Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Search of the day (July 23)



The Independent (22 JULY 2014) How much independence should children have?

Global Policy (21 JULY 2014) The uneven ‘open data’ revolution: Policy considerations for cities

Global Policy – 3D Printing: New economic paradigms and strategic shifts

Global Policy (21 JULY 2014) Strategies in long negotiations: What we can learn from climate change

Dale W. Jamieson and Marcello Di Paola. Climate change and global justice: New problem, old paradigm. (24 FEB 2014) Global Policy Volume 5, Issue 1 – pages 105-111.

Blue and Green Tomorrow (23 JULY 2014) The Guide to Sustainable Energy 2014

Grist (23 JULY 2014) Even rural America can have good public transportation

Global Policy (23 JULY 2014) The commons as a growing global movement

Mother Jones (22 JULY 2014) Study finds kids prefer healthier lunches.  School food lobby refuses to believe it.

Lindsey Turner and Frank J. Chaloupka.  Perceived reactions of elementary school students to change in school lunches after implementation of the United States Department of Agriculture’s New Meals Standards: Minimal backlas, but rural and socioeconomic disparities exist.  (2014) Childhood Obesity Volume 10, Number 4

U.S. Government Accountability Office (28 JAN 2014) School Lunch: Implementing nutrition changes was challenging and clarification of oversight requirements is needed.

American Enterprise Institute (23 JULY 2014) Why big box retailes are good for worker wages

National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 20313 (July 2014)
Do large modern retailers pay premium wages?

VOX (22 JULY 2014) Does going on vacation make you more creative when you get back?

Jessica de Bloom, Simone Ritter, Jana Kuhnel, Jennifer Reinders, Sabine Geurts.  Vacation from work: A ‘ticket to creativity’? – The effects of recreational travel on cognitive flexibility and originality.  (2014) Tourism Management Volume 44 – Pages 164-171.

Globe and Mail (22 JULY 2014) How to make benefit plans healthier

Globe and Mail (22 JULY 2014) Nothing archived by province in 10 years, BC Commissioner says

GreenBiz (21 JULY 2014) 4 ways to take green cities to the next level

Brian Stone Jr., Jason Vargo, Peng Liu, Dana Habeeb, Anthony DeLucia, Marcus Trail, Yongtao Hu, Armistead Russell.  Avoided heat related mortality through climate adaptation strategies in three U.S. cities. (25 JUNE 2014) PLOS One

GreenBiz (23 JULY 2014) DuPont and GM’s lessons for closing in on zero waste

YouTube (6 JAN 2012) DuPont Building Innovations achieves zero landfill goal

Emory News Center (1 JUNE 2014) Mental health is public health
http://news.emory.edu/stories/2014/06/hspub_mental_health_at_rollins/campus.html

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