Health
22. 02. 2010
Comments (2)
I spent last Friday at the launch conference for the Marmot Review – a report on health and equality and what we should be doing about them here in the UK.
It’s a really good report and powerfully reminds all those who see themselves as active in the ‘sustainable development...
15. 09. 2009
Last year, the NHS launched its first ever Carbon Reduction Strategy. Apart from a few mischievous media comments (homing in on the gentlest of hints that hospitals might in the future be serving less meat as part and parcel of providing lower-carbon meals), it has been very...
16. 10. 2007
What an intriguing contribution from Alan Johnson linking obesity and climate change, when he suggested that obesity could be at least as serious a problem by 2050 as we think climate change will be.
Perhaps the Secretary of State for Health is softening us all up for a new...
31. 07. 2007
On what must have been just about the only sunny day in July, I found myself last week enjoying the evening sunshine sitting outside a London pub with a group of equally sun-loving escapees from an exceptionally tedious conference. Eight tables outside, rapidly filling up, with...