For 16 years TEDX produced and shared scientific evidence of endocrine disruption with key stakeholders, and connected people with the information they needed to create a safer, healthier world. Due to lack of funding, we closed the organization on November 30, 2019.
We remain forever grateful for the vision and inspiration of our late founder, Dr. Theo Colborn; the commitment and productivity of TEDX’s dedicated staff; the guidance of Executive Director Dr. Carol Kwiatkowski and the Board of Directors; our funders large and small, who made the work possible; and for the many partner organizations that fueled our work with their wisdom and passion. Thank you all!
Loreen Hackett:
Aug 29, 2019 at 11:09 AM
SO many of us will truly miss the incredible work and information you have provided over the years. You have offered some of the most informative talks and webinars I've ever taken, especially regarding learning of EDCs and the effects of PFAS. I sincerely hope you secure funding to continue to share the invaluable information you have provided. It has helped more than you know, and we are ever grateful. I wish you much success in future endeavors.
ML Ballweg:
Aug 29, 2019 at 09:49 AM
Theo and all of you have been such a blessing! Best wishes and may the important work continue.
James Herman:
Aug 29, 2019 at 08:58 AM
I inadvertently happened to sit next to Dr. Theo Colborn at a symposium at Cooper Union in Manhattan New York. The work she had implemented through TEDX had enabled me to produce a fact based visual presentation to our Otsego New York County Board back in the days before NY State banned hydraulic fracturing. I was able to thank her in person at the symposium. A few years after this she passed away. I am grateful to all of you for continuing her work. The resources TEDX provides are essential to those of us involved in bringing scientific fact based information to local politics.
Joan Baur:
Aug 29, 2019 at 07:18 AM
Your work is essentiel. There should be more of it not less. Unfortunately it seems to be getting more and more difficult to disseminate vital information to the general public no matter what one does. I wish you the best in whatever you do. You truly helped us in France to protect our area between the Cevenne mountains and the Mediterranean from gas fracking. All the permits for it here have been annulled.
Cathe' Fish:
Aug 29, 2019 at 12:55 AM
Theo and All,
Thank you for all you have done. Your book Our Stolen Future woke me up twenty years ago to what was going on with our food and chemicals. I have become a local clean food activist since then.
Sridhar:
Aug 28, 2019 at 11:25 PM
Sorry to know of it’s imminent shutdown
Hoping it serves as a legacy for something else to carry it on
All good things must come to an end; but this wasn’t just good, it was better
All the best and thanks for the journey together
Ahmad Mahdavi:
Aug 28, 2019 at 10:50 PM
It is an excellent site of information, unfortunately I discovered it late last year and hopefully that it remains to be active considering the threats of toxic exposure.
Terry Collins:
Aug 28, 2019 at 08:07 PM
I am really sorry to see TEDX go!
This very small, but incredibly potent nonprofit brought vital insight into the other great existential threat facing mankind, the low dose/concentration adverse effects of everyday-everywhere chemicals where endocrine disruption is the mechanism we know most about.
Humanity hardly knows it—life itself can't know what is happening to it—but the TEDX people where on guard trying to steer our civilization toward a good future for all life. And the team made epic contributions. To lose you when we know such trends are in play as Western Man being on track to be mostly infertile by 2040 is sad indeed.
Perhaps the day will come when the heroines, and heroes, of sustainability, like yourselves, have an easier time of carrying out their vital work.
My deepest thanks, intellectual affection and very best to all of you as you find other positions.
Terry
Teresa Heinz Professor of Green Chemistry and
Director of the Institute for Green Science
Carnegie Mellon University
K. Shimberg:
Aug 28, 2019 at 07:21 PM
So sad to see TEDX forced to close down your valuable work and information-sharing, all of which has helped so many of us in our own communities' continuing work to understand, and convince decision-makers to heed, the interrelated workings of Nature, both subtle and obvious! Glad that you can continue the website for awhile longer, and hope that in the meantime a few sponsoring/funding "angels" might appear to revive your continuing research and info-disseminating work. Keep Theo from turning over in her grave, before we all join her there as every living being's health, well-being, and peace of mind continue to be undermined by uncaring excessive-profit-motivated fellow inhabitants of our only environmental home!
Steven Gilbert:
Aug 28, 2019 at 05:13 PM
Dear TEDX team,
I am very sorry to hear the news that the TEDX website is shutting down but not surprised. I shut down Toxipedia for much the same reason - lack of funding. These resources are so valuable - how do we keep them funded and relevant?
Onward -- Steve
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