The “green” economy is an economy aimed at preserving the well-being of society, through the efficient use of natural resources. It also ensures the return of end-use products to the production cycle. This may be called “full life-cycle environmental stewardship” or “cradle to grave stewardship.” First of all, the “green” economy is aimed at economical
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By Monica Gul SURREY (NEWS 1130) – Pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Fraser Health are being described as chaotic, with little public communication from the health authority and people scrambling to get in line after hearing about them from word of mouth. Despite no official heads up from the Fraser Health Authority, COVID-19 vaccination pop-up
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Most often I ad lib on radio and TV or in newspaper interviews. But, in the back of my mind is former CBS TV anchor Walter Cronkite’s old quote that there’s no such thing as an ad lib. There might be a turn of a phrase you’ve never made in that exact way, but you
Interview of Allan Bonner on Sirius Radio about the COVID-19 Vaccine Roll Out
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Analysis of the vaccine rollout on Sirius Satellite Radio
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Sometimes sometimes a crisis can have an unexpected beginning. In the middle of the night, on the West Coast, the proverbial little old lady awoke in some discomfort. She grabbed for her familiar over-the-counter pain reliever. She fumbled with a few items on her night table, got some water, took the tablets and went back
It seems as if everyone is an epidemiologist these days. So it’s worth considering epidemiology’s history and the role it should be playing in public policy, preventing disease and promoting health. When U.S. President Donald Trump and reporters get into arguments about infections, testing and death rates, they’re engaging in an epidemiological discussion. Not everyone
Why is risk communication important when writing emergency plans?
Crises make for strange bedfellows. It took the COVID-19 pandemic to forge a bond between journalists and epidemiologists. These two occupations have little in common. Journalist detest jargon and are admonished by editors for wordy prose. Epidemiologists publish in medical and scientific journals using the jargon and terminology of their profession. They may present scientific
“Pandemics are a magnifying glass that sheds light on social conditions,” says May-Brith Ohman Nielsen, professor of history at the University of Agder in Norway. Pandemics lay bare the failures of a country’s organization and capacity that went unnoticed during uneventful times. Conflicting policies, staff vacancies, purchase orders for the wrong items, a lack of
Allan Bonner explores a concept proposed by Ulrich Beck: that politicians try to underwrite our safety. These days, they do this by political theatre and photo ops — like eating beef after the Mad Cow scare, or eating in Chinatown after SARS, H1N1 and now COVID-19. Should this be the priority?