Center for a Livable Future

November 2008

 

Highlighted Events

CLF Events


November 19

The Rebuilding Local Food Economics Tour

Mark Your Calendars

Mar. 3, 2009
9th Annual Dodge Lecture, Dr. Vandana Shiva, Director, Navdanya - Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology, and author of “Water Wars.”

JHU Campus and Regional Events

November 14
EHSSO Seminar: The Quality of Baltimore City's Waterways

November 17
"Conflict Resolution in Water Resources"

November 19
Weeds, Pest and the Fates of Ecological

“Policy, politics and Ph.D.'s: How science and policy intersect”


More information on highlighted  events ……
 

CLF Director Addresses Need for Collaboration at International Symposium for Environmental Health
Forty-eight speakers and 192 participants reviewed current research and identified future opportunities for collaboration at the recent International Public Health Symposium on Environment and Health Research, “Science for Policy, Policy for Science: Bridging the Gap,” held in Madrid, Spain...Read More....

Sustainability Plays Role in Reducing Conflict
In the eighth and final installment of the Connecting Sustainability and Health lecture series, Geoffrey Dabelko, director of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, discussed the role of environmental preservation in the context of conflict and security around the world....Read More.....

CLF Helping to Make Campus Food More Climate-Friendly
With food consumption accounting for up to one fifth of household greenhouse gas emissions, greater efforts must be made to measure and communicate the environmental impacts of dietary behavior, according to experts....Read More....

First-of-Its-Kind Web Site Connects Agriculture and Public Health
The Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has launched a web site to enable research and reporting on the critical links between agriculture and public health. The Agriculture & Public Health Gateway is a unique information resource for public health and agricultural professionals, advocacy and community organizations, policy makers, journalists, and educators....Read More....

Antibiotic-Resistant Organisms Can Spread Via Livestock Transportation, Hopkins Researchers Find
The last time you took a nice summer drive to the beach, enjoying the scenery with your windows rolled down, chances are you weren’t thinking about breathing in antibiotic-resistant microorganisms from broiler chickens....Read More....

CLF Research Featured on EarthSky Podcast
EarthSky Communications, a science podcast, interviewed CLF Research Director Roni Neff on her recent research on the news media’s coverage of climate change and the food system. Dr. Neff’s study, “Yesterday’s dinner, tomorrow’s weather, today’s news?.....Read More....

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