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New Article in the Journal of Environmental Health, “Staying Cool in a Changing Climate: Caring for Health in Extreme Heat”
ecoAmerica’s column in the National Environmental Health Association’s Journal of Environmental Health, “Staying Cool in a Changing Climate: Caring for Health in Extreme Heat” by Nicole Hill, MPH, and Ben Fulgencio-Turner, MPP, CPH is now available in the July/August 2023 issue…
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Reduce Emissions: Let’s Use Public Transport
As the world marked World Environment Day on the 5th of June, with the theme #BeatPlasticPollution, it is also very important to factor in other pollutants which might be deadlier…
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Let’s Talk Climate: From Classrooms to Climate Action: Mobilizing Student Nurses
Nurses are the most trusted profession in the country and see the effects of climate change on their patients’ health every day…
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Children and Youth Fighting for a Healthy Future
A momentous event for the State of Montana (U.S.) occurred this June – the first constitutional climate change case in the United States. Rikki Held vs. the State of Montana, the trial where 16 youth plaintiffs sued the state government for the right to a clean and healthful environment for current and future generations, created…
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NACHC: The First Net-Zero Energy Health Center in the US is Here
The National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) is the national association for community health centers, advocating and promoting quality, affordable health care services for over 30 million Americans…
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Introducing CfH Health Equity Fellow Sweta Waghela
Warm greetings to all! I am incredibly excited to start this new chapter in my life, joining the ecoAmerica Climate for Health team as a Health Equity Fellow…
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Neurosurgery and Our Changing Climate: Why Global Warming Matters to Neurosurgeons
These are just a few examples of neurosurgical patients whose lives have been forever altered from climate-related changes. More and more, we’re seeing global changes that impact neurosurgical conditions…
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Let’s Talk Climate: Front Line Clinics & Climate Resilience
Community Health Centers are a service and resiliency hub for tens of millions of Americans. During a climate-related disaster…
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Are We Preparing the US Healthcare System for Climate Change?
We are dealing with a two-fold crisis of ill preparedness in the United States. An aging and increasingly economically disparate population that has complex chronic medical conditions…
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New Article in the Journal of Environmental Health, “The Climate World Is Changing, So Can We”
Over the past century, the world has experienced a dramatic increase in emissions from burning fossil fuels, resulting in changes to the climate across the globe (Lindsey, 2022). We know that the outcome of these changes on human health is far-reaching, with every child around the world at risk from at least one climate change…
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Let’s Talk Climate: ClimateRx
Clinicians and public health workers are in the front lines of the climate crisis, seeing the real impacts on patients and communities. But it can be difficult to engage with others about these facts…
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Reflections on COP27
It is an understatement to say that attending the United Nations Convention of Parties conference, also known as COP can be an overwhelming and humbling experience. Now in its 27th year, stakeholders gather from every part of the world to try to come to an agreement on the path forward to tackling climate change. Outside…
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Let’s Talk Climate: How Kaiser Permanente is Leading and Engaging on Climate Solutions
In this episode of Let’s Talk Climate, two leaders from Kaiser Permanente join us to discuss how patients and providers have experienced climate change, and the actions that they are taking: Seema Wadwha, the Executive Director of Environmental Stewardship at Kaiser Permanente and Dr. Colin Cave, the Medical Director of External Affairs, Government Relations and…
