Preventing Breast Cancer - with Breast Cancer Prevention Partners

What if the real solution for reducing the risk of breast cancer was eliminating the chemicals in our environment that have been linked to the development of the disease?

This week, in a special edition of Green Street, Patti and Doug talk briefly about President Trump’s angry dismissal of climate change science. Then Nancy Buermeyer and Laura Gillan from the non-profit Breast Cancer Prevention Partners talk about the organization's many efforts to raise awareness of the role toxins in our everyday lives play in the development of breast cancer, and what people can do to support their mission. Please share widely with friends and family. 

Breast Cancer Prevention - with Breast Cancer Prevention PartnersGreen Street with Patti & Doug Wood

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Links from the Interview

• The website of Breast Cancer Prevention Partners: https://www.bcpp.org/

• Food Packaging: https://www.bcpp.org/take-action/no-toxics-in-food-packaging-2026/

• Safer Beauty Bill Package: https://www.bcpp.org/take-action/tell-congress-we-need-safer-beauty-for-all/

Links from the News

• President Trump lashes out at climate science: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/20072026/trump-national-academies-climate-manual/

Fixing a Broken Food System - with Dr. Andrew Flachs

Multinational food companies focus almost exclusively on production and profit. Under this system, plenty of food is produced, but because of this system, billions of people around the world remain food insecure, our resources are being depleted, and our climate is suffering.

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the public health costs associated with ultra processed foods, and how high levels of wireless radiation in urban areas are raising alarm bells with public health experts. Then Dr. Andrew Flachs talks about our worldwide food system, how small farms actually provide a model for how to fix our broken system, and why he wrote his new book, "Feeding the World As If People Mattered - How Small Farms Produce Value Beyond Yields.”

Fixing a Broken Food System - with Dr. Andrew FlachsGreen Street with Patti & Doug Wood

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Links from the Interview

• Dr. Flachs' new book, Feeding the World As If People Mattered: https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/feeding-the-world-as-if-people-mattered

Links from the News

• Scientists warn about chemicals in our food supply: https://www.ehn.org/ultra-processed-food-chemicals

• Scientific review finds high levels of RF radiation in urban areas: https://www.ehn.org/cell-tower-radiation-policy

Dr. Andrew Flachs

Dismantling the EPA - with Dr. Kyla Bennett

The Trump administration is doing everything in its power to break the EPA. Will the agency survive?

This week on Green Street, Patti and Doug talk about the rise of anti-bacterial resistance due to climate change, and the EPA’s latest attempt to weaken drinking water standards for PFAS chemicals. Then former EPA scientist Dr. Kyla Bennett, senior scientist at Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, discusses how the critical EPA programs that were designed to protect human health and the environment are at risk under the current administration and how the loss of EPA scientists and policy experts could spell real trouble for us now and in the future. 

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Links from the Interview

• The website for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) - https://peer.org/

Links from the News

• Antibiotics resistance is on the rise from climate change: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/26/climate-crisis-accelerating-antibiotic-resistance-across-world-salmonella-study

• The Trump administration is doing away with PFAS limits in drinking water: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/26/trump-administration-pfas-drinking-water-regulation

Dr. Kyla Bennett