August Newsletter with some time-sensitive opportunities, lots of resources

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OASIS August Newsletter (feel free to share)

Time Sensitive:

“Let’s Teach Planetary Health: A webinar to connect educators, share resources, and guide future Planetary Health initiatives. ” Sep 9, 4pm PT. Virtual event hosted by the Planetary Health Alliance. Learn more here and register here.

Webinar: Switching to Sustainable Foodware: FREE Webinar! Thursday, September 18th at 4pm EST

Pingry Climate Summit Oct. 4

General:

How Theater Can Teach Kids About Climate Change

The Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts

Climate Psychology Alliance August newsletter

Climate Psychology Alliance Sept newsletter

An inspiring student-led sustainability initiative at Georgetown Day School

Green Schools Alliance August Newsletter

Ten Strands: Seeds to Solutions instructional resources—free, solutions-focused lessons for grades K–12 designed to empower students with the knowledge and agency to protect the people and places they love.

HUMAN AND PLANETARY HEALTH

· On recent climate change regulations: “There are opportunities to push back” – from Marshall Burke and Solomon Hsiang

· Urgent action needed to stop lead-leaking industrial sites harming children in Dhaka – feat. HPH Director Steve Luby

· The hidden mental health cost of climate distress – feat. this publication from HPH Director Steve Luby, HPH affiliate Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, and colleagues

· For city folks, 15 minutes in nature can improve mental health – feat. this study from Stanford’s Natural Capital Project

· In California, emergency room visits rise sharply with hotter days – feat. this publication from Marshall Burke, Eran Bendavid, and colleagues

· Effects of wildfire particulate matter on resting heart rate – from Marco Perez, Brian Kim, and colleagues

MORE NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

· EPA rescinds finding that greenhouse gas emissions harm human health – a move that experts say could “end the U.S. fight against climate change”

· “You are contaminated” – from plastics to PFAS and beyond, how “each of us [is] inescapably linked to one another and to the external world, now woven through with waste”

· Plastics and human health: what’s at stake in the global treaty talks in Geneva

· Learn more about plastics & chemical pollution: human exposure to microplastics in indoor air, phthalates in marine mammals, ways to cut plastics in daily life, plus a plastic-focused journal issue feat. emerging research and policy priorities

· Mercury pollution is worsening a mental health crisis in this Indigenous community

· Depression, suicides, overdoses: broad impacts of US wildfires revealed in study

· Rising temperatures cause students to underperform across the world

· The emotion that links climate change and mental health struggles

· Why certain medications can increase your risk in the heat

MORE NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

· From Sacramento to Geneva: two arenas tackle plastic pollution – feat. Stanford HPH’s Plastics and Health Working Group

· Climate and community health factsheet: critical role of infrastructure in resilience

· Unmasked wildfire fighting firefighters are getting sick and dying

· A debilitating virus surges globally as mosquitoes move with warming climate

· Doctors step up against the climate health emergency

· Factory farms don’t just stink — they make it harder to breathe, too

o Feat. this University of Michigan study, which revealed that counties with animal feeding operations have more air pollution, less health insurance coverage

· Lead attributed to up to $499 billion in lost productivity in low- and middle-income countries

· How climate change endangers mothers and children

· The ethics of climate change and health care delivery

· Climate change could be expanding range of disease-carrying mosquitos – feat. HPH leaders Erin Mordecai and Desiree LaBeaud

o Learn more about the Center’s Disease Ecology in a Changing World (DECO) program here

· Climate-smart public health for global health resilience – publication from HPH Affiliate Timothy Bouley and colleagues

· LA’s fires reshaped the city; they may also have changed bodies – feat. work from Emma Krasovich Southworth

· The hidden neurological toll of wildfires – from Burcin Ikiz

· You should eat more plant protein – feat. Christopher Gardner

· Why the microplastics crisis will only get worse – feat. HPH Affiliate Amelia Meyer

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