Health Care IS Climate Care

The world of medicine is strewn with 3-letter acronyms, and no-where is this more true than in the modern NICU. We have acronyms for everything: RDS, BPD, IVH, SGA, LGA, UVC . . .

When Europeans first made their way to the “New World”, equipped with weapons and diseases with which to kill off and decimate the indigenous peoples, the vast land . . .

Back in June of 2020, I sat under the gazebo in the backyard of Sudbury anesthetist-environmentalist Sanjiv Mathur, swatting at mosquitoes, and admiring his astroturf . . .

A Day Worth Pondering

Today is Earth Overshoot Day 2020 (EO Day). EO Day marks the point in the calendar year when humans exceed the planet’s capacity to sustain us. It’s about two weeks late this year . . .

In 2007, Mark Lynas published a book called Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet. In the book, he described, degree by degree, how things would be on Planet Earth . . .

My composting worms have birthed cent-uplets! Or maybe mille-uplets?? Well, to be honest I didn’t dig my hands right in and try to count them. All those tiny white squigglers . . .

For a few glorious moments, the bright blue, hand-carved blades and heavy turbine of Ken Foster’s latest “windmill” stood poised high in the sky, nearly vertical. Ken was manning the winch . . .