Books
Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumers Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves by B. Blake Levitt,Harvest Books / Harcourt Brace & Company. © 1995

If our everyday existence is impossible to imagine without electricity and communications, then it is also impossible to imagine without electromagnetic fields. But recent legal judgments support what some environmental activists have long said: those ubiquitous fields can pose a serious challenge to our health and environment as well as to housing values and community development plans. This eye-opening book – the most comprehensive resource available to consumers today – explains why and where electromagnetic fields (EMF’s) occur, which illnesses may have a strong connection to them, and why our doctors’ knowledge is limited.

In a frank, balanced, and accessible manner, science writer B. Blake Levitt, a former feature writer for The New York Times, sorts through the complex social and medical issues. From high-tension lines to radio towers, and consumer products to government regulations, she explores our ever-increasing electromagnetic environment and shows us what we can do to live more safely within it. This is essential reading for community planners and all those concerned with personal and family health and well being.

As significant for Americans in the 21st Century as Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was in the 1960’s.

Proceedings of the "Cell Towers Forum" State of the Science/State of the Law - Cell Towers: Wireless Convenience of Environmental Hazard? edited by B. Blake Levitt. E-mail orders can be sent to: info@emrpolicy.org

Electromagnetic Environments and Health in Buildings, edited by Derek Clements-Croome, University of Reading, UK. Taylor & Francis Books. May 2003. Proceedings book of the International Conference on Electromagnetic Environments and Health in Buildings held in London on May 16-17, 2002.

Cellular Telephone Russian Roulette:
A Historical and Scientific Perspective
by Robert C. Kane, Vantage Press
To order, call the publisher's 800 number given on the flyer.

• A review of Dr. Kane's book

Magnetobiology: Underlying Physical Problems by Vladimir N. Binhi, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Academic Press, March 2002. List Price 99.95 £ For a description and to order on line see Elsevier International.

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Bad Reception: The Wireless Revolution in San Francisco
This piece is Doug Loranger's new video about San Francisco's fight with the cell phone industry and its rapidly proliferating but largely unnoticed antennas erected in urban areas. VHS copies of Bad Reception may be purchased directly from the producer for $20 per tape. Make a check or money order payable to:

Doug Loranger
1835 Broderick Street
San Francisco, CA 94115

Please include your mailing address and allow two weeks for delivery. For more information e-mail.

• This review of the new one-hour documentary was written by Mark Scaramella and appeared in the March 5, 2003 edition of the Anderson Valley Advertiser, a weekly newspaper published in Northern California.

Broadcast Blues
Responding to a mandate from the Federal Communications Commission to begin broadcasting digital television signals by the fall of 1999, the affiliates of ABC, CBS, NBC and PBS plan to put up a new HDTV tower on residential Lookout Mountain, 2000 feet above the city of Denver, Colorado. Residents on Lookout Mountain strongly protest the new tower claiming there is evidence that the electromagnetic radiation (EMR) levels on Lookout Mountain are too high and pose a health threat. Lookout Mountain already hosts 18 towers and more than 450 transmission devices, making it the most complex electromagnetic environment of any residential area in the United States. "No problem," says the FCC, "the standards are acceptable and the broadcasters are in compliance."

Across the country, broadcasters are meeting resistance to their proposed new HDTV transmitters from citizens concerned about the health hazards of excessive EMR. How much is enough? How much is too much? At one time, we asked the same questions about asbestos, radon and tobacco.

Independent filmmaker and Emmy award winner, Len Aitken, chronicled the Lookout Mountain conflict in this one-hour documentary film, Broadcast Blues. VHS $32.00

Len Aitken Productions 1053 Red Moon Rd. Golden CO 80401 (303) 526-1896 e-mail order

Electromagnetic Radiation: A Scientific Overview
By Dr. Theodore Litovitz, physicist, Catholic University of America. (VHS/PAL 25 min.) To order.

Public Exposure: DNA, Democracy and the Wireless Revolution
Co-produced by Libby Kelley, CWTI and EON International, first place award at the Santa Cruz Earth Vision Film Festival, 2001. VHS/PAL (58 min.). To order.

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