CO-CURE:ACT,NOT:Another Inconvenient Truth - CFLs and CFS, FMS, Lyme, Migraines

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EcoLEDs use far less electricity than CFLs, have no Mercury, and are

supposedly much safer for human health. The big drawback is cost.

They are much more expensive than I can afford.

 

* Regular light bulbs are intentionally designed to burn out so that

customers are forced to keep buying new ones. They contribute to

substantial landfill problems.

 

* Compact fluorescent lights contain toxic mercury which leaks into

local environment, poisoning rivers, streams, oceans and croplands.

 

* EcoLED lights contain NO mercury and last 50,000 hours. Using LED

lights greatly reduces landfill and the load on the environment.

 

http://www.ecoleds.com/Index.html

 

Alobar

 

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:18 AM, <bestsurprise2002 wrote:

>    Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:30:30  -0400

>     " uncmom59 [via Co-Cure Moderators

> <co-cure-mod] "  <auntiem6

> ACT,NOT:Another Inconvenient Truth - CFLs  and CFS, FMS, Lyme,

> Migraines

>

> I am forwarding information on the new disability-related CFL  fluorescent

> lighting web site: _http://www.cflimpact.com/_ (http://www.cflimpact.com/) .

>  I have been  contacted by numerous persons with CFS/ME, MCS, FMS, GWI,

> TBI,  etc. that are having adverse health reactions while in this  lighting.

> Some may find the information that Jerry, I and others  cross-disability have

> been gathering to be educational.

>

> It is up and running with videos, news stories, research and  technical

> papers all in a user-friendly format, literally loaded with  information. Many

> people with various disabilities and medical conditions will  find this to

> be very helpful. CFS/Myalgic Encephalopathy and Fibromyalgia are  mentioned.

>

> TBI frontal lobe disabled engineer, Jerry Straub has  collaborated on

> gathering CFL information from persons in the US, England, and  Australia

since

> Christmas before last. This was when the incandescent lighting  ban was

> announced (Energy Act of 2007), and he and I spoke out of desperation of

 being

> left " in the dark " . Jerry's presentation is loss of his ability to walk,

> which he regained after post-accident neuro-optometric rehabilitation. He

falls

>  when CFLs are present, risking reinjury of his previously broken back. My

> presentation in the lights is right and left temporal lobe complex partial

> epilepsy triggered after onset of CFS/ME/MCS/FMS, driven by the flicker

> rate in  florescents, strobe lights, emergency vehicles, CRT computer

> monitors?with low  refresh rates, etc. This website is Jerry's gift to the

disability

>  community.  His news story is on the website.

>

> I believe that it is also a call to action. Persons whose  disabilities are

> adversely affected by fluorescents are asked to contact their  federal

> Congressional representatives, _www.whitehouse.gov_

(http://www.whitehouse.gov)

> , local and national media, and support groups. You may provide the  website

> link to information, and possibly a request for disability accommodation

> by amendment to the Energy Act ban on incandescent lighting. It would also be

>  helpful to contact the ACCESS Board, who promulgate disability barrier

> regulations, to develop a specific lighting disability access guideline. None

> yet exists for this barrier to a large group of persons with photosensitive

>  disabilities.

>

> It could also be helpful to send an email  accommodation request to:

> * The Department of Justice, Civil Rights,  Disability Rights Section to

> give them awareness regarding this potential ADA  civil rights inaccessibility

> issue.

> * The Dept. of Energy

> * Energy  Subcommittee

> * The EPA

>

> Jerry has a copy of EPA's lack of action to Senator Carl  Levin's request

> on behalf of Jerry to address the disability barrier problem  presented by

> CFLs. The research is on the site, along with 30 some years of  research on

> Critical Flicker Frequency from brain trauma, ie. tumor, traumatic  brain

> injury, and acquired brain injury. The latter, in my lay opinion, could

> conceivably fit the CFS/ME, neurotoxin, neuroimmune or neuroborreliosis models

> that present with symptoms of brain injury including autonomic nervous system

> dysfunction.

>