EcoTech Note: We seldom write about the fourth policy area supported by CCL – “Healthy Forests.” Forests are a natural carbon sink, with nature helping with “carbon capture” and bring NET-zero goals closer. Here’s an effort that seeks to measure the health effects on nearby residents.
Why do some innovations spread so swiftly and others slowly?
Consider the very different trajectories of surgical anesthesia and antiseptics, both of which were discovered in the 19th century. Surgical anesthesia caught on much quicker than antiseptics. So what were the key differences?
republished from the lasvegassun.com By Joanne Leovy | Oct. 30th, 2022 My clinic schedule was full:a teen was missing summer school due to an asthma flare, a young woman had questions about her early pregnancy, an…
from Bill McKibben’s substack post “Big Oil is addicted, but it’s killing the rest of us”
Yesterday afternoon, the British medical journal The Lancet published a vast and remarkable assessment of the health impacts of climate change.
CCL-Las Vegas Group Leader, Dr. Joanne Leovy, has been invited to speak at one of these two events in early May, each addressing the health effects of climate change. CCLers and their friends welcome!
Join Zoominar with CCL Vegas member Dr. Jacob Altholz and Group Leader Dr. Joanne Leovy discussing the health effects of excess heat for the Southern Nevada group of the Sierra Club
Rising temperatures threaten ‘catastrophic harm to health that will be impossible to reverse,’ editors of 220 journals from around the world say.
