EDUCATION: Community Colleges: A vital resource for education in the post-carbon era
By Nancy Lee Wood PhD, RN, Post Carbon Institute
The key question is, "Where in our current educational system is it possible to develop an institutionalize the kinds of education needed to prepare people for work in the post-carbon economy-and to do so relatively quickly?"
Online Course: Building Sustainable Health Systems: The Essential Role of Public Health
By Dan Bednarz, Nancy Lee Wood PhD, RN, Health after Oil
In spring semester 2011 the Institute for Sustainability and Post-carbon Education at Bristol Community College in Fall River, Massachusetts will offer an online course titled, “Building Sustainable Health Systems: The Essential Role of Public Health.” The premises of this course are that 1) the structure and content of public health, medicine and nursing will be deeply transformed as society reaches the limits to growth and 2) public health is critical to all socioeconomic localization and community building.
An open letter to medicine, nursing, and public health upon reaching the limits to growth
By Dan Bednarz, Nancy Lee Wood PhD, RN, Energy Bulletin
Mainstream health policy analysis is in an intellectual cul-de-sac due to its paradigmatic premise that the economy will continue to expand and thereby allow the government to provide more and more funding for health