]> http://www.greenedia.com/tags/environmental-health Blog Articles Tagged with 'environmental-health' at http://www.greenedia.com en http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/154527?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Image courtesy of California Safe SchoolsTo celebrate its 10th anniversary, the California Safe Schools organization gathered luminaries of the environmental health and children's education world together for a program called Your Life is Now. The ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/154527?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:30:15 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/151906?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health In electing Barack Obama to be the 44th president of the United States, many important real and symbolic transformations occurred, among them a call for a new green economy. The president elect has promised a $150 billion Apollo Project, a new ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/151906?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:47:04 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/150640?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health All the coal money in the world can't cover up the fact that coal fired power plants are one of our dirtiest and most dangerous energy sources.Coal-fired power plants are the United States' single biggest sources ofglobal warming pollution (2,134.1 m... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/150640?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:39:11 -0500 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/142839?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Nourishing a Healthy Society: Holistic WellnessThis piece is part of a series on how universities and colleges around the world are integrating theories of sustainability into traditional majors to give students the skills they need to build a more s... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/142839?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:00:11 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/142246?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Sustainablog suggests ten ways to change the world through social media.Salon interviews British journalist Rose George about environmental health issues connected with human waste.It's Getting Hot in Here blogs about what green jobs could do for Nav... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/142246?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:52:14 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/142540?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Sustainablog suggests ten ways to change the world through social media.Salon interviews British journalist Rose George about environmental health issues connected with human waste.It's Getting Hot in Here blogs about what green jobs could do for Nav... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/142540?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:52:14 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/140597?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health It has been a while since I blogged on Switchboard, but it's good to be back. This summer, after 12 years as a Senior Scientist at NRDC, I took a four month sabbatical. It wasn't exactly relaxing, since I used the time for Spanish immersion in Guatem... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/140597?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:13:02 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/141286?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health It has been a while since I blogged on Switchboard, but it's good to be back. This summer, after 12 years as a Senior Scientist at NRDC, I took a four month sabbatical. It wasn't exactly relaxing, since I used the time for Spanish immersion in Guatem... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/141286?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:13:02 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/136770?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health This article was written by Erica Barnett in January 2008. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective. Every year, more than a quarter of the food in the United States' food system goes to waste. (In the UK, it's a t... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/136770?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:58:46 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/136372?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health This article was written by Erica Barnett in November 2007. We're republishing it here as part of our month-long editorial retrospective.As someone who's used cosmetics since early adolescence (I'm from Texas, okay?), I'm particularly horrified by t... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/world-is-changing/136372?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:24:02 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/135636?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health I regularly get calls from people around the country, from the east coast to the west coast and many places in between, concerned about the health risks of the oil and gas activities that are coming to their communities as part of the national ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/135636?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:18:50 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/136203?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health I regularly get calls from people around the country, from the east coast to the west coast and many places in between, concerned about the health risks of the oil and gas activities that are coming to their communities as part of the national ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/136203?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:18:50 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/134821?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Image source: Chicago Climate Action PlanMayor Richard M. Daly laid out a plan to cut Chicago's emissions to 3/4 of 1990 levels by 2020, announced yesterday in an ambitious and comprehensive Chicago Climate Change Action Plan, reports Chicago's NBC5.... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/134821?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:20:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/134542?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Image source: Bonterra Greens the GreensGolf courses looking to go green can look no further than Audubon International. From now until the end of this PGA season, for the first 100 golf courses that sign up at Bonterra Greens the Greens, Bonterra wi... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/134542?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:00:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/133324?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health By Russ WalkerAward-winning environment reporter Marla Cone is leaving the Los Angeles Times to join the ranks of nonprofit journalism, becoming the top editor of Environmental Health News starting today. Cone, whose work at the L.A. Times include... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/133324?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:37:52 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/128455?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Two years ago, while taking a year off to get a master's degree at Columbia University (yeah, some year off ), I took a fascinating class on the public health impacts of climate change -- a rapidly emerging field that's just now beginning to get the... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/128455?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:56:14 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/128749?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Two years ago, while taking a year off to get a master's degree at Columbia University (yeah, some year off ), I took a fascinating class on the public health impacts of climate change -- a rapidly emerging field that's just now beginning to get the... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/switchboard/128749?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:56:14 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/124017?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health I'm heading down to Wilmington, NC later today for Camp Resources XV:Camp Resources is a summer workshop which provides an opportunity todiscuss research underway on resource and environmental economics. Thefocus of the workshop is on graduate studen... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/environmental-economics/124017?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:38:00 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/123859?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Dell has set some pretty aggressive green goals for itself in the past few years, and we're happy to learn that it wasn't just talk. How Dell Became Carbon NeutralThe big one is that they are now completely carbon neutral when it comes to their energ... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/treehugger/123859?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:38:01 -0400 http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/123317?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health By David RobertsJohn Stauber on MoveOn et al: MoveOn has fallen into the same top-down rut that all the big national public interest and environmental groups are in. MoveOn raises millions and millions of dollars each year, but the dollars go into... http://www.greenedia.com/sectors/directory/gristmill/123317?rsstype=tag&tag=environmental-health Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:15:27 -0400