This call was moderated by Michael Lerner, PhD, President, Commonweal
Pete Myers, PhD, is founder, CEO, and chief scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, which produces the daily environmental health news source Above the Fold. He is also coauthor of Our Stolen Future (1996), which explores the threats posed by man-made chemical contaminants to fetal development and human health, and he is Senior Advisor to the United Nations Foundation (Washington, DC). From 1990-2002 Myers was director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation, a private foundation supporting efforts to protect the global environment and to prevent nuclear war. He received his PhD in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley.
This call is co-sponsored by the Collaborative on Health and the Environment and the New School at Commonweal.