John Peterson Myers
John Peterson Myers
Environmental Health Sciences
421 Park Street, Suite 4
Charlottesville
Virginia
22902
434-220-0348
jpmyers@ehsic.org
Latest content created by this user
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| Story on phytoestrogen cancer risk misses important point. | Dec 31, 2009 |
| Reporting or research lacking on aircraft noise | Dec 17, 2009 |
| Strange omission in bottle assessment | Apr 20, 2009 |
| NPR commentator ignores climate-disease links. | Apr 18, 2009 |
| NPR on precautionary principle. | Apr 15, 2009 |
| Synopsis | |
| FDA draft decision on BPA deeply flawed | Oct 30, 2008 |
| Dioxin tied to metabolic syndrome in Japan. | Oct 12, 2008 |
John Peterson Myers is founder, CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences. Pete 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, and the Jenifer Altman Foundation. 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.
 | When the temperature is above 50 F and it's not raining, Myers regularly publishes EnvironmentalHealthNews.org and DailyClimate.org from a platform in the woods near his house. Turkeys, foxes, turtles, deer and other creatures meander by. In spring the trees above are full of migrating warblers. Myers twitters via account name petemyers and his facebook account is here. Listen to an interview with Myers on YouTube. It turns out there is really good news in the flood of science that is revealing strong links between environmental exposures and human health. |
Myers is also an accomplished photographer, with two exhibits on display in March 2008, in Brandon, VT and Charlottesville, VA.
Here are recent examples:
| Sanderling roosting in blowing sand, Point Reyes CA, 4 September 2009 |
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| Swallows, Stegge, Denmark, 18 May 2009 | Great Crested Grebe, Copenhagen, 20 May 2009 | |
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| Eastern Phoebe, White Hall, VA, 1 March 2009 | Anna's Hummingbird, San Francisco, CA, 3 March 2009 | |
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