Oppose fracking wherever it is.

Are We Trading Our Health For Oil in New, Fracking-Induced California Gold Rush?

 

If climate change is so dangerous and eminent, why aren't people worried?

Why do we worry too much about some environmental risks and not enough about others?

Mental Shortcuts

Big decisions based on little information

Answer the following questions with yes or no:

1. Are pesticides a serious threat to public health?

2. Is genetically modified food a serious threat to public health?

3. Is bisphenol A (a chemical ingredient of plastics, also used to line food cans) a serious threat to public health?

Now, the most important question:

4. Did you have all the facts you needed to make a fully informed, analytical, reasoned decision about any of the first three questions?

Riding the coattails of the fiscal cliff bargain, the 2008 Farm Bill—three months past its “renew by” date—got a nine-month extension shortly after New Year’s Day. The extension could have included funds to preserve programs that help rural America and rebuild a food and farming system around the challenges of the 21st century. Instead, the policy—concocted in backdoor fashion without any public input—might as well have been written by lobbyists from the crop insurance, finance and agrochemical industries.

Clueless about Food and Agriculture? Why Everyone has a Stake in the Farm Bill Fight

More and more children are being diagnosed with chronic diseases that have previously been only seen in middle age adults.

Kids Already Have Middle Age Ilnesses: What Can We Do?

In response to this the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop to inform the policies that are discussed at the 2012

Public Health Linkages with Sustainability: Workshop Summary (2013)

In 1992 world leaders met at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to reaffirm the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment that was established on June 16, 1972 in Stockholm. The meeting resulted in the adoption of Agenda 21 by the member states which is a framework for the transition to a more sustainable world. In 2012 the members gathered to assess and reaffirm the importance of progress towards the efforts of Agenda 21.

In response to this the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine held a workshop to inform the policies that are discussed at the 2012 Earth Summit. The workshop, held in Woods Hole, Massachusetts on July 25-26, 2011, focused on the issue of sustainability and health as well as the linkages that are currently present between the two.

The workshop included presentations and discussions which are summarized in Public Health Linkages with Sustainability: Workshop Summary. The report presents how different areas of public health, such as food and water resources, link to sustainability and opportunities or venues that can be examined.

YouTube - How It All Ends

See previous post. This is a follow up with the devils advocate:

YouTube - How It All Ends

The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See : TreeHugger

This may be the most important Video you'll ever see!!!! Think life or death for you, your family, your children and grandchildren, humanity.

Please watch this video!!!! Can you refute it? Can you gamble on it? I have put this "pass on" post under more tags than any other post. PLEASE, pass it on to everyone you can.

The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See : TreeHugger

Michael Moore movie on U.S. healthcare

AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Controversial Michael Moore Flick "Sicko" Will Compare U.S. Health Care with Cuba's: "'The World Health Organization ranks health care systems based on objective measures of medical outcomes: The United States' health care system currently ranks 37th in the world, behind Colombia and Portugal; the United States ranks 44th in the world in infant mortality, behind many impoverished Latin American countries. While infant mortality in the United States is skewed toward poor people, who have rates double the wealthy, the top quintile of the U.S. population has infant mortality rates higher than Canadians in the lowest quintile of wealth."

Scientists tout new drug rankings

BBC NEWS Health Scientists tout new drug rankings

Why Having More No Longer Makes Us Happy

After over 2000 years, science rediscovers ataraxia.

"New friend or new coffeemaker? Pick one"

AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Why Having More No Longer Makes Us Happy:

"Check this out: When researchers at Carnegie Mellon (somewhat disgustingly) dropped samples of cold virus directly into subjects' nostrils, those with rich social networks were four times less likely to get sick. An economy that produces only individualism undermines us in the most basic ways."

Aren't there better ways to spend $9 billion?

Now that a university study shows that medical marijuana has benefits where there is no benefits and greater risks with legal tobacco and alcohol.

AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: Pot Prisoners Cost Americans $1 Billion a Year

In Clue to Addictive Behavior, a Brain Injury Halts Smoking - New York Times

In Clue to Addictive Behavior, a Brain Injury Halts Smoking - New York Times

Just because I smoke.

Here's a label that I will look for if it is used.

Hekhsher tsedek: Righteous certification indicating, among other things, that employees worked in safe factories and weren't exploited.

MercuryNews.com 01/13/2007 Jewish group wants symbol to signify how kosher food workers are treated