Grist | Topics | 725 Results

RESULTS		Results 326 – 350 of 725
Page:1 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 29
Headline	Author	Published	Section
Sense and Sensitivities Multiple Chemical Sensitivities can drive sufferers into poverty as well as ill health	Todd Hymas	17 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Consider the trappings of modern life: Calvin Klein Eternity, gasoline, Gore-Tex, Aveda hairspray, paint, particle board, polyurethane iPod cases. Is this the face of the future? Photo: iStockphoto. Now imagine that you're allergic to virtually all of them. Environmentalists usually think about chemical toxicity as either a dramatic local crisis (Bhopal, Lo ...
Topics: air pollution, environmental justice, green living, health, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Fit to Be Ride Francisca Porchas, clean-bus campaigner, answers readers' questions		17 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Francisca Porchas of the Bus Riders Union. How is your organization working with the state of California and the feds to bring cleaner transportation options to your communities? I noted that you mentioned gas-powered buses -- how many? -- Bill Turner, Dillsburg, Pa. Our main focus to this day has been working with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, an agency with an annual budget of $3 bill ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, InterActivist, interview, Mexico, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Pyramid Schemes A little time in the lab could teach big business how to help the poor	John Elkington, Mark Lee	14 Mar 2006	Full Disclosure
By John Elkington and Mark Lee 14 Mar 2006
Topics: business, environmental justice, Full Disclosure, health, politics, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Justice in Time Meet Robert Bullard, the father of environmental justice	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Robert Bullard says he was "drafted" into environmental justice while working as an environmental sociologist in Houston in the late 1970s. His work there on the siting of garbage dumps in black neighborhoods identified systematic patterns of injustice. The book that Bullard eventually wrote about that work, 1990's Dumping in Dixie, is widely regarded as the first to fully articulate t ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Here We Go Again Robert Bullard explains why the response to Katrina wasn't a fluke	Gregory Dicum	14 Mar 2006	Main Dish
In the course of my interview with environmental-justice scholar and leader Robert Bullard, we discussed his current work on the history of environmental racism in the South. He had plenty to say about the ways that inadequate government response to disasters has affected people of color over the past seven decades. I asked him whether Katrina was part of the norm or stood out somehow ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Louisiana, politics, Poverty and the Environment, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

The Bus Stops Here Francisca Porchas, clean-bus campaigner, answers Grist's questions		13 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Francisca Porchas. What work do you do? I am a lead organizer with the Labor/Community Strategy Center and the Bus Riders Union's Clean Air, Clean Lungs, Clean Buses Campaign, based in Los Angeles. How does it relate to the environment? The Strategy Center has engaged in environmental-justice and civil-rights campaigns for the last 17 years, combining grassroots organizing and policy work with a str ...
Topics: air pollution, California, environmental justice, grassroots activism, health, InterActivist, interview, Mexico, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Sand Trap Cancers, other diseases rising near Alberta oil sands		13 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Sand Trap Cancers, other diseases rising near Alberta oil sands Illnesses including leukemia and lymphomas are cropping up at greater than expected rates in a First Nations community near oil sands in Canada's Alberta province. Elders at Fort Chipewyan say incidence of disease started rising when the oil industry started extracting and processing hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil a day near their comm ...
Topics: Alberta, energy, health, news, oil, oil sands (all these topics)

Something Fishy: Fish and RIPs Tips on seafood consumption from a seafaring wench	Sarah van Schagen	09 Mar 2006	Gristmill
Ahoy there, fellow poop-deckers! I hope the fair seas have treated ye well since me last arrrr-ticle. This one, dear mateys, will focus on grub -- that's food to you landlubbers -- specifically seafood. There's been much to-do lately on mercury advisories and the safety of sushi, so how's a seadog to know what's safe to eat, what's caught (or farmed) sustainably, and what's not? But before I delve into the murky waters of seafood safety, I've a message for any bilg ...
Topics: aquaculture, fishing, food, health, mercury, oceans (all these topics)

Walking the Line What Mexican activists can teach the U.S. about poverty and the planet	Oliver Bernstein	07 Mar 2006	Soapbox
As the border organizer for Sierra Club's Environmental Justice program, I bounce back and forth across the U.S.-Mexico border supporting grassroots environmental activists. More than the food, language, or currency, the biggest difference from one side to the other is what issues are considered "environmental." Perhaps nowhere else on earth is there such a long borde ...
Topics: environmental justice, health, Mexico, politics, population, Poverty and the Environment, Sierra Club, sprawl, United States, waste, water conflicts (all these topics)

Chew Magna Cum Laude Village aims to be the greenest in England		06 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Chew Magna Cum Laude Village aims to be the greenest in England An English town with the wholly delightful name of Chew Magna is in the running for greenest village of them all. With a population of 1,100, it's located in a wider community that's committed itself to achieving zero waste, recycling everything from mobiles (cell phones) to spectacles (glasses). But Chew Magna has gone many steps further: Their Go Zero campaign has prod ...
Topics: England, health, news (all these topics)

Wallet and Grimace Stats on how much Americans pay for essentials	Todd Hymas	03 Mar 2006	Counter Culture
$1.99 -- price of a gallon of 1% milk at Fred Meyer, a big-box chain store, in Seattle $5.69 -- price of a gallon of organic 1% milk at Whole Foods in Seattle $4.29 -- price of a Big Mac Extra Value Meal at a Seattle McDonald's (Big Mac, medium fries, medium soft drink) Drink up! Photo: iStockphoto. $3.65 -- price of a venti (large) latte with organic milk at a Seattle Starbucks 38.7 -- average percentage ...
Topics: consumerism, green living, health, lists, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Laid to Waste Portraits of loss in the wake of Katrina	Chris Jordan	02 Mar 2006	Main Dish
Click image to watch slide show. Photo by Chris Jordan. On a misty November morning in 2005, I was photographing in New Orleans' Ninth Ward neighborhood a few blocks from where one of the levees had failed 10 weeks earlier. Squatting in a driveway in foul-smelling mud, adjusting the knobs on my camera, I stood up to stretch my back and noticed a man sitting on some concrete s ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, environmental justice, health, Louisiana, Poverty and the Environment (all these topics)

Finger-Lickin' Bad How poultry producers are ravaging the rural South	Suzi Parker	21 Feb 2006	Main Dish
A person driving through the South might notice the chicken houses dotting the hills and flatlands. He might marvel at the larger ones, as long as a football field. He might react to their gagging stench for a moment, and then forget as he travels on. But those who live near the structures -- stuffed with as many as 25,000 chickens each -- combat the odor and health hazards daily. Not yer pappy's chi ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, air pollution, Alabama, Arkansas, environmental justice, health, Oklahoma, Poverty and the Environment, state politics (all these topics)

Moving Mountains Mountaintop-removal mining is devastating Appalachia, but residents are fighting back	Erik Reece	16 Feb 2006	Main Dish
This article was originally published in Orion Magazine. Not since the glaciers pushed toward these ridgelines a million years ago have the Appalachian Mountains been as threatened as they are today. But the coal-extraction process decimating this landscape, known as mountaintop removal, has generated little press beyond the region. A mountaintop no more. Photo: Viv ...
Topics: Appalachia, coal, energy, environmental justice, health, Kentucky, mining, Poverty and the Environment, Virginia, West Virginia (all these topics)

Last run	Sarah van Schagen	14 Feb 2006	Gristmill
I ran into an interesting news bit this morning while perusing the headlines. Actually, I didn't run. Not much of a runner, me. But I hear it's a great way to get healthy. Does wonders for the heart and the lungs and that fat roll hanging over your jeans (you know what I'm talking about). And marathon runners? You gotta admire them. Imagine how healthy those lungs are after running 26.2 miles! Unless, of course, you run those 26.2 miles in Hong Kong on a day with v ...
Topics: air pollution, health, Hong Kong (all these topics)

Bodies, Asbestos, and Motion Controversial bill to create asbestos trust fund moves ahead in Senate		08 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Bodies, Asbestos, and Motion Controversial bill to create asbestos trust fund moves ahead in Senate An epic drama is playing out in the U.S. Capitol over ... asbestos. Seriously. A bill -- which, after a 98 to 1 vote in the Senate yesterday, will now move to the floor for debate -- would create a $140 billion industry-financed trust fund for victims of asbestos-related illness, but would ...
Topics: environmental justice, Harry Reid, health, news, politics, toxics (all these topics)

That'll Teach You to Put Pee in Frogs Lethal frog fungus spread by pregnancy test, researchers suspect		07 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
That'll Teach You to Put Pee in Frogs Lethal frog fungus spread by pregnancy test, researchers suspect Weird non sequitur of the day: A skin fungus that's killing off frogs worldwide may have been spread by a pregnancy test. Yeah, we got that same confused look. A few decades ago, African clawed frogs were used to detect pregnancy -- with surprising accuracy. The hopper would be injected with a woman's urine, and if she was preggers ...
Topics: health, news, wildlife (all these topics)

If not suburbs, then what? Only concrete alternatives will cajole people out of the suburbs	David Roberts	25 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Often, the first step to helping people make better choices is showing them that there are choices. One of the biggest and most important -- albeit frequently overlooked -- steps toward combating global warming, improving public health, reducing air pollution, and restoring a sense of community and fellow-feeling to American life is changing the structure of our communities. Right now, conventional wisdom is that the choice is between suburbs -- big houses, plenty ...
Topics: consumerism, green living, health, placemaking (all these topics)

We're No. 28! U.S. environmental performance ranks below Malaysia, Chile, 25 others		23 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
We're No. 28! U.S. environmental performance ranks below Malaysia, Chile, 25 others We beat Cyprus! Yeah, boyee! The Mediterranean island nation comes in at 29th in a landmark pilot study ranking countries by their environmental performance. The U.S. comes in at a blazing 28th -- just behind most of Western Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Chile, and, uh, Slovakia. The 2006 Environmental Performance In ...
Topics: health, New Zealand, news, United States (all these topics)

Trans-fat riddle How can junk-food makers label goods laden with partically hydrogenated oil	Tom Philpott	13 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Long a staple of industrial food processors, partially hydrogenated oils are widely known to have health-ruining effects. After decades of looking the other way as study after study emerged documenting this phenomenon, the FDA is finally making moves to at least encourage consumers to avoid them. The industry is already retrenching, removing the vile stuff from popular junk-food products, often heralded by a '0 Grams Trans Fat' label on the package. Restaurant chains ...
Topics: food, Food and Drug Administration, health (all these topics)

Party In My Pants Reuseable menstrual pads are P.I.M.P.-in'	Sarah K. Burkhalter	02 Jan 2006	Gristmill
Squeamish boys should read no further. Sorry, fellas, it's not that kind of party. As Umbra has pointed out, a lady's monthly menses doesn't have to be an environmental catastrophe (emotional catastrophe is another matter). Instead, it can be a party! It can be a Party in My Pants! It can be PIMPin', though in this case Jay-Z-style Big PIMPin' might be less than desirable. Enthusiastic Grist reader Elka alerted us to this undercover fashion statement, pondering, ...
Topics: health, waste (all these topics)

Needle in the hay Avian-flu vaccine might or might not work	Katharine Wroth	09 Dec 2005	Gristmill
You might have seen our recent counter culture on avian flu, the latest head-scratcher for conservation-medicine buffs. In that article, we said there was no successful vaccine to fight the disease. That's still true, but the U.S. is stockpiling one that 'might' work. 'I think the vaccine would give you partial protection,' said its creator, Robert Webster. 'It would probably protect you from death. You would probably get very sick but not die.' But don't count you ...
Topics: health (all these topics)

Flu the Coop Fast facts about avian influenza	Sarah Kraybill	08 Dec 2005	Counter Culture
Photo: iStockphoto. 3 -- types of influenza virus (A, B, C)1 1 -- type that can cause pandemics (A)1 1 -- A-virus subtype currently freaking the world out (H5N1)1, 2 0 -- successful vaccines against H5N1 avian flu currently available3 18 -- people infected by avian flu in Hong Kong in 1997, the first case of direct spread from birds to humans1, 4 6 -- people who died of avian flu in Hong Kong in 19971 5 -- years after fi ...
Topics: health (all these topics)

Pad Influence On composting feminine products	Umbra Fisk	30 Nov 2005	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, OK, the kitty-litter thing pushed me over the edge. I know you are sick of writing about gross, yucky things, but I had to ask: if kitty litter is compostable, what about biodegradable maxipads and tampons? One of the leading natural feminine-care brands touts their stuff as being biodegradable and compostable. Can this actually be possible? Liz Schlegel Waterbury, Vt. Dearest Liz, I'm not sick of writing about ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, health, waste (all these topics)

Raw milk, hot commodity Despite a recent crackdown, Washington State's raw-milk policy might point way forward.	Tom Philpott	28 Nov 2005	Gristmill
In a nation riddled with diet-related maladies like obesity and diabetes, the official fear that greets raw milk is impressive. You can waltz into any convenience store and snap up foods pumped liberally with government-subsidized high-fructose corn sweetener, deep-fried in government-subsidized partially hydrogenated soybean oil. Yet in many states, teams of bureaucrats devote themselves to 'protecting' us from raw milk -- and imposing onerous fines on farmers who da ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, food, health, Washington (all these topics)

Page:1 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 29		Results 326 – 350 of 725

Stories About: health