…for shade. What they call trees are actually large plants. “‘Urban Heat Zones’ Making Schools Even Hotter,” NEA In Tempe, Arizona, history teacher Dylan Wince asks his students each year…

Brief Four minute read with graphs and tables. The Consumer Price(s) Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.6 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis in April, after rising 0.9…

…protects the public from food-borne illnesses. It issues nutritional advice and drug labeling guidelines. It polices false medical claims on packaging and in advertisements. It safeguards about one in every…

David Zetland at Aguanomics suggests that the problems worldwide with water for drinking and as importantly sanitation receives little attention. I like the poll on his site which suggests for…

…physicians what they already k new, Depakote was a very valuable medication for “off-label” (unapproved uses). In the irony department, prescribing and administering Depakote for off-label uses is legal, and…

…Water – has begun. At stake is one of the largest oil reserves in the world, a vast cache trapped beneath the Rocky Mountains containing an estimated 800 billion barrels…

…in the same dilemma, but watching policy develop to change behavior is interesting. Like bottled water in Head scratching use of water in a previous post the volume of this…

(Dan here…one of David Zetland’s students Lenaide writes on groundwater…a reminder of what also matters during this heated political climate, and from a younger generation) A threatened groundwater source Lenaide…

…one-third of U.S. drinking water sources “by weakening the Clean Water Act, finalizing a so-called dirty water rule, and delaying action to protect against toxic chemicals in drinking water; easing…

…has the lowest proportion of ‘excellent’ bathing waters in Western Europe, according to the latest report by the European Environment Agency. “Water_Markets_Europe.pdf” (kysq.org), David Zetland During the summer of 2008,…