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Children at the Center
Climate change is not a distant problem for children to face someday. It is already shaping the places where children grow, learn, and play. From the air they breathe and water they drink to their homes, schools, and playgrounds…
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Local Action Is Still My Reason for Climate Optimism
Hello again, Climate for Health community. Almost five years ago, when I was newly at the helm of the American Public Health Association’s Center for Climate, Health and Equity, I introduced myself to you the same way I’m about to now: by answering the question I get asked more than any other. Where do you…
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Climate Solutions to Build Health Equity and Community Ownership
The path to climate and health solutions must balance thoughtful consideration of justice and equity issues and rapid implementation of essential mitigation and adaptation strategies…
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Climate Solutions Benefit Children in Environmental Justice Communities
Almost ten years ago, I met Ms. Loretta Slater who had just lost her only daughter, Whitney, to breast cancer at the age of 21, after battling the disease for two years. Ms. Loretta often shares the story of how her daughter was raised in one of the countless environmental justice communities. She often talks…
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Phoenix Plants Hedges to Reduce Air Pollution Exposure for Kids
When the city of Phoenix partnered with Paideia Academies on a green infrastructure project, they anticipated some of the outcomes — like decreased pollutant levels and safer conditions for outdoor play — but the benefits of the project reached far beyond what was anticipated.
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A climate advocacy tool you’re not yet using – but should be!
Climate change isn’t coming for our children- It’s here. With the newly released UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report, issuing a ‘code red for humanity,’ and recent headlining wildfires, floods, and other climate-change-related tragedies, the need to act on climate has never been more urgent. As Deputy Director of the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN),…
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New piece in the Journal of Environmental Health, “Local Action, National Impact”
Well designed, implemented, and communicated initiatives can be like a pebble in a pond. They can ripple out to affect initiatives by other environmental health professionals, organizations, and communities, ultimately leading to national impact. All environmental health professionals can amplify their impact by broadening their perspectives and outreach.
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Recording Now Available: How Doctors are Treating Patients by Treating Climate Change
Doctors know how to fight disease to keep their patients safe. From infectious disease to preventing strokes, they are constantly trying to stay ahead of the next big health risk. But what happens when the climate starts making patients sick? How can modern medicine even approach a problem as big as climate change and what…
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Children’s Environmental Health Day Proclamations: A Tool for Climate Action
Children’s Environmental Health Day is an annual celebration of children’s environmental health successes and a day to raise the visibility of issues and challenges in the field. It’s also a day to drive collective action to address the big challenges facing our little ones. In a special episode of Let’s Talk Climate, Climate for Health…
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Back to School: Nursing Leadership on Climate Solutions in the Classroom
Nurses are the most trusted leaders on climate solutions. As the 2021 school year starts, we have an incredible opportunity to support youth leadership on climate action, and incorporate climate education and health equity into curricula. Tune into this episode of Let’s Talk Climate, co-hosted with the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments (ANHE) with…
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HHS Establishes the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity
On Monday, August 30, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the creation of the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity (OCCHE). This is the first national office to address climate change and health equity as its core mission, and was created in response to President Joe Biden’s Executive Order Tackling the Climate Crisis…
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New Resource from Trust for America’s Health, “Climate Change & Health: Assessing State Preparedness”
This week, Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) released the first two pieces in its new series of case studies that examine efforts by states or localities to conceptualize and implement climate-adaptation policies and programs that center equity. TFAH aims to help make health equity a foundational principle of policymaking at all levels, including in climate policies. The…
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Want Doctors to Practice Planetary Health? Teach Advocacy Better. Here’s How…
Climate change offers healthcare providers “the greatest opportunity to redefine the social and environmental determinants of health” in the 21st century. Medical schools and graduate medical education programs can empower physicians to take this on by ensuring their curricula include robust, structured and practical advocacy training. There is no time like the present.
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New Let’s Talk Climate episode, “Climate Change & Health Equity: Addressing Local Air Pollution”
This special episode of Let’s Talk Climate digs into research from the Environmental Defense Fund that explores the local impacts of air pollution, and the resultant health disparities. Dr. Elena Craft, Senior Director of Climate and Health, outlines findings, and provides examples for climate action that improves air quality & increases health equity.
