Guess What Has Decoupled from Economic Growth?
To promote both human health and environmental quality, countries would focus not on growing the GDP, but rather on different goals including education.
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Decolonizing Black Women’s Health Through Land Reparations
Our initiative, Restore Forward, weaves ancestral and traditional methods of healing: for the Earth itself as we restore the land, for each other as we restore broken relationships, and for ourselves as we rebalance connection, at a time when our world feels more fractured than ever.
Down to the Ground – Green Medicine for the People!
Health is a human right, not a privilege, which is why Herbalists Without Borders work to deliver health justice to displaced and disadvantaged people via the powerful medium of herbs.
Public Health is the New Bottom Line
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?
Uncharted Territory: Nate Hagens on coronavirus and the economy
At Post Carbon Institute we 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.
Food as Medicine
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.
Boosting Health in Everyone’s Hometown
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.
How a Health Clinic Made a Local Grocery Store Part of Its Prescription
Is there a way they could create jobs, grow their local economy, and reduce blight, all while helping people live longer and healthier?
Public health, endocrine disruption and the precautionary principle
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.
Study: Fracking Industry Wells Associated With Premature Birth
New research suggests increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes closer to active unconventional natural gas wells
The Key to Your Health Could be in Your ZIP Code
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.
Surgeon General’s Prescription for Health: Walk More
Walking good for health, community and economy.