Environmental and Occupational Health Issues

Hello! This week I will be writing about a local organizations that health professional volunteers can seek if a natural disaster were to occur. In my search I found two local organizations that are ready to help during a natural disaster.  The Sacramento County website also featured these organizations. Even though, the second organization is not exclusively for health professionals I think that they are a well-rounded organization with a great cause. Sacramento Medical Reserve Corps engages medical professionals who want to donate their time and expertise to prepare for and respond to emergencies. This organization also trains, deploys, and retains volunteer health professionals. If you are interested in joining the Sacramento Medical Reserve Corps you can do so by going to www.SacMRCfoundation.org and filling out an application. The Regional Center for Volunteerism Hands on Sacramento is an all-inclusive coalition of faith and community based organization. The coalition co...

Hello! This week I will be discussing what I find most troubling about climate change, what I think needs the greatest attention now, and how I would describe climate change and its threats to someone.  I want to start off by mentioning that I find it very disturbing when people say they don't believe in climate change. It's astonishing that with the overwhelming amount of information people still have the audacity to say it's not true. Climate change is very real and happening at a very fast rate. As inhabitants of earth we need to do a better job of addressing this issue and slowing down the progression of it. The most troubling issue I find about climate change is the insane amount of plastic! I see pictures and documentaries of rivers filled with plastic items and it breaks my heart. How is it that we have let this problem get so big? Why didn't we try to prevent it?  Seeing sea animals die due to the ingestion of plastic because they mistake it for food is simpl...

Hello! The thought of Zero Waste Life sounds amazing but then I have my doubts. I start to think about the difficulty of living waste free. Never the less, there are many new habits that I can start working on. I looked over Lauren Singer's blog and she has great tips for beginners. There's plenty of changes I can make that would make living waste free an easy transition. The first change I can make is shopping at a farmers market. I could also support local farmers while making that change. Additionally, I need to be more mindful of packaged items and avoid packaging. The second thing I can do is recycle properly and compost. Trash is for Tossers has an informative post about composting and provides useful resources. Watching the video's in module 11 and seeing all the waste in places like Indonesia created more of an awareness for me. I think that at times people don't think it's a big issue because we are not seeing it first hand. Learning that by 2050 there w...