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How Green is Our Recovery?
Posted on May 14, 2009The economic recovery packages put forward by many countries spend lots of money, but a key question is whether the packages will have a beneficial impact on greening the global economy. Although few contain adequate detail for full assessment, some....
New Method to Address Corruption in Developing Countries?
Posted on May 07, 2009Corruption and poor governance are generally recognized as a key obstacle to achieving the Millennium Development Goals, ecological sustainability, social equity, and economic development as well as realizing human rights in many developing countries...
Good News! Officials waffle "maybe," but the report that Mexico's reported deaths were too high by an order of magnitude provides a partial explanation for the difference in lethality between Mexico's flu and the flu as experienced elsewhere
Posted on May 03, 2009This just in from the NY Times: NYT link May 2, 2009 Outbreak in Mexico May Be Smaller Than Feared By LIZ ROBBINS and DENISE GRADY The swine flu outbreak in Mexico may be considerably smaller than originally feared, test...
Pan American Health Organization - May 2 PM update
Posted on May 03, 2009PAHO link PAHO Confirmed case interactive map PAHO May 1 Incidence map *Emergency Operations Center (EOC) ? PAHOPage 1 For public distribution Saturday, May 02, 2009 6pm EST EOC SITUATION REPORT #9 Influenza A/H1N1 Summary ? The situation continues to...
Confirmed cases - May 2nd am
Posted on May 03, 2009*Deaths: 168 deaths in Mexico, 12 confirmed as swine flu. One confirmed in U.S., a nearly 2-year-old boy from Mexico who died in Texas. **Confirmed sickened worldwide: 504; 300 confirmed as having swine flu in Mexico; 133 in U.S.; 35...
WHO update May 3
Posted on May 03, 2009May 3 Confirmed cases Austria: 1 Canada: 70 Costa Rica: 1 Denmark: 1 France: 2 Germany: 6 Hong Kong: 1 Ireland: 1 Israel: 3 Mexico: 506 and 19 deaths Netherlands: 1 New Zealand: 4 South Korea: 1 Spain: 13 Switzerland:...
Jurist Op-Ed by Ed Richards about Adequacy of Existing Public Health Laws
Posted on May 03, 2009Fighting H1N1: Why Laws are Not the Answer Jurist link JURIST Guest Columnist Ed Richards of Louisiana State University Law Center says that in the midst of current concerns about the spread of the H1N1 virus (popularly known as "swine...
Oregon H1N1 flu update - May 2nd
Posted on May 03, 2009H1N1 influenza 4 p.m. update __________________________________________________________________________ Cases: As of late Saturday, Oregon had identified eleven probable cases of H1N1 influenza virus with additional specimens being tested at the Oregon State Public Health Laboratory in Hillsboro...
CDC Swine Flu Report - May 3rd - 226 confirmed cases, just 1 death, in 30 states
Posted on May 03, 2009H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) Site last updated May 3, 2009, 11:00 AM ET U.S. Human Cases of H1N1 Flu Infection (As of May 3, 2009, 11:00 AM ET) States # of laboratory confirmed cases Deaths Alabama 1 Arizona 18 California...
Total emisions approach - accurate but not novel and a flawed basis for policy
Posted on May 03, 2009As this report on the new studies published in Nature indicates, the global warming problem is and always has been understood to be a matter of the total loadings of GHG emissions in the atmosphere, not a matter of timing....
US officials continue to close schools
Posted on May 01, 2009On Thursday, the swine flu outbreak caused schools in 14 states to shut their doors on more than 160,000 schoolchildren, and additional closures could affect as many as 223,700 students in 17 states.In total, more than 100 school systems have...
WHO raises alert level to Phase 5 - there will be a pandemic.
Posted on April 30, 2009WHO link to Video of press conference Press conference video file for direct downloading There will be a pandemic -- the question is how severe? Dr. Chan says WHO is now mobilizing every resource - financial resources from donor countries...
Colorado confirms 2 cases
Posted on April 30, 2009Colorado health officials said Wednesday they were awaiting test results for what they called five suspected cases of swine flu. Thursday morning, they announced 2 cases have been confirmed. The 2 confirmed cases are in Arapahoe and Douglas counties.News link
WHO Update 6 - April 30th
Posted on April 30, 2009Influenza A(H1N1) - update 6 30 April 2009 -- The situation continues to evolve rapidly. As of 17:00 GMT, 30 April 2009, 11 countries have officially reported 257 cases of influenza A (H1N1) infection. The United States Government has reported...
CDC Swine Flu Report - April 30th: South Carolina added to list of states with confirmed cases (10 cases) and Texas also adds 10 more cases
Posted on April 30, 2009Swine Influenza (Flu) Swine Flu website last updated April 30, 2009, 10:30 AM ET U.S. Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection (As of April 30, 2009, 10:30 AM ET) States # of laboratory confirmed cases Deaths Arizona 1 California 14...
Mexico to take 5 day break at home to stop spread of swine flu -- but ever optimistic Americans are going about business as usual
Posted on April 30, 2009The NY Times reported this morning: As the swine flu virus appeared in new locations as far apart as Peru and Switzerland on Thursday, Mexicans braced for a national shutdown of offices, restaurants, schools and even the stands of soccer...
Below is the best North American
Posted on April 30, 2009Below is the best North American map I've seen. It is the map from the Pan-American Health Organization -- which is the WHO region for the Americas. It doesn't contain some of the Central American and South America information, but...
April 30th Information from the Pan-American Health Organization
Posted on April 30, 2009To date, the United States has confirmed a total of 109 human cases of swine influenza A H1N1: 1 in Arizona, 14 in California, 1 in Indiana, 2 in Kansas, 2 in Massachusetts, 1 in Michigan, 1 in Nevada, 50...
Check out Peter Gleick's blog on water issues
Posted on April 29, 2009Gleick Joins the Blogosphere Read and discuss everything water with internationally renowned expert Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, on his new blog. Featured on City Brights, San Francisco Chronicle's luminary blogger site, Gleick explores the water challenges facing...
NEW GLOBAL WATER AND SANITATION BILL: "THE SENATOR PAUL SIMON WATER FOR THE WORLD ACT OF 2009"
Posted on April 29, 2009Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives on Earth Day would put the United States in the lead of responding to the worldwide crisis in drinking water and sanitation. The new bill, "The Senator Paul Simon Water for the World...
Bush Administration Midnight ESA Consultation Rule Revoked
Posted on April 29, 2009FWS Press Release: Salazar and Locke Restore Scientific Consultations under the Endangered Species Act to Protect Species and their Habitats WASHINGTON, D.C. ? Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the two...
Huge chunk of Wilkins Ice Shelf collapses
Posted on April 29, 2009When the Wilkins Shelf ice bridge shelf collapsed earlier in April, it was the beginning of the end of the whole shelf. Today, a 270 square mile chunk of the northern ice front of the Wilkins Ice Shelf broke off....
How this virus developed and why it may be a killer
Posted on April 29, 2009The Mexican swine flu virus is a swine influenza A/H1N1 virus hybridized (mixed) with human and bird viruses. We have some immunity to human flu and to some strains of swine influenza A/H1N1; We don't have immunity to bird flu,...
WHO Update 5 - April 29th
Posted on April 29, 200929 April 2009 -- The situation continues to evolve rapidly. As of 18:00 GMT, 29 April 2009, nine countries have officially reported 148 cases of swine influenza A/H1N1 infection. The United States Government has reported 91 laboratory confirmed human cases,...
CDC US information
Posted on April 29, 2009Swine Influenza (Flu) Swine Flu website last updated April 29, 11:00 AM ET U.S. Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection (As of April 29, 2009, 11:00 AM ET) States # of laboratory confirmed cases Deaths Arizona 1 California 14 Indiana...
Its time to undertake all of the community mitigation efforts: we have a PSI category 4 pandemic at least and WHO is set to declare the pandemic to be stage 5
Posted on April 29, 2009Even a day makes a difference! WHO is now considering increasing its phase to Phase 5. The US now has a death rate that exceeds 1%, so the Pandemic Severity Index in the US is a Category 4 severity, especially...
Swine Flu Sells
Posted on April 29, 2009I haven't tried to find out other blog and website traffic figures, but based on my figures, swine flu "sells." This might be a good time to remind readers that all royalties from this blog go to fund water and...
Six Month Contraction of Economy Greater than any Prior Six Months during Post WWII Recession
Posted on April 29, 2009I saw the news from the Commerce Department today that the US economy contracted at a 6.1% annual rate during the first quarter of this year following a 6.3% loss in GDP during the fourth quarter of 2008. A quick...
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