By Vicki Robin, Vicki Robin blog
Public Health. What is that, really? It’s not just the services of research institutions, public education, medical professionals, hospitals, equipment, medicines, emergency rooms, insurance and such. It’s a healthy public. The question arising now is: What can we do, as a society, to support a healthy public?
By Asher Miller, Nate Hagens, Post Carbon Institute
At Post Carbon Institute have been closely monitoring the global COVID-19 pandemic and encouraging our staff, volunteers, and broader community to take great caution and practice social distancing. But that doesn’t mean we should disengage.
By Jody Tishmack, Anima/Soul
We no longer think of food as medicine, or expect it to be medicine. We are more often concerned about the negative aspects, avoiding the unhealthy foods we shouldn’t eat. Plants have provided our medicine for most of human history.
By Jay Walljasper, On The Commons
Good health means more than good medical care. Many other things affect how long we live and how healthy we feel—conditions in our housing and neighborhoods, the social and physical environment of our communities, economic opportunities and the levels of stress in our lives.
By Bob Van Meter, YES! magazine
Is there a way they could create jobs, grow their local economy, and reduce blight, all while helping people live longer and healthier?
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
The entire human and animal population of the planet is now involved in an uncontrolled experiment courtesy of the chemical industry. We are all exposed to a soup of man-made chemicals every day, some of them endocrine disruptors.
By JHSPH Staff, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
New research suggests increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes closer to active unconventional natural gas wells
By Brian Schwartz, Annemarie Hirsch, The Conversation
Where we live – the air we breathe, the water we drink, the environments around us – has a huge impact on our health and even on our DNA.
By Jay Walljasper, Resilience.org
Walking good for health, community and economy.
By Sarah Byrnes, Ken White, Resilience.org
The challenge is always what's the particular role of an individual person or of an individual organization. The discernment process is something that everyone is working on, figuring out my role in this systems change.
By Jon Queally, Common Dreams
Comparing coal, oil, and gas addiction to the last generation's effort to kick the tobacco habit, doctors say that quitting would be the best thing humanity can do for its long-term health
By Robert Shetterly, Common Dreams
I chose to paint [Joan Gussow] because for longer than almost anyone else in this country she has been preaching the necessity—for human health, ecological health, and energy health—of local, organic agriculture.