https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home/staff/ken-rosenberg/ Backyard birdwatchers, you’re eyes aren’t deceiving you. The number of birds in the United States and Canada has dropped by 29 percent since 1970. The head of the National Audubon Society, calls it a ‘full blown crisis’. Birds are the most studied group of animals on Earth given the ease by which they can …
https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Places-Science-Urban-Planning/dp/0691195218 With many young people deciding that the city, once again, is their destination of choice, we wanted to find out whether urban planning today is meeting the needs of this generation. Generations past gave us public water and sanitation, zoning, building codes and roadways that did more to influence our health and well being …
https://www.baypath.edu/academics/faculty-directory/biography/scott-mcphee/ Many of us think that our genes and our lifestyle, or just plain luck, determine our health outcomes. As a society, we’re beginning to understand another key factor is the growing impact of the social determinants of health–the walk ability of our neighborhood, access to medical facilities and transportation, living in areas that aren’t …
https://www.thehastingscenter.org/team/rosemary-gibson/ So many vulnerabilities become more visible and are exacerbated during a crisis, like the coronavirus pandemic. In America, we’ve seen how quickly economic prosperity can be undone and inequities in the system revealed. We also see how lack of attention to public health, except in a crisis, makes the world’s most capable nation look …
https://www.commongood.org/philip-k-howard/ Much has been, and will be, written about government’s delays in containing the deadly COVID-19 corona virus. We hear the names CDC, FDA, HHS and a tangle of bureaucracies named during the Administration’s daily briefings. To what extent did the many regulations governing the actions of each layer of government play a role in …
https://www.forbes.com/sites/taramastroeni/#546a27dd1616 The baby boomers liked their suburban homes, with lots of room inside and out. The millennials, many of whom will be relied upon to buy them, not so much. Between now and 2037 it is projected that 21 million homes will hit the market as boomers downsize, move in with family and require assisted …
https://www.paul-freedman.com/ At our founding, there were very distinctive regional flavors that made up the American palate. Over time, as part of the industrial revolution, Americans began to standardize the way foods were prepared, thus saving time and assuring us that a trusted brand stood behind what we were consuming. Today, in a trend that …
https://www.amazon.com/Land-Fee-Hidden-Decline-American/dp/0199970165 Have you ever stopped to read all the fees tacked on to your electric bill, cable bill, mortgage, car or student loan? It’s a cut by a thousand fees–$1.47 here, $2.50 there and before you know it, it adds up to real money. In fact, it’s over a trillion and a half dollars a …
https://www.independent.org/aboutus/person_detail.asp?id=487 At a recent gathering of the leaders of the world’s democracies in Canada, the reporting from the meeting in Politico opened with the sentence: ‘if there’s a word that sums up the current mood of the West’s high command, it’s this: despair’. On the heels of French President Emmanuel Macron suggesting that NATO …
https://www.amazon.com/Finding-Meaning-Sixth-Stage-Grief/dp/1501192736 In the realm of groundbreaking work, David Kessler and Elizabeth Kubler-Ross introduced us to the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance in 2005 in the book ‘On Grief and Grieving’. Ms. Kubler-Ross has died, but Mr. Kessler, the world’s most well-known expert on grieving, continues his work and introduces us …