Highly commended in the Public Health category, BMA Medical Awards 2010 There are enormous health benefits from tackling climate change. This is the first book to set out what health practitioners…
From green to gold – Campaign for Greener Healthcare’s NHS Forest project cherry picked for National Innovation ProgrammeThe Campaign for Greener Healthcare’s project, the NHS Forest, has been chosen…
What is it?10:10 is helping to coordinate 10:10:10, the biggest-ever day of positive action on climate change, on Sunday 10 October, 2010. From sumo wrestlers cycling to training in Japan to 10,000…
To see what's being organised for the Big Climate Connection in your area, and to sign up to coordinate - or just join - the lobby in your constituency, click on the map below.By signing up you'll…
Each year the government spends more than £2 billion on food served in the public sector - schools, hospitals, care homesand the armed forces - which is not required to meet any standards. As a…
Member State governments could radically improve public health and save on health care budgets if European Union climate policy were substantially strengthened. These ground-breaking findings were…
Many of us have become so dependent on our cars they are often in every day use. Living in a city I am fortunate in that I can cycle for most of my journeys.The one step that made a big difference to…
From Health & Environment, a monthly website and e-publication about preventing harm to health from environmental contaminants. Subscribe here.---Rodney R Dietert, Professor of Immunotoxicology at…
We know that smoking tar isn’t very good for us, but what about extracting oil from it?Tar sands are large deposits of bitumen mixed with water, sand and clay. It’s more complicated, more wasteful and…
A carbon footprint study of a UK renal service published in the Quarterly Journal of Medicinethis month confirms the importance of tackling supply chain emissions, revealing that the procurement of…