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Good Fish, Bad Fish: Is Your Favorite Seafood Unhealthy for the Planet?

June 8, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Reviving the World's Oceans

Tags:
food, health, healthyoceans, overfishing, seafood, worldoceansday

When I was growing up, my family lived in New Orleans for several years, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. One of my father's friends had a boat, and he liked to take it out shrimping. My dad and...continued

Bike to Work Day: Motivation for Getting Back on the Bike

May 14, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Living Sustainably

Tags:
bicycling, commuting, health, pollution, smartercities, smartgrowth, transportation

Tomorrow is National Bike to Work Day, which is part of National Bike Month, coinciding with Bike Month NYC here in the Big Apple, and I have to admit that it's all making me feel a bit guilty. Last summer,...continued

I was a victim of the peanut butter recall

January 30, 2009

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment

Tags:
bushadministration, FDA, foodsafety, health, localfoods, monitoring, peanutbutter, simplesteps

Yesterday, my wife forwarded me an "Important Announcement Regarding Your Recent Purchase of Peanut Butter" that she got from Fresh Direct, the online grocery service here in New York City.This was not a good e-mail.As my wife will tell you,...continued

Are we ready for more heat waves and their impact on our health?

August 26, 2008

Posted by Scott Dodd in Health and the Environment , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
california, environmentalhealth, globalwarming, health, heatwaves, publichealth

Two years ago, while taking a year off to get a master’s degree at Columbia University (yeah, some "year off"), I took a fascinating class on the public health impacts of climate change -- a rapidly emerging field that’s just...continued

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