The evolution of thinking about energy is discussed. When the authors began collaborating 20 years ago, energy was typically considered from a growth-oriented, supply-side perspective, with a focus on consumption trends and how to expand supplies to meet rising demand. They were deeply troubled by the environmental, security and equity implications of that approach. For instance, about two bill...

The challenges and benefits of a formal mentoring program are considered within the context of learning organizations: specifically, graduate medical education and professional development. While no single definition addresses every aspect of mentoring, this process is a distinct one with established traditions and expectations. The core requirements of attraction, action and affect remain and ...

1 The presidential addresses of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) of the past decade convey a consistency of format and themes. They highlight significant weaknesses in some of the basic questions and methodologies of psychotherapy researchers. These include neglect of topics concerning the understanding of change and over-valuation of the randomized clinical trial (RCT). Although va...

The world around us is changing and Environmental Health Perspectives (EHI7 continues to change with it. The past several years have seen a growing recognition of the connections between the environment and human health, as well as the globalization of environmental health problems. EHP has responded by expanding its own definition of environmental health to reflect those connections and to add...

 2004 Commonwealth of Australia Funded under the Australian National Training Authority (ANTA) Adult Literacy National Project by the Commonwealth through the Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). Published by the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). THE WORLD HAS changed profoundly over the last 50 years, and many of our longstanding assumptions about lit...

Neither the sun, nor death, can be looked at with a steady eye Duc de La Rochefoucauld (Maxims) In the Editorial which accompanied the mini supplement on the 'Patients Voice', I looked back into the past and made some brief speculations about what the next thousand years might bring. There is no doubt that epilepsy is moving forward; we have gained a great deal of knowledge in the last 10–20 ye...