Impact of the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively in the last 50 years than in any comparable period of human history. We have done this to meet the growing demands for food, fresh water,...
View ArticleWhch One Bites Us in the Ass First?
The other day I saw a profile on James Lovelock in the WaPo where he was opining that we've gone past the tipping point with regard to global climate change, and that we could anticipate seeing...
View ArticlePublic Health is a Treasonable Liberal Plot
Cross-posted at Impact Analysis I was wondering what it would take to lure me back from self-imposed exile to the blog playground. It wasn't the raging warbloggers reinventing themselves as...
View ArticleTime to Hold Some Feet to the Fire
Now this election cycle is behind us, we'll soon learn if we shifted from enthusiastically creating problems that threaten us as a species (Republicans control) or simply work on them at a pace that...
View ArticleNew York State’s Going to Get Healthy
Cross-posted at Impact AnalysisThis week, New York state Governor Eliot Spitzer today announced the initiation of a program make New York the healthiest state in the nation. This is going to be...
View ArticleWaPo Sez the Military is Unprepared for Other Conflicts
Ya think? Talk about being ahead of the news cycle on this issue.
View ArticleChemicals We Could Do Without
Let' face it. We probably use too many chemicals. We also probably watch too much TV, and don't eat our fruits and vegetables, but those are stories for another day. A lot of folks are fond of...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Now Show Pre-Katrina New Orleans - Suspicious or What?
Is it time to don our aluminum foil deflector beanies (tinfoil hats, for the souls less analytically minded)? According to new stories just a few hours old (this one is from the Seattle Times)
View ArticleWho's Seymour Hersh's Offload?
The company I work for - an international infrastructure and environment firm (fancy term for a large engineering company) is constantly challenging each of us "who's your replacement"; the implication...
View ArticleThe Republican War on Science and Environmental Health Perspectives
The Republican war on science is systematic and multi-faceted and very difficult to keep up with. One episode which recently came to my attention involves my favorite technical journal Environmental...
View ArticleAddicted to Oil: U.S. Oil Policy Simulation
A paper published last year by Resources for the Future made the point that our oil vulnerability has less to do with the amount we import than simply with the staggering amounts we consume period. In...
View ArticleDebunking the Conservative Myth of "Environmentalists Killed Millions Banning...
This falls in the category of "something I wish I had written first". It's a brilliant takedown of a dead horse that conservatives just love to keep flogging - the myth that the environmentalist...
View ArticleThe Sad State of Environmental Health Policy Today
A longer version of this post can be found at Impact AnalysisThe other day, Revere was discussing John Edwards’s presidential platform on cancer, and expressing disappointment that Senator Edwards...
View ArticleAntibiotic Resistance, Creationism and Why Mike Huckabee is Scary
One of the hottest topics in public health is MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphyloccus aureus, a strain of Staph aureus that has become resistant to commonly used antibiotics. A handy fact sheet on...
View ArticleChristianity's Role in Our Ecological Crisis - Lynn White's Essay Revisited
I was driving around a last week performing an errand, and I had NPR on the car radio as background noise because I wasn't in the mood for music (NPR is mostly background noise to me these days,...
View ArticleCDC Great Lakes Health Risk Study - A Follow-Up
The lefty blogs are talking about this study of hazardous substances and adverse health effects around the Great Lakes, alleging that the federal government has suppressed a study linking exposures to...
View ArticleGEOblogging – an Introduction to the Global Environmental Outlook report
Natural resources and ecosystems underpin all our hopes for a better world.These words, from the recently-issued UNEP Global Environmental OutlookGEO 4 report, should be tattooed mirror-wise on the...
View ArticleWHEE - No Excuses
And no beating yourself up either, because that's not what it's about. WHEE is a lifelong change. Progress is not going to happen overnight, and there will be stumbles, bad days, busy days,...
View ArticleHealth Insurers Investing in Fast Food
When I first saw the banner, "Insurance Companies Invest in Fast Food for Easy Profit, Despite Public Health Concern" (see here, here and here), I had to search within myself for the emotional tone...
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