Use Your Body and Your Brain Will Thank You
Thursday, August 6th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments Offby Sarah Goodyear We talk a lot on this blog about abstractions -- theories of urban development, economic hypotheses, planning paradigms. But in the end, it all has to play ...
Notes From the Field: The Future of Healthcare
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments Offby Allen Hammond I wrote before about standing in a room with dozens of MDs sitting at terminals in the world's largest medical call center. Together with an even larger group of lay health workers, they advise ...
InSTEDD: Bringing Life Saving Tools and Technology to All
Monday, July 6th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffNominated by Jim Fruchterman I want to make my gift of attention to InSTEDD, a bold nonprofit which is using technology intelligently to reduce the damage caused by epidemics and natural disasters to humanity’s most vulnerable communities. ...
Public Health Leaders Stress Climate Risk
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffWhen seasonal rains lift from the Mali skies, meningitis often follows. Dust-filled winds can elevate the disease's effects by damaging tissue in a person's nose or throat. If longer droughts become more common, as expected across ...
Bangladeshi Lawyer Fights Toxic Ship-Breaking
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffSix relatively unknown grassroots activists from around the globe receive a moment in the spotlight when the Goldman Environmental Prize announces its list of annual recipients. The prize, now in its 19th year, is considered the ...
Best Way to Lose Weight: Live Near the Grocery Store
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffIf you want to lose weight, move closer to your food: A new study from the University of British Columbia shows people who live within a kilometre of a grocery store are half as likely to be ...
Best Way to Lose Weight: Live Near the Grocery Store
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffIf you want to lose weight, move closer to your food: A new study from the University of British Columbia shows people who live within a kilometre of a grocery store are half as likely to be ...
Getting The Lead Out
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffGood news: childhood lead levels plummet. The best news I've read all day: In a stunning improvement in children's health, far fewer kids have high lead levels than 20 years ago, government research shows -- a testament to ...
Walk, Baby, Walk
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffBy Benita Beamon Is muscle power an overlooked climate solution? What would happen if Americans got all the exercise they were supposed to – and they did it by replacing short car trips with walking or biking? Would ...
Global Mercury Negotiations Commence
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffThe world's environment ministers launched international negotiations to limit mercury pollution on Friday. In a unanimous decision at the annual meeting of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Governing Council, held in Nairobi, Kenya, more than ...
Sanjay Gupta for U.S. Surgeon General?
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffThe Washington Post is reporting that President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta (who we recently interviewed) to serve as surgeon general: The offer followed a two-hour Chicago meeting in November with Obama, who said that ...
The LUCAS Imager: Portable, Affordable Blood Tests for the Other 90 Percent
Friday, December 26th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffIn the Global South, blood tests -- which require a lab, expensive evaluative equipment and/or the presence of a skilled technician -- are out of reach for the majority of the population. As advancements in disease ...
MSF’s Top Ten – How Disconnection Affects Public Health
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffIt’s hard to look forward to something as difficult and sad as Medicine Sans Frontieres top ten list of global humanitarian crises. I noted last year that this appears to be the season for top ten ...
More Green Spaces Equal Better Health for All
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffA recent study offers hard evidence of something many of us have known for a long time: access to nature improves our health. According to the researchers' findings, as reported in this BBC article, the ...
Image of the Day: 1298 Ambulances in Mumbai
Monday, November 10th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffSaving Energy, Saving Lives 1298's ambulances provide reliable 24x7 emergency medical service to the residents of Mumbai. Its business model uses a sliding price scale driven by ability to pay, which is determined by the kind of ...
Treating Health Care as a Commons
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffTwo physicians explain how the commons could be used to improve medical care. By David Bollier From my reading of history, medical care was once a more intimate and ethical endeavor, a calling that involved a respectful communion ...
Facebook, Coca-Cola and Medical Aid in Africa
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffBy Hesseltje S. van Goor A recent development on Facebook has shown that social networking may be more powerful than simply a vehicle for gossip between friends, co-workers and ex-significant others. When Coca-Cola executives responded to a ...
Facebook, Coca-Cola and Medical Aid in Africa
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffBy Hesseltje S. van Goor A recent development on Facebook has shown that social networking may be more powerful than simply a vehicle for gossip between friends, co-workers and ex-significant others. When Coca-Cola executives responded to a ...
Resources: U.S. Impacts of Climate Change, Human Development
Monday, July 21st, 2008 Posted in Green News, Health | Comments OffTwo new reports offer useful tools for thinking about the future, both focused on the United States and both needed. The first report, Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health, Settlements and Welfare comes ...