Time for a Taste Test?

There’s a message for health care leaders in today’s Health Politics program, but I’m going to make you watch the video or read the transcript to find out what it is. Why? Because I’d rather blog today about the secondary theme of today’s program — the popularity of Mexican Coca-Cola in the United States. Are you […]

The Facts on CO2 Emissions and the G8

As Bush shifts rhetoric on global warming, the U.S. remains #1 in total millions of metric tons of carbon emitted into the air. Loyalists are now beginning to point the finger at China, as if to say, “They are worse than we are.” It’s true that China isn’t doing that great — with projected annual increases […]

Why Water Needs an Al Gore of Its Own

If you ask any United Nations official “What is our scarcest global resource?” he or she will reply without hesitation, “Water.” But surprisingly, there’s little global coordination to address the problem, even as it has rapidly accelerated. Water is charting the same course as did Global Warming. In the latter case, the facts, and some […]

Time to Make Something Happen

As you’ll see in this week’s Health Politics program, the threat of a cholera epidemic in the United States is not huge — although we came close after Hurricane Katrina — but many developing nations struggle with it constantly. The bacterium that causes the disease lives and thrives in contaminated water, and once a victim […]

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