Public Service Commission should set ambitious energy saving goals for power companies
As physicians on the front line of public health, Drs. Cheryl Holder and Todd Sack know that energy efficiency reduces pollution, improves human health, and lowers energy costs.
Climate change is making us sicker
Dr. Homan Wai writes about the increasing health impacts, due to our warming and increasingly unstable climate. The time to act is now to protect our health!
Climate Change and Health: A Call to Social Workers
Carrie Dorn writes about how social workers can help clients recognize and address emotional, health, and environmental factors to improve well-being.
The climate of American medicine
Dr. Sam Stea appeals to doctors, nurses, friends and peers, that now is the time we must acknowledge climate change as the grave health crisis it will most certainly become....
July 2019 Champion!
As the climate crisis intensifies, brutal days become more common, which puts more Floridians in greater danger – a health risk that Dr. Todd Sack wishes more people realized.
Extreme Heat in Miami Will Only Get Worse, Scientists Warn
Miami has broken heat records left and right this summer, but scientists say this is just the beginning.
Climate change a threat to public health
The directors for the Montana Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate write about how climate change is affecting public health in Montana.
The Case of Juliana v. U.S. — Children and the Health Burdens of Climate Change
Drs Renee N. Salas, Wendy Jacobs, and Frederica Perera write about the case of Juliana v. U.S. — Children and the Health Burdens of Climate Change.
June 2019 Champion!
As physicians, we are bound by the Hippocratic oath to prevent what we cannot treat. Our climate crisis needs bold science-based policy to transform our fossil-based electricity, transportation and food-systems.....
Video: “Another Tool in the Toolbox”
Dr Lori Byron speaks about climate, health and divestment in this PK (Pecha Kucha) talk.
Video: Climate change disproportionately affects low-income populations
Florida TV coverage interviewing FCCA Members as part of the Trouble in Paradise series.
April 2019 Champions!
Meet our Champions of the Month... Climate & Health Advocates at the Consortium Conference!
2nd Annual Conference: Good Climate Policy Starts with Health
The conference convened 128 doctors and other health professionals to promote a health policy action agenda for addressing today’s climate emergency.
Climate policy will help ‘keep my patients out of the hospital’
Dr. Laalitha Surapaneni is interviewed about how the effects of climate change are showing up in her day-to-day work as an internal medicine doctor.
March 2019 Champion!
A change in one carbon footprint is a step toward a more sustainable planet, but it takes a group to make a big difference. As he works to counter climate....
Medical community must sound alarm on climate change’s negative effects on health
Dr Cheryl Holder writes about how we all bear responsibility for making our city, and our world, a healthful place to live and raise our families.
February 2019 Champion!
Dr David Fivenson, a dermatologist in Ann Arbor, Michigan, expects that as the planet’s temperature goes up, incidence of dermatological disease will too. Read about how this champion is raising....
My Patients’ Health Depends on Addressing Climate Change
Medical student Autumn Vogel confronts the future, writing an Op-Ed on how climate change is going to put incredible stress on our already overburdened health system.
Climate change is a health emergency. Let’s act like it.
Dr. Linda Rudolph (Public Health Institute), and Dr. Will Barrett (American Lung Association) write about the California Call to Action on Climate, Health, and Equity.
January 2019 Champion!
Dr. Carissa Cabán-Aleman, a psychiatrist and assistant professor, is a champion for providing psychological first aid for local leaders affected by Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. She has helped social....