Timberland has partnered with Thread International to bring recycled material to their shoes. This partnership not only reduces plastic waste, but brings stable jobs to Haitian communities. – GreenBiz
New Fellow Research: Diana Ceballos
In a new study, JPB Environmental Health Fellow Diana Ceballos looks to better understand connections betweek home- and work-related exposures in high-risk communities by identifying occupation-specific of home exposure. Learn more here: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cressh/y2-pilot-project-2-of-2/
Christina H. Fuller: Air Quality and Communities in Atlanta
JPB Fellow Christina H. Fuller is an assistant professor in the Division of Environmental Health at Georgia State University’s School of Public Health where she works in the field of air quality exposure assessment and environmental epidemiology. Her research interests include outdoor air pollution, the effects of air pollution on respiratory and cardiovascular health, community-engaged research, urban health and environmental justice. Read more.
What does the end of the CA drought mean for future water use?
“[G]iven the challenges of population growth and climate change, most agree that the state will need solutions that work for everyone from the fish to the farmers—especially as Northern California literally swims in water and Southern California continues to run dry. And the other elements of the Water Resources Development Act—such as better watershed restoration, water recycling, and water storage, for instance—could go some of the way in that direction.”…
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New study finds wide racial disparity in cervical cancer deaths
“According to the analysis published Monday, the hysterectomy-corrected mortality rates put black American women on par with women living in some underdeveloped countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.” – The New York Times
One year later: evaluating the global response to Zika
We did not do “so great, according to more than a dozen public health experts who were asked to reflect on the response. The battle was a series of missed opportunities, they said, that damaged still-uncounted numbers of babies across a whole hemisphere.” – The New York Times
Are we too clean?
In a conglomeration of articles, New Scientist looks into the effects of modern cleaning on our health.
Study reveals striking disparities between urban and rural health
“When the federal government tries to address health disparities, it usually focuses on large population areas where they can get the most bang for the federal dollar … [a]nd that leaves vast areas of America without a federal or state partnership on ensuring access to care.” – The Washington Post
Rusty-patched bumblee is now an endangered species
“Pollinators are small but mighty parts of the natural mechanism that sustains us and our world…[w]ithout them, our forests, parks, meadows and shrub lands, and the abundant, vibrant life they support, cannot survive, and our crops require laborious, costly pollination by hand.” – The New York Times
President Obama reflects on his Administration’s clean energy legacy
“We have long known, on the basis of a massive scientific record, that the urgency of acting to mitigate climate change is real and cannot be ignored. In recent years, we have also seen that the economic case for action—and against inaction—is just as clear, the business case for clean energy is growing, and the trend toward a cleaner power sector can be sustained regardless of near-term federal policies.” –…
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