100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry
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Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...
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John Gerrard - Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), 2017
My source: Twitter
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| SSMJ Vol 18 No 4 November 2025 |
Dear reader,
The full issue of our November 2025 issue is now online; this is a bumper issue featuring 14 full articles and other news items, listed below. We thank the copyeditors and reviewers who helped prepare these papers. Let us know if you would like to join the Editorial team. We need you if you have time and editing skills.
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Labels: Africa , anaemia , antenatal , diabetes , investment , journal , misdiagnosis , Muslims , nephritis , paediatric , pollution , postpartum haemorrhage , research , reviews , rivers , South Sudan , surgery , TB , violence , wounds
'This year’s prize relates to the explanations for sustained growth based on technological innovation. Economic historian Joel Mokyr is rewarded with one half of the prize for his description of the mechanisms that enable scientific breakthroughs and practical applications to enhance each other and create a self-generating process, leading to sustained economic growth. Because this is a process that challenges prevailing interests, he also demonstrates the importance of a society that is open to new ideas and permits change.' 'The other half of the prize is awarded to the economists Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt. In a joint publication from 1992, they constructed a mathematical model of how companies invest in improved production processes and new, better-quality products, while the companies that previously had the best products are outcompeted. Growth arises through creative destruction. This process is creative because it builds upon innovation, but it is also destructive because older products become obsolete and lose their commercial value.' | |
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'It is apparent that, in the long run, sustained growth does not only have positive consequences for human wellbeing. First, sustained growth is not synonymous with sustainable growth. Innovations can have significant negative side effects. Mokyr argues that such negative effects sometimes initiate processes that uncover solutions to problems, making technological development a self-correcting process. Clearly, however, this often requires well-designed policies, such as in the areas of climate change, pollution, antibiotic resistance, increasing inequality and the unsustainable use of natural resources.' |
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Labels: AMR , benefits , climate change , commerce , creativity , destruction , economics , growth , history , innovation , math , mechanisms , models , nature , Nobel prize , obsolescence , pollution , sciences , sustainability , value
Dear ERCIM News reader,
My source with thanks: Peter Kunz ERCIM https://www.ercim.eu https://ercim-news.ercim.eu Join the ERCIM LinkedIn Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/81390/ Follow us on X: https://x.com/ercim_news
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Labels: accessibility , age estimation , AI , children , digital futures , disability , ethics , Europe , health , inclusion , intersectionality , law , online , pollution , research , safety , security , situated , sustainability
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Labels: approach , arts , belief , book , culture , environment , global , history , humanities , love , nature , open access , plants , pollution , practice , protection , society , trees , UN , water
Kafue River - ( clearly - not a 'person', nor the Rio Doce ) Signs of Life Signs of Government, Law & Accountability | |
See also:
Person & Sense of Place: A River runs through it ...
BBC - Artist explores the toxic mining legacy of Zambia's 'black mountains'
Heritage Management Process: Before & After
My prompt: Channel 4 News, UK 28 August 2025 1900.
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| The New Nature of Business |
'In The New Nature of Business, Luc's son André, now vice-chair of Roche, and co-author Peter Vanham lay out how to bring these parallel tracks together. "The business of business isn't just m of business," they write. "The business of business is to at least preserve and where possible expand the world's human, social, environmental and financial capital."The book makes the familiar case that maximising short-term profit leads to long-term destruction of value. But it also suggests that a "narrow focus on [reducing] carbon emissions" could have dangerous unintended consequences. Those four "capitals" depend on one another, write Hoffmann and Vanham. They call for nothing less than a systemic change to a "sustainable, inclusive form of capitalism, with new principles, and new practices".The most interesting parts of the book describe Hoffmann's path to the realisation in the early 2000s that the profit- making power of business should be harnessed in the quest for sustainability.' (My emphasis with some re-formatting.)
Hill, A. (2024) The sweeter pill, FTWeekend, Life&Arts, 28-29 September. p.11.
| HUMAN | ENVIRONMENTAL the new nature |
| SOCIAL | of business FINANCIAL |
Previously: 'capital' e.g. 'Capital Patient' :: 'Patient capital'.
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Labels: book , business , capitalism , compass , curation , economic , environment , ethics , finance , FT , future , human , morality , pollution , preservation , prosperity , social , value , values , wealth
Dear colleagues,
My source:
Politics of Health Group Mail List Messages
Visit the PoHG website for lots of interesting links and publications: http://www.pohg.org.uk/
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Labels: belief , climate change , conflict , culture , education , geopolitical , geopsychiatry , health , insecurity , Middle East , nations , peace , policy , politics , pollution , research , resources , violence , war , water
Since 2006, the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) has been uniting stakeholders to address critical global health issues every two years. By amplifying the voices of field experts and facilitating connections with influential policymakers, the forum provides a platform for showcasing innovative, accessible, and sustainable practices, as well as significant initiatives. Through its editions, the GHF has emerged as a pivotal event in addressing global health challenges.
For its 10th edition, from May 27 – 29, 2024, the GHF will address crucial issues for our future under the theme “Health, A Common Good!” The GHF transcends the boundaries of the healthcare system, considering the social and environmental determinants of health, with a specific focus on how environmental degradation is profoundly impacting human health.
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Labels: accountability , actors , arts , corporate responsibility , drama , drinking water , governance , health , history , Ibsen , performance , play , pollution , power , public , public health , theatre , transparency
"AI: Though these projects do not work solely within a logic of 'representation' they do, almost as a side effect, produce awful images. I am thinking in particular of the film still from Aluminium and the blackened lung hooked up to a coal fired computer. If the 'contraptions' you make can be thought of as diagrams of socio-technical relations, what are the qualities of the images they produce? To what extent are these images necessary by-products of the processes. GH: We can see the images arising out of the forces that threaten to break the machine, or assemblages arising out of its in-betweenness. Its unfinished nature always requires the imagination of the participant/viewer to finish the job, fill in the details. This is a powerful strategy." p.164. |
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Labels: activism , air , art , arts , coal , computers , force , images , imagination , journal , lungs , machine , participation , pollution , process , representation , respiration , socio-technical , viewer
Dear Peter
Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill passes 3rd reading in House of Lords!
Green
Baroness Jenny Jones' Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill passed its 3rd
reading in the House of Lords on Friday 2 December with strong
cross-party support! This landmark Bill is also known as Ella's Law in
memory of nine-year-old Ella Roberta Adoo Kissi-Debrah, the first
person to have air pollution listed by a coroner as a cause of death.
💚 Share our posts on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram about the Great Smog and Ella's Law
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As always, thank you for your support,
In solidarity,
Green Team
See also on W2tQ 'pollution'
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Labels: activism , air , air pollution , breathing , children , environment , history , human rights , law , mortality , policy , political , pollution , protection , public health , public mental health , respiration , UK , WHO
See also:
My source: Whipple, T. Where all life begins - the magic of cells, Saturday Review, The Times, November 5, 2022, p.16-17. Blakely, R. The Greta Thurnberg guide to saving the planet (same pages).
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Labels: activism , biology , books , cells , climate change , Earth , ecosystem , energy , exposome , Gaia , Greta Thunberg , health , Hodges' model , planetary , plastic , pollution , power , scale , science
In every age, there is a turning point, a new way of seeing and asserting the coherence of the world. J. Bronowski
About this event
As we emerge from the Covid pandemic, it is abundantly clear that we, the human race, share the same ecological systems and have the same survival instincts. However, we treat things in a piecemeal fashion in our day-to-day existence and conveniently forget that all our lives are entwined. We, the human race generating waste and creating pollution, cannot blame anyone else. Never has thought in a joined-up way been more critical. It is appropriate this year that the conference is hosted at the University of Lancaster that, under Peter Checkland, has done so much to stimulate Systems Thinking and Practice. To this end, the conference committee agreed that the theme should focus upon the value of systems thinking and practice and encourage contributions from across the spectrum of human concerns where the notion of holism is at its core.
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Labels: biosphere , conference , ecology , environment , holism , holistic , integration , interdependence , Lancaster University , pioneers , pollution , practice , process , research , systems , systems thinking , thought , value , waste
Born in Liverpool, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
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