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Surgeon General’s Prescription for Health: Walk More
Surgeon General’s Prescription for Health: Walk More Walking image via forklift/flickr. Reproduced at Resilience.org. We’ve always known walking is good for us— it burns calories, reduces stress and helps the environment. But we never knew how really great it is for us until the just released Call to Action on Walking from US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, […]
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Community, Health and Enterprise
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Community, Health and Enterprise What are you doing every day to build community, health and productive enterprises? Every month I have wide-ranging conversations with three long-time collaborators: Gordon T. Long of Macro Analytics, Chris Martenson of Peak Prosperity, and Drew Sample of The Sample Hour. I do dozens of interviews in the course […]
The Anglo-American empire is preparing for resource war
The Anglo-American empire is preparing for resource war The control of resources remains a core factor in US considerations for sustaining global US hegemony in the face of rising geopolitical influence of its major rivals Last week, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff released the new National Military Strategy of the United States of America, 2015. The […]
Energy Files: Defra report reveals extent of impacts on people living near fracking wells
Energy Files: Defra report reveals extent of impacts on people living near fracking wells People that live near fracking sites could be affected by health problems and financial hardships – and fracking might not even help climate change – a government report has revealed. The report – which was initially heavily redacted but has now been […]
Mercury levels still rising near Grassy Narrows First Nation, report says
Mercury levels still rising near Grassy Narrows First Nation, report says 50-year-old contamination that was never cleaned up still polluting water and fish, report says Fifty years after a Dryden pulp mill dumped its effluent into a northern Ontario watershed, mercury continues to rise in some lakes, according to a study commissioned by the provincial government […]
An Accidental Trip to the Apothecary
An Accidental Trip to the Apothecary I confess…..every so often I manufacture an important excuse to get off the mountain. Our household joke is for me to “air out” once a month whether I need it or not lol. Recently it was time once again. My vital task that morning was to hit the nurseries for final […]
The Cost of China’s Industrialization: 700 Million People with Diabesity /Cancer /Lung Disease and 225 Million with Mental Disorders
The Cost of China’s Industrialization: 700 Million People with Diabesity /Cancer /Lung Disease and 225 Million with Mental Disorders That the China Story is going to implode is already baked into the public health catastrophe that will unfold with a vengeance in the coming decade. The financial pundits gushing over “The China Story”–that the Middle […]
Arguments against GMOs
Arguments against GMOs I recently decided to take an epidemiology course to fill in gaps in my knowledge base. The entire online graduate certificate in Environmental Health looked interesting, so I applied for the entire certificate. Environmental Health was the first course that I took online at this flagship Florida university. The online experience would […]
Joel Salatin: How food can restore America’s integrity
Joel Salatin: How food can restore America’s integrity While I was in Australia in February, imported Chinese raspberries carrying Hepatitis A (from human sewage) hospitalized a dozen people and heightened interest in my seminars to a fever pitch. The news media and individuals fell over themselves trying to learn about local food systems and integrity […]
Sand-nado – Beijing Battered By Blanket Of Red Dust
Sand-nado – Beijing Battered By Blanket Of Red Dust In yet another ripped from the movies-screen-esque event, Beijing was brought to a standstill today as a massive Interstellar-like sandstorm covered the Chinese capital in thick blanket of red dust, sparking social media discussions of the end of the world. As RT reports, The China Meteorological Administration issued a […]
Fracking Increases Radon Gas Hazard, US Study Finds
Fracking Increases Radon Gas Hazard, US Study Finds Levels of the carcinogenic gas rising in Pennsylvanian homes near industry sites. Another major U.S. health study has found that the hydraulic fracking of unconventional rock formations can liberate and accelerate the release of radon, a highly carcinogenic gas. Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public […]
Have you done the Transition Health Check yet?
Have you done the Transition Health Check yet? Believe or not the Transition Health Check is not about measuring everyone’s blood pressure in your Transition group or seeing how fit you all are. It’s actually a great tool for you to use to see how your group is doing, one that many Transition groups have already found […]
Fear of Terrorism Can Destroy Your Health … But There’s Good News
Fear of Terrorism Can Destroy Your Health … But There’s Good News Fear of terrorism can kill you: A new study has found that long-term exposure to the threat of terrorism can elevate people’s resting heart rates and increase their risk of dying. The study of more than 17,000 Israelis is the first statistics-based study, and […]
Yellowknife latest city to recognize citizens’ right to live in a healthy environment | News
Yellowknife latest city to recognize citizens’ right to live in a healthy environment | News. City joins Richmond, The Pas, Vancouver and Montreal in standing up for citizens’ right to have a say in decisions that affect the people and places they love On December 8, Yellowknife became the fifth city in Canada to recognize […]
