Young ‘ignorant on mental health’
Almost half of all teenagers cannot name a single mental health condition, according to a poll of schoolchildren.
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Archive for September 6th, 2008
Vein tubes ‘fitted needlessly’
A third of patients have unnecessary tubes inserted into veins when they are in hospital, pharmacists have warned.
Grading Green Schools: The College Sustainability Report Card 2009
The College Sustainability Report Card 2009 is almost upon academia. It’s that dreaded time–when all those green-talking universities who haven’t put in the due legwork have to forge their parent’s signatures; when environmentally unfriendly colleges try to pencil in a line down the far right side of the ‘F.’ Yes, it’s time for the Sustainable […]
China Plans Massive $3.5 Billion GM Crops Push
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Driven by the increasingly pressing need to provide a stable food supply for its surging population (1.3 billion and growing), China has decided to engineer its own “Green Revolution” by embarking on a massive .5 billion GM crops R&D initiative, reports Science’s Richard Stone. With this new biotechnology infrastructure in place, the Chinese […]
Sunday Streets: Thousands of San Franciscans Gather on the City’s Busy Waterfront
Last Sunday morning thousands of San Franciscans converged on a four and a half mile strip of waterfront roadway. No, they weren’t protesting. Instead they were celebrating the first ever Sunday Streets, an initiative dreamed up by Mayor Gavin Newsom. The event closed a roadway running from Chinatown to Bayview, both areas […]
Nature and Stop Kingsnorth Interview James Hansen about His Clash with Big Coal
If you’re a longtime reader of this site, then you’re no doubt already aware of my — and my colleague John’s — fixation on James Hansen. While there is no lack of skilled climate scientists in the U.S., few can muster the rhetorical firepower and polit…
Our Oceans Are Dying and We’re At Fault
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The Los Angeles Times report this morning on the state of the oceans sounds like something out of a horror movie - fishermen come in contact with a spongy weed, only to break out into a painful rash that won’t go away and literally peels your skin off. Get a drop in […]
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