Yes, that's me, Denise Tzumli, feminist and greenie, currently studying to become an engineer.

 

 

Denise Tzumli

 

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as at December 2007

^{Trainee Urban Engineer}

The environment is my passion, and I am interested in all aspects of urban infrastructure construction and management. I want my work to help create healthy cities which allow us to live in step with the landscape.

As a student I am preparing myself for the profession of environmental civil engineer.

 

 

 

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How did I get to this point?

 

Probably the most important influence on my life and hence my thinking is my allergy to eggs.

I've been allergic to eggs ever since I can remember and am very sensitive to them. The anitgens I have are both heat resistent and cell bound. When I was about 7 my mother accidentally gave me something to eat she had forgotten was brushed with egg and ever since I have been highly sceptical about all the food I eat. I've always read labels, and always asked what is in this?

 

When I say sensitive, it is at the level of individual molecules. Other people smell a cake cooking in the oven, my eyes itch. Those labels which say "may contain  traces of egg" because the production line is not cleaned out between batches of different ingredients, indicate to me that I'm taking a chance if I eat them. Sometimes my stomache gets upset, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes my ears itch like crazy sometimes they don't, sometimes I don't get any reaction.

 

Because of this sensitivity I am always concerned when government administrative bodies say

" this new chemical at concentrations of less than Xppm" is safe, I ask how do they know?

 

 

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Things I support

	The Gutenberg Project aims to make freely available the text of books as they enter the public domain. Too many great books are no longer in print, but become accessible to all through this project.
	I just love the Firefox browser, and my pages are best displayed using it. Firefox was the browser that introducted tabbed browsing.
	I use Ubuntu on my PC at home.
	Have a look. You may also think that the internet is worth keeping freely available. The only thing I would like to control is that over 70% of email traffic is spam.
Rachel's Weekly	Much of the information covered in Rachel's Weekly never appears in the mainstream media and can only be found in medical and scientific journals that most people never see. Furthermore, Rachel's Weekly tries to put environmental problems into a political context of money and power, so that people can see how all our problems - and all our local fights -- are connected. To address these "big picture" concerns, they discuss issues such as the influx of money into our elections, the enormous influence of multinational corporations, and other distortions of our democracy.
	Freefall. Follow the adventures of Florence, spaceship engineer, coping with her extraterrestial captain Sam, and a whole lot of other interesting folks, very few of whom are human.