By Florence “Flip” Ross a LuxEcoLiving Advocate and Contributor
We were very attentive to the Presidential Election, we are paying attention to the war in Afghanistan, we are very absorbed in what is going to happen to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. We are very involved with who is going to win the Golden Globes Award and the Oscar, but we are not listening to the protests of our planet.
It would seem to me that Planet Earth is trying to tell us something, but we are not hearing it. It has hit us with several destructive hurricanes in Florida, a devastating tsunami in South Asia, a fearful mudslide in California, a dreadful fire in Texas, and a horrific avalanche in Utah, but we seem to be oblivious to the import of these catastrophes.
We go on polluting our air, fouling up our waters with oil spills, cutting down our rain forests, and our seafood is becoming so polluted I am afraid to eat it anymore. So let us start listening to what our planet is trying to tell us.
Some people are under the belief that God is punishing us. There is a limit on what we can blame on God, as opposed to what we can blame on ourselves. Let’s start with overpopulation. History can show us that whenever we have become overpopulated we have been visited with war and plagues, a thinning out of our numbers as it were. Where the hurricanes caused such destruction was a result of the tornados which followed, a combination much like ham and eggs. If hurricanes come, can tornados be far behind?
The awful tsunami was the result of an earthquake on the ocean bottom caused by the sliding of earth’s plates. The terrible loss of lives which followed was due to the fact that no safety warning system existed which, had it existed would have saved those lives. So it was man’s negligence which led to all those deaths, not the wrath of God.
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Nancy Chuda is a seasoned broadcast journalist, television writer/producer, talk show host and author. Her career spans over three decades having appeared on both national and cable television.
In 1971 she authored one of America’s first low-calorie cookbooks, How To Gorge George Without Fattening Fanny, published by Hawthorn Books. Appearing as a regular guest on Dinah’s Place, Dinah Shore’s ABC daytime talk show. And later on The Johnny Carson Show, The Today Show with Barbara Walters, Merv Griffin, Phil Donahue, and David Frost. In 1972, Nancy and ABC’s Good Morning America co-produced Michael Krause produced a cable program, The Low- Calorie Gallery, based on her best selling cook book. In 1975, hired by Warner-Amex as part of a creative team, she was responsible for hosting and producing content for Columbus Then and Now, a program, the invention of QUBE, an interactive television system which played a pivotal role in the history of American cable television. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUBE
In 1978 she developed a series for ABC’s Good Morning America based on an article which appeared in Mother Earth News magazine. The Integral Urban House, a case study project and model for a sound urban habitat sponsored by the Farallones Institute in Berkley California was the first example of green architecture ever to be televised.
In 1979, Nancy co-produced and hosted Sunnyside a Los Angeles based public affairs program viewed on the CBS affiliate station KNXT, From 1980-1984, she appeared on KABC’s Eyewitness News as entertainment reporter and film critic.
Her environmental advocacy began when her daughter was diagnosed with cancer. In 1990 she co-produced an Emmy nominated ABC Variety Special, An Evening With Friends For The Environment to benefit Mothers and Others for a Livable Planet one of the first national children’s environmental health advocacy groups in which she served as a volunteer.
Currently, she is the co-founder and President Emeritus of Healthy Child Healthy World, a non-profit organization established to honor the Chuda’s only child, Colette, who died in 1991 at the age of 5 from Wilm’s tumor a nonhereditary childhood cancer. She is also the co-founder of The Colette Chuda Environmental Fund, a donor-advised fund which supports major epidemiological research on children’s health.
Nancy has won numerous awards for her advocacy. In 1996, the California League of Conservation Voters Environmental Leadership Award, The Healthy Schools Heroes Award, presented to both her and her husband James Chuda by California Governor Gray Davis for their legislative efforts in securing The Healthy Schools Act which was signed into law in September, 2000. In 2003, Parent’s Magazine published an article Mom’s On A Mission and awarded Nancy for her environmental leadership for children’s environmental health.
She serves as an associate of the Director’s Council of Public Representatives of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and was appointed by President Clinton’s Health and Human Services Secretary, Donna Shalala, to serve as a member of the National Advisory Council for the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) a position she held for four years.
In 2010, along with her husband James she founded LuxEcoLiving.
