What we need to do to protect children’s health and the environment, as well as our own well being.
The landscape of health has changed. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s and allergies. In the words of Elizabeth Warren, a Harvard [...]
Using environmental science articles to gauge our progress in the environmental race can be filled with conflicting messages. While our progress is working on commendable, we are very far from where we need to be. Some of the current environmental articles praise our progress, as though we have somehow arrived because we are finally paying [...]
There a host of current environmental issues facing the population of Earth today. There are dangers that were once front page news that have been pushed aside for headlines detailing the economy and the potential for economic change. Yet the current environmental issues are not going to go away just because the media has found a [...]
While much attention is paid to the care patients receive in our health care institutions, until recently little attention has been paid to the physical space where they stay for days, possibly weeks. In fact, the very buildings and medical devices we use to treat our patients and residents could contribute to the diseases we [...]
IS eating a hamburger the global warming equivalent of driving a Hummer? This week an article in The Times of London carried a headlinethat blared: “Give Up Meat to Save the Planet.” Former Vice President Al Gore, who has made climate change his signature issue, has even been assailed for omnivorous eating by animal rights activists.
It’s [...]
The continuing rise in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide is causing an increase in the amount of heat trapped by the atmosphere. As a result of this extra heat the environmental effects of a changing climate are becoming obvious. From loss of Polar ice cover to retreating mountaintop glaciers, from changes in the marine environment [...]
In 2007, Forbes picked Vermont as the greenest state, a choice consistent with conventional thinking about low-impact living. Vermont has an abundance of trees, farms, backyard compost heaps, and environmentally aware citizens, and it has no crowded expressways or big, dirty cities. (The population of Vermont’s largest city, Burlington, is just under 40,000.) Vermont also ranks [...]
Thomas Alva Edison was a failure. It has been said that he “went back to the drawing board” more than 6,000 times before finding the right plant to produce a carbonized filament for his incandescent light bulb.
Six thousand times. Do you have that kind of innovative stamina?
It’s been said that:
Risk + Experimentation (+ Failure) = [...]
There’s no question that our planet is warming up. Average global temperatures have risen around the world in the last 100 years, especially in the past 20 years. There are many theories out there when looking for answers to this, but only two are obvious. One of those theories is the idea that the Earth [...]
Natural gas is regarded as a relatively clean source of energy but there is mounting evidence that it has a dirty side.
My colleague Jon Hurdle has reported on Wyoming water woes that have been linked to the booming gas industry. You can see his stories here and here.
In August U.S. government scientists reported that they had [...]