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Fundamental Citizen Needs
Posts in this category are about Fundamental Citizen Needs. Long-term cross-cultural studies suggest that fundamental needs fall into nine universal categories: subsistence, protection, affection, understanding, participation, idleness, creation, identity, and freedom. Communities should ensure that member’s fundamental needs of food, shelter, knowledge, health care, and security are met locally, affordably, and reliably.
(Adapted from ConservationEconomy.net)
Fires and Smoke near Moscow
Acquired July 28, 2010, this natural-color image shows fires east of Moscow blanketing the region in thick smoke.
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(0)More frequent, more intense heat waves in store for New York, climate scientists predict
Heat waves like those that baked the Northeast in July are likely to be more frequent and more intense in the future, with their effects amplified in densely built urban environments like Manhattan, according to climate scientists.
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EPA Relies on Industry-Backed Studies to Assess Health Risks of Widely Used Herbicide
Companies with a financial interest in a weed-killer sometimes found in drinking water paid for thousands of studies federal regulators are using to assess the herbicide's health risks, records of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency show. Many of these industry-funded studies, which largely support atrazine's safety, have never been published or subjected to an independent scientific peer review. [More]
United States - Drinking water - United States Environmental Protection Agency - Herbicide - Health
