by guest writer Dr. Kevin Danaher, San Francisco Department of the Environment
Despite the bad news about the environment— depletion of clean air, water and soil, extreme weather events that damage infrastructure and kill people, the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps, rising oceans levels—we are seeing an encouraging cross-fertilization between the green economy […]
Mitt Romney has already ceded the 11 electoral college votes that Massachusetts has to offer to President Obama, despite Massachusetts being Romney’s home state. Romney trails Obama in Romney’s home state by over 20 points in recent polls, indicating just how far from his roots he has come in order to curry favor with the […]
Just yesterday, MSNBC covered a story about the Pacific Garbage Patch having grown 100-fold in the last 40 years. In places in the gyre, as it’s called, there are 46 times more plastic bits than there is plankton. Plastic does not biodegrade and persists in the environment for eons, so seeing a pile […]
Jobs are being created. Consumer confidence remains high. Housing starts are up for the first time in years. The global financial markets are, for the time being, stabilized. All of these are good signs if you are the campaign staff for Barack Obama. Sitting presidents tend to do better when the economy is going well, […]
A recent TedX talk on regenerative capitalism caught my eye. The talk was by Michael Kramer, Managing Partner of Natural Investments, a socially responsible investment firm. Regenerative capitalism goes beyond sustainability, because if we just sustain where we are, we’re not making progress. We all know the challenges in changing […]
In 2010 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law by President Barack Obama. Here is a quick look at many of the provisions that have already gone into effect.
· Children under the age 19 cannot be denied health insurance for a pre-existing condition. · Young people can stay […]
A Kaiser Family Foundation report shows the average health care spending by age group in 2006. The report also showed the concentration of health care spending, “almost half of all health care spending was used to treat just 5% of the population.” The bottom 50% of patients was responsible for only 3.2% of total health […]
There are many ways to compare different health care systems. The 2010 World Health Statistics report from the World Health Organization (WHO) measures many factors in various countries around the world.
Is cost the best measure of quality health care? Health care costs in Canada are 61% of the […]
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