Category: Health
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When activist burnout was a problem 50 years ago, this group found a solution
Our first decision was to adopt the proposal of long-time activists George and Lillian Willoughby to put training together with cooperative living, in a center. Learning together, in a supportive community, would handle anxiety by emphasizing over and over, “It’s not all about you, it’s about us. Together we’ll learn to make a difference.”
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How schools and families can take climate action by learning about food systems
Gabrielle Edwards, University of British Columbia News about the climate crisis alerts us to the urgent need for drastic global changes. Given this, it’s not surprising that one study surveying thousands of young people found most respondents were worried about climate change, and over 45 per cent said worries about climate change affected them daily.…
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Eco-anxiety: climate change affects our mental health – here’s how to cope
By Matthew Adams, University of Brighton, originally published on theconversation.com As a psychologist, I have been researching, writing and talking about psychological and social responses to climate change for over ten years. An increasingly common response appears to be extreme worry. The University of Bath recently published the results of its 2023 Climate Action Survey.…
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Open Soil Science: technology helping us rejoin nature
Soil provides society with essential food, feed, fibre and raw materials, as well as being home to a quarter of the earth’s biodiversity. Soils are also the largest organic carbon reservoir on Earth and although highly dynamic, are very fragile. Chop a forest down and it might grow back in 50 years, but lose 10…
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Seven ways to protect your health when cooking with gas
By Prashant Kumar, University of Surrey for The Conversation Cooking can pollute the air inside your house to such an extent that breathing in your kitchen may be as safe as breathing by a busy roadside. A poor supply of oxygen can prevent gas or solid fuels burning properly, which produces harmful pollutants such as…
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Shoved From the Ivory Tower
By Heather Ringo and Julia Métraux for Disability Visibility Project, CC-BY-NC 4.0 Shoved From the Ivory Tower: Disabled Graduate Students Crushed Between the University of California & Their Union On November 29th, 2022, over 200 disabled union workers and allies gathered on Zoom to beg members of the UAW 2865 Bargaining Team (BT) not to…
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California’s Public Scientists Union Battles Covid-19, Climate Crisis, and Austerity on Pay from Newsom Administration
By Steve Sander for massolidarity.org, CC BY-NC-NA 4.0 The California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS) represents toxicologists, biologists, veterinarians, geologists, chemists, and other scientific practitioners and researchers who play pivotal roles in ensuring that the state’s residents have clean and sanitary food, water, air, and soil. Many state scientists are also leading the state’s response…
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“Quiet Quitting” is a new name for an old method of direct action
Jonathan Lord, University of Salford The average UK worker now carries out approximately 22 days’ worth of overtime a year. Meanwhile, inflation is at a 40-year high of 10.1%, and real pay is dropping 2.8% – the fastest decline since records began in 2001. Audio recording of article available from original source. You can listen…
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3 ways people’s respiration can suffer from having had COVID-19
Jeffrey M. Sturek, University of Virginia and Alexandra Kadl, University of Virginia “I just can’t do what I used to anymore.” As pulmonologists and critical care doctors treating patients with lung disease, we have heard many of our patients recovering from COVID-19 tell us this even months after their initial diagnosis. Though they may have…
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The Accessibility of Guns in the US Impacts Other Countries Too
By Lucien Formichella for Fair Planet, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit against US gun manufacturers likely won’t result in victory. But it may call attention to the effect America’s lax gun laws have on its neighbours. Ineffective United States gun control does not only lead to mass shootings and violent crime in America; Mexico and…
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