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BMJ Blogs on Sustainability: What has Climate Change got to do with Mental Health?

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18 Sep 2014
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Mary Zacaroli
Daniel Maughan, the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Sustainability Fellowlooks at the evidence of how climate change is impacting on mental healthin the latest BMJ Blog coordinated by the Centre for…
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NHS Forest is shortlisted for HSJ Awards!

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17 Sep 2014
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Ingeborg Steinbach
The NHS Forest has been shortlisted for an HSJ award in the "Improving Environmental and Social Sustainability Category". With over 1300 entries this year we are very pleased to have got through the…
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Groups with 11m supporters call on David Cameron to lead at UN Climate Summit

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17 Sep 2014
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Ingeborg Steinbach
The UK’s leading environmental and development groups have been joined by the IKEA Group, the National Trust, Unilever and the Women’s Institute in calling on David Cameron to speak out at the UN…
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Upgrade of our Australian Green Dialysis website

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16 Sep 2014
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John Agar
Dear 'Green' UK ... This is to let your members know that we launched an update/upgrade of our Australian Green Dialysis website during 'Renal Week', a 5 day meeting that encompassed the 50th…
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New report links wellbeing to active commutes

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15 Sep 2014
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Jacqueline Cutting
A new report from from UEA's Norwich Medical School and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York shows that people's wellbeing is improved if they walk or cycle to work - or even take…
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Committee on Climate Change report and SDU call for NHS feedback on overheating in wards

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15 Sep 2014
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Jacqueline Cutting
The Committee on Climate Change has produced a recent report entitled 'Managing climate risks to well-being and the economy' The report investigates the threats and opportunities for the country…
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Climate Fiction Will Reinforce Existing Views

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30 Jul 2014
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Judith Anderson
Interesting article by George Marshall in New York Times in run up to release of his new book Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate…
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Why aren't we talking more about climate change?

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30 Jul 2014
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This year has been an interesting year for weather, from terrible floods to wonderful heat waves. Do we have to accept that from now on weather systems are going to become more unstable? If we do, how…
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The Men Who Made Us Spend

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14 Jul 2014
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Ben Whittaker
The Men Who Made Us Spend is a thought provoking series about consumerism: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zxm9b It made me consider again the occupational meaning of what we buy and how we buy. A…
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Boiler on Prescription

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8 Jul 2014
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In late 2011, while making coffee in our staff kitchen, I happened to ask my Director, Sally Hancox, “Do you think we’ve stopped folk turning up as much at their Doctors, now they have had the home…