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Lancet: Tackling Climate Change Good for Health

The health benefits of strategies for tackling climate change were described as "a convenient truth" at the launch of groundbreaking research published by the Lancet last week.

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Ecological literacy

David Orr argues that education processes may produce 'clever' but unintelligent graduates. What education is for and what type of students emerge into the world is discussed.
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6 Billion reasons

The project is called ‘6 Billion Reasons’ and it gives you, and all earth’s people, a creative, visual and verbal way to stand up and be counted. Go and look! www.6billionreasons.org
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Paul Hawken's address to the class of 2009

Paul Hawken is a friend of CharityFocus, renowned entrepreneur, visionary environmental activist, founder of Wiser Earth and author of many books -- most recently Blessed Unrest. Last week, he was presented with an honorary doctorate of humane letters by University of Portland, when he delivered this superb commencement address.
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Free screenings of The Age of Stupid for the NHS

From 7 July, staff and inpatients across the whole NHS will be able to see the film the Age of Stupid for free. The Campaign for Greener Healthcare has teamed up with the NHS Sustainable Development Unit and the Climate and Health Council to arrange a blanket licence fee for the film, which stars actor Pete Postlethwaite as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?

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Climate change the cholera of our era

In an article in The Times on 25 May, Muir Gray likens climate change to the Victorian scourge of cholera, and calls for a public health revolution in response. "Smoking, Aids, swine flu? They all pale into insignificance compared to climate change’s threat to health." The article has provoked brisk debate in the medical profession.

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Notes from Launch of Institute of Sustainable Health and Environment

Here are my (fairly incomprehensible) notes from the launch of ISHE at University West of England, Bristol. Please see their website for more details, but maybe this gives a flavour of the day and the talks.

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South West climate connections survey published

Following the Climate Connection South West event in February 2009, the SHA commissioned a mapping of climate-health related initiatives in the region, to inform future strategy development. The data collected in the survey have now been published online, allowing readers to find out about actionsExperiences of public health action and learning for climate change, contributed to the site by participants. undertaken both inside and outside the NHS, together with contact details for each project.

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Health: quality or quantity?

At what point do we stop extending lives? Like economic growth extending life year on year is taken for granted as a measure of success. But is success a population that is no happier? Is success an environment being destroyed by the consumption of drugs? Is success more people bedbound with severe health problems and minimal quality of life?
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The Sun: "Fatties cause global warming"

Front page of The Sun on 21 April 2009 reported that "The rising number of fat people was yesterday blamed for global warming. Scientists warned that the increase in big-eaters means more food production — a major cause of CO2 gas emissions warming the planet. Overweight people are also more likely to drive, adding to environmental damage. "

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Does carbon make us happy?

I took this photo in Barracoa, Cuba whilst on holiday. Me and two friends were met these locals whilst walking along the coast road where they live. We ended up playing dominoes and having a chat. They were interested in our lives and they were keen to tell us about theirs. It turned out that one of the men, called César, sold sandwiches in the market in the morning and he spent the rest of his time with is family and friends. Typically this meant playing dominoes, eating and drinking together and talking. César gave us all food for thought as he felt very lucky with what he had in his life. He explained that although we could afford to travel we also had to work long hours. He told us that he could not afford to travel out of his district, but he had enough food and a home. To him what made him happy was spending time with his child, wife and friends.
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Screening for Carbon Dependence Syndrome hailed a success!

Screening for carbon dependency was a great success at the UKPHA conference!

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Nursing, Sustainability, climate chaos and health care

This is a larger resource regarding the discussions around sustainability and nursing. It is the basis for a forthcoming chapter in 'Green Infusions", a text book for embedding sustainability into HE subjects. Some of the themes are also covered in the opinion section on this site. "Of the many global challenges to health, climate change and unsustainable lifestyles are arguably the most important factors in determining the future health of populations. If this is the case, and if nurses are to play a part in health promotion, education for health must include education for sustainability. It may be argued that there needs to be a paradigm shift within nursing from individualistic, narrowly defined vocational and biomedical models towards a more radical ecocentric paradigm. Supporting this is the fact that sustainability and health care is now a policy objective of the UK government (DH 2008c). This chapter will not outline the links between global warming and health in great detail, but rather will address some of the challenges and how Nursing Education is currently responding".
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Carbon Dependency damages your health!!

Delegates at the UK Public Health Association’s 17th Annual Public Health Forum will be offered 'screening' for the debilitating Carbon Dependence Syndrome in Brighton next week.

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