Activities & settings

Carbon Addict

by Frances Mortimer | Tue, 02/12/2008 - 08:49
Published by: 
The Climate Connection & The Campaign for Greener Healthcare
Publication date: 
2 Dec 2008
Resource type: 
evidence base / teaching tool
Brief description: 
The fabulous new online guide to medical management of "Carbon Dependence Syndrome". Do your patients report lengthy showers, meat bingeing and/or compulsive purchase of consumer goods? Asthma? Mental distress? Diabetes? Problem use of carbon-based fuels is now recognised as a disabling medical syndrome.
External URL: 
http://www.carbonaddict.org/
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Free screenings of The Age of Stupid for the NHS

by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 03/07/2009 - 17:24

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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Screening for Carbon Dependence Syndrome hailed a success!

by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 27/03/2009 - 17:44

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

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Carbon Dependency damages your health!!

by Frances Mortimer | Fri, 20/03/2009 - 16:49

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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Sustainable Communities Act public meeting

by Frances Mortimer | Mon, 09/02/2009 - 17:45
10/02/2009 - 19:00 - 21:00
Local Works
London
http://www.localworks.org
Local Works public meeting about the Sustainable Communities Act, held at the Houses of Parliament.
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Commissioning for sustainability

by muir | Tue, 02/12/2008 - 14:31
“5 o’clock this afternoon, that’s my only bloody objective”, replied the GP when I asked him about his five year objectives. The health service operates on a very short time horizon; today, this month and this year are the limits of time for those who manage healthcare.
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