Climate – May 16
Dealing with climate risks: adaptation
Global warming may exceed infections as health threat
Climate change biggest threat to health, doctors say
Bill McKibben: Can 350.org save the world?
Health
Food & agriculture – May 14
The ‘Process’ of Rebuilding a Local Food Economy
Michael Pollan Dishes out Advice on Healthful Eating
How should we eat to ensure a sustainable future?
There is No Box: Big Ideas About Urban Agriculture and Local Food Systems
U.S. public health community begins discussing peak oil
Today’s health care services rely on infrastructure and practices that depend upon petroleum. That recognition offers public health professionals a significant chance to help prepare the nation for a post-peak oil world. (Report on conference at Johns Hopkins University, with support from the Centers for Disease Control – CDC.)
Pace yourself
I am terrible at predicting the future. More importantly, I am terrible at living there.
Geopolitics – May 5
After six years, one month and 11 days, Britain ends its military mission in Iraq
The rise and rise of Russian nationalism
The Geopolitics of Pandemics
Food & agriculture – May 3
Report: “Evaluating the Performance of Genetically Engineered Crops” (Union of Concerned Scientists)
Biochar good news, bad news
Brazil slave labor complaints rise (sugarcane ethanol)
Egypt orders slaughter of all pigs over swine flu
Health – May 3
The ethics of environmentally responsible health care
The Oil Drum ponders H1N1 CLZ5 NGZ2 (swine flu)
Global health expert Laurie Garrett discusses swine flu
Why can’t we concentrate?
Swine flu – April 30
WHO raises pandemic alert to second-highest level
Mexican toddler in U.S. dies from swine flu
Reporting the Story
Boss Hog: The power of pork
Swine flu causes? – April 30
Understanding swine flu
Symptom: swine flu. Diagnosis: industrial agriculture?
We’re all in this together
Crisis lays bare the meat industry’s monstrous power
The monster at our door
Water & environment – Apr 30
Officials in Three States Pin Water Woes on Gas Drilling
Oregon’s water issues run deep
Water Controversies Boil Over in California
Just in case
Officials or the media may or may not be overreacting. New diseases crop up all the time, and most are not serious. … This might become very serious, or not, but the risk of death to any of us is statistically low – except in the long run.
Don’t panic – April 28
Sharon Astyk: The New Swine Flu Review
Kunstler: The Joker
Emergency Room parable of global warming
Stockpiling for perilous times
