Category Archives: Public Health

A Sustainability Progress Report for Colorado

Anna Zawisza : Thursday February 23, 2:03PM

How would you like to have an annual, tangible measure of Colorado s sustainability progress (or lack thereof)? In other words, how can we know where we re going if we don t know where we are? We at … More »

Colorado Health Benefit Exchange website up and running!

Jason Page : Wednesday December 14, 3:37PM

Although the Colorado Health Benefit Exchange won't be operational until October 2013, residents can start learning about the exchanges and familiarizing themselves with the online interface by visiting the … More »

One-Third of Coloradans Lack Adequate Health Insurance

Jason Page : Wednesday December 14, 3:23PM

The latest Colorado Health Access Survey reports that one-third of Coloradans (over 1.5 million people) lack health insurance or are underinsured. Some significant findings in the report include... … More »

World Toilet Day-November 19th

Jackie Ganfield : Friday November 18, 4:52PM

Tomorrow, November 19 th , 2011 is World Toilet Day ! You are probably thinking, Okay, where is she going with this? World Toilet Day has been implemented in over 19 countries to raise global … More »

Where do your prescription medications go after you take them?

Jackie Ganfield : Friday November 4, 4:51PM

Your prescription medications go out of sight immediately, although their remnants do not disappear from our natural environment. In fact, our medicine stays in the water supply through human excretion. … More »

Thanks Obamacare!

Jackie Ganfield : Monday October 24, 4:56PM

The Obamacare campaign highlights 10 reasons to thank Obamacare in a positive way. The Obamacare campaign created a short video that depicts the benefits of the healthcare system through imagery, facts, … More »

The “Underregulated” Costs of Pollution

Tom Prugh : Friday October 21, 9:55AM

Make sure you have your water bottle handy if you read a new study estimating the costs of pollution from various U.S. economic sectors ; it's dry, dry, dry but fascinating. The paper, whose three … More »

Uranium Clean-Up at Schwartzwalder Mine

Jackie Ganfield : Friday October 14, 3:32PM

Cotter Corporation agreed to comply with state orders this Wednesday. Cotter Corporation will remove uranium contaminated water from their previous Schwartzwalder site (west of Denver). There are plans to have … More »

Could better built communities lead to a slimmer waistline?

Megan Moore : Friday October 14, 10:37AM

That's what health officials in Multnomah and Clark Counties, Oregon are trying to prove. They recently started a new mapping project which looks at the correlation of obesity rates and a household's proximity … More »

Pavement = Pollution?

Jeff Hohensee : Thursday October 6, 10:05AM

According to a recently published study from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), pavement increases air pollution in coastal cities: "Strip malls, subdivisions and other paved areas may … More »

GreenLeaf Denver & DHA Sustainability Park- Advancing the local community one veggie at a time

Jackie Ganfield : Wednesday September 21, 12:58PM

GreenLeaf Denver is a nonprofit organization and a growing Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program located on two farm sites in Denver. The original farm is located at 38 th and Williams and is best … More »

The Not-so-fat French–Yet

Tom Prugh : Friday September 16, 11:09AM

Check out this fascinating essay by Timothy Egan in today's New York Times about French and American obesity rates. Some interesting factoids: " P apers published last month in The Lancet project … More »

Sobering Poverty Stats Overlooked at Sustainability Movement’s Own Peril

Jason Page : Tuesday September 13, 6:48PM

A record 46.2 million Americans (15.1 percent of the total population) are in poverty , the most since the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting data in 1959. The poverty line for a family of four is 22,314 … More »

The highest recorded number of those in poverty – our reality

Kim Hughes : Tuesday September 13, 3:40PM

Today the Census Bureau released it's annual report on poverty, health insurance coverage and income. The numbers are from 2010 and, putting it lightly, they are bleak. Conditions are worsening: 46.2 million … More »
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