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Environment Links
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The Institute for Ecological Health facilitates harmony between human
communities and their natural ecosystems. We link the conservation of
rural landscapes and a viable agricultural economy to the conservation
and enhancement of wildlife habitat, native biodiversity and ecological
functions.
- Environmental News from World News.
reversing the
tide on global warming SeaChange is a project of SeaChange: Reversing the Tide, a
performance piece that uses science and poetry to urge us all to make
sustainable living our primary goal. A work by Lisa Harrow
and Roger Payne
Redshift Productions fosters the vision that everyone has a stake in
the scientific endeavor. Using the arts as a means of communication,
Redshift provides opportunities for scientists to share their work, and
for the public to explore the universe through the unique perspective
of science.
Energy
- Lighting
courses include lighting, architecture etc.
The Role of Lighting in a
Wellness-Centered Environment, Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Advanced
CPTED - Three-day training, Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Advanced
Lighting Technology, Tuesday, June 19, 2007
English Heritage, building. English Heritage seeks to ensure that any
works to a historic building do not disturb or destroy historic fabric.
In deciding how best to illuminate a building, the principles of
minimum intervention and reversibility should be adopted whenever and
wherever possible.
Photobiology
and Pathology - Links relating to Light at Night, melatonin,
circadian rhythm, etc. on human health.
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, International
Symposium Light, Endocrine Systems and Cancer held May 2-3, 2002
Light. pollution at night reduces melatonin synthesis and secretion and
hence .... suppression and cancer progression” results were presented
on the ...
M.D. Maldonado, R. J.
Reiter and others
Melatonin reduces the toxicity... Finally, melatonin crosses the
blood–brain barrier and reduces
contusion volume and stabilizes cellular membranes preventing vasospasm
and apoptosis of endothelial cells that occurs as a result of CCT.
Journal of Pineal Research, Volume 42 Issue 1 Page 1-11, January 2007
, Stephen Y. W. Shiu
The rational use of melatonin in prostate cancer prevention,
stabilization of clinically localized favourable-risk prostate cancer
and palliative treatment of advanced or metastatic tumour is discussed
within the context of the molecular pathogenesis of the disease.
Journal of Pineal Research, Volume 43 Issue 1 Page 1-9, August
2007
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Chun W. Tam, Chi W. Mo, Kwok-Ming Yao, Stephen Y. W. Shiu
"Taken together with the known molecular mechanisms of prostate cancer
progression and transition to androgen independence, our data provide
strong support for melatonin to be a promising small-molecule useful
for prostate cancer primary prevention and secondary prevention of the
development and progression of hormone refractoriness."
Journal of Pineal Research, Volume 42 Issue 2 Page 191-202, March
2007