Climate change is already making us sick

Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?

Unnatural Causes, a documentary series scheduled for release this fall, will present for the first time on American television an investigation of the sources of our huge and alarming socioeconomic and racial disparities in health. The seven-part, 4-hour documentary series will be available on DVD from California Newsreel (www.newsreel. org) and will be broadcast in the United States by Public ...

Knowing Which Foods Are Making Us Sick

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Are health economics making us sick?

What's Out There Making Us Sick?

Throughout the continuum of medical and scientific history, repeated evidence has confirmed that the main etiological determinants of disease are nutritional deficiency, toxicant exposures, genetic predisposition, infectious agents, and psychological dysfunction. Contemporary conventional medicine generally operates within a genetic predestination paradigm, attributing most chronic and degenera...

US Climate Change Policy Efforts

for Strategic Environmental Research (Mistra), focuses on future international policies in the area of climate change. Carried out by a consortium of universities, think tanks and non-governmental organisations in Europe, India and the US, the main aim of the programme is directed towards the use of economic incentives and instruments in the implementation of climate policies, and towards the d...