Los Angeles County on Tuesday became the largest government entity to restrict single-use plastic food ware items from restaurants, stores, hospital cafeterias and food trucks. County supervisors finalized an ordinance that will require single-use food ware to be compostable or recyclable, unless it’s a full-service, dine-in eatery, in which case it needs to be reusable.…
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This Earth Day, it’s important to remember that our health as we age has a lot to do with the health of our environment from the soil to the sky.
Metro will be offering free bus, rail and bike share rides on Earth Day, Friday, April 22 in recognition of public transit’s role in helping improve the environment and reducing greenhouse gases that cause climate change. If you’re new to Metro or haven’t ridden in a while, use the Transit app for iPhones and Android…
USC School of Architecture alumna Brittany Moffett (Master of Building Science ’16, BS Civil ‘14) has found a home at Arup, a mission-driven global engineering and consulting firm committed to sustainable development. There she has an uncommon but emerging role: Resilience Engineer. “Right now, the world is grappling with multiple concurrent crises, like climate change,…
Scientists in the Keck School of Medicine of USC’s Department of Population and Public Health Sciences are stepping up to evaluate climate change’s impact on human health — particularly for communities already enduring disparities — and devise ways to reverse course. Within the last few years, a cadre of four faculty members concerned with the detriments of…
For physician-scientist Howard Hu, the irony is hard to take. The same medical community that makes its mission to improve health also substantially contributes to climate change, a global threat with numerous, widespread detriments to health. In the U.S. alone, the health care industry accounts for between 8 and 10 percent of all greenhouse gas…
The world now produces nearly 400 million tons of plastic pollution every year, and each piece takes some 400 years to break down. Less than 10% is recycled. Clearly, we have a serious problem. But what do we do about it? Plastic protects nearly everything we buy, it’s the building material for home goods, and…
One NIEHS grant recipient is taking air pollution research to a new level and expanding knowledge about how climate change-related weather events such as wildfires can affect maternal and infant health. Rima Habre, Sc.D., from the University of Southern California (USC), integrates diverse data on individual exposures and lifestyle factors to bolster her research, and…
The Keck School of Medicine of USC strives to make health care sustainable through research, improving practices, and awareness of the role medicine plays in contributing to and ameliorating environmental harm. We acknowledge that it takes a healthy planet to produce healthy people. The Keck School is conducting vital research on the impacts of environmental…
An April 19 workshop, Finding Calm in the Storm: A Workshop on Climate Anxiety and Love for Our Planet, will help reduce your stress and anxiety around climate change. The workshop is lead by USC clinical psychologist and professor Dr. Pamela “Tobi” Fishel and occupational therapist Dr. Camille Dieterle. In preparation for Earth Day on April…