Precocious (premature) puberty:

http://www.breastcancerfund.org/site/c.kwKXLdPaE/b.3266509/k.27C1/Falling_Age_of_Puberty_Main_Page.htm

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/21/health/he-puberty21

http://ag.arizona.edu/fcs/fshd/people/ellis/publications/Tither&Ellis2008.pdf

http://www.familieslink.co.uk/download/june07/Early%20menarche.pdf

The impact of Diet:

http://www.foodstudies.org/index.htm

http://www.acfnewsource.org/science/crime_diet.html

http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/200305/fighting-crime-nutrition

http://www.hundredyearlie.com/fitzgeraldreport/2006/10/junk_food_linked_to_violence_a.html

The impact of personal care and household products:

http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/149/8/712.pdf

http://www.grist.org/article/lipstick-bungle/

http://www.breastcancerfund.org/atf/cf/%7BDE68F7B2-5F6A-4B57-9794-AFE5D27A3CFF%7D/Unmasked%202007_final.pdf

http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=97bf71a8f3916b2a41688810f62d15ff

Local alternatives and solutions

http://www.eastendfoodcoop.com/

http://www.slowfoodpgh.com/csa.html

http://www.going-natural.com

http://www.blacksingreen.org

http://www.aaenvironment.com/

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Environmental Justice

http://aaenvironment.com/PrinciplesOfEJ.htm

Books

African American Environmental Thought :Foundations, by Kimberly K. Smith

To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History, by Dianne Glave and Mark Stoll

Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality and Gendered Violence, by Jody Miller