Category Archives: environmental health

Eat less meat and save the planet?

October 17, 2009 – 9:16 am

An argument for eating less meat for the sake of planetary and personal health is made at the public health blog, The Pump Handle.
The author is Liz Borkowski who works for the Project on Scientific Knowledge and Public Policy at George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Services.

By Croakey | Also posted in Food, public health | Tagged global warming, meat | Comments (1)

What does the dust storm mean for our health? An inside view

September 23, 2009 – 9:46 am

Ben Harris-Roxas is an expert in health impact assessment. After waking to this view this morning in Sydney, he’s been investigating the impact of dust storms on health.
He writes:
“Sydneysiders awoke to a red glow this morning and opened their curtains to find that the city had been shrouded in a dust storm, blown in [...]