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New report links wellbeing to active commutes

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15 Sep 2014
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Jacqueline Cutting
A new report from from UEA's Norwich Medical School and the Centre for Health Economics at the University of York shows that people's wellbeing is improved if they walk or cycle to work - or even take…
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Committee on Climate Change report and SDU call for NHS feedback on overheating in wards

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15 Sep 2014
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Jacqueline Cutting
The Committee on Climate Change has produced a recent report entitled 'Managing climate risks to well-being and the economy' The report investigates the threats and opportunities for the country…
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Climate Fiction Will Reinforce Existing Views

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30 Jul 2014
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Judith Anderson
Interesting article by George Marshall in New York Times in run up to release of his new book Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate…
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Why aren't we talking more about climate change?

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30 Jul 2014
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This year has been an interesting year for weather, from terrible floods to wonderful heat waves. Do we have to accept that from now on weather systems are going to become more unstable? If we do, how…
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The Men Who Made Us Spend

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14 Jul 2014
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Ben Whittaker
The Men Who Made Us Spend is a thought provoking series about consumerism: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zxm9b It made me consider again the occupational meaning of what we buy and how we buy. A…
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Boiler on Prescription

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8 Jul 2014
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In late 2011, while making coffee in our staff kitchen, I happened to ask my Director, Sally Hancox, “Do you think we’ve stopped folk turning up as much at their Doctors, now they have had the home…
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Would you like to attend a carbon workshop and/or become a sustainability champion? Read on...

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8 Jul 2014
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Are you interested in how sustainability relates to your work? Those within the Oxford AHSN area (Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Milton Keynes) have access to sustainability…
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CareLand

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7 Jul 2014
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Jovita
“CARE LAND” (la Tierra que te cuida), was created with the aim of enhancing the opportunities that health-nature relationship opens to the development of areas of high environmental value (Nature…
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CareLand

Created on
7 Jul 2014
by
Jovita
“CARE LAND” (la Tierra que te cuida), was created with the aim of enhancing the opportunities that health-nature relationship opens to the development of areas of high environmental value (Nature…
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COT Briefing on Sustainable Development

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27 Jun 2014
by
Ben Whittaker
BAOT members can download the COT briefing paper on Sustainable Development here:http://www.cot.co.uk/briefings/sustainable-development