a spokesman for the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow's national Body Burden project, he discovered that being a vegetarian since 1971 did not keep his body from absorbing an undue amount of chemicals. An avid cyclist, you may see him on the road wearing his "God is Still Speaking" jersey. Jim and his wife, Cindy, have two sons.
