Healthy Living Healthy Planet Radio
289 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHealthy Living Healthy Planet Radio, with weekly broadcasts on iHeart talk radio.. KFXR1190AM at 3 p.m. Saturdays, is about more than just the environment. It’s more than just healthy living. Host Bernice Butler and featured guests examine topics and explore the inextricable relationship between your health and the health of our planet. Each one-hour program goes beyond the headlines to explore how myriad environmental issues we face today—climate change, plastic pollution, renewable energy, water, food justice and more—affect and influence the health and wellbeing of each and every one of us. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/healthy-radio/support
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EP 153 - Economics of Waste & Waste Mgt and Circular Economy
December 18, 2022 04:59 - 50 minutes - 47.1 MBWaste ManagementWaste is not only an environmental problem, but also an economic loss. When resources are produced and used in ways that lead to their disposal as waste, the loss of those resources is an economic loss. When resources can be saved, reused, recovered or used more efficiently, there is a net economic gain. Waste is part of the economy – it is a by-product of economic activity, by businesses, government and households. Large amounts of waste are generataed minute by minute in ...
EP 153 - Waste Management
December 18, 2022 04:59 - 50 minutes - 47.1 MBWaste Management --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 152 - Waste Management
December 11, 2022 03:59 - 50 minutes - 47.1 MBWaste Management --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 152 - Waste & Waste Mgt: Environmental Intersection of our Consumption-based Culture & its Waste Generation
December 11, 2022 03:59 - 50 minutes - 47.1 MBVirtually every resident, organization, and human activity in the U.S./the world generates some type of waste. Many different types of waste are generated, including municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, industrial non-hazardous waste, agricultural and animal waste, medical waste, radioactive waste, construction and demolition debris, extraction and mining waste, oil and gas production waste, fossil fuel combustion waste, and sewage sludge – and more including clothing waste. Waste genera...
EP 151 - Waste Management
December 04, 2022 05:59 - 50 minutes - 47.1 MBWaste & Waste Management --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 151 - Extreme Weather Events – Cold Snaps & Extreme Cold
December 04, 2022 05:59 - 48 minutes - 45.3 MBWhile it does not affect as many people as its opposite, extreme heat does, extreme cold can be just as deadly, especially in areas that are not accustomed to cold weather. As with extreme heat, extreme cold has a variable definition depending on the location and how accustomed the population is to those temperatures. For example, people who live in a temperate state such as Florida may find 50 degrees chilly or cold, while those who live in colder states such as Minnesota may find 50 degre...
EP 150 - Extreme Weather Events: Extreme Heat and the health impact
November 20, 2022 04:59 - 47 minutes - 44.4 MBExtreme heat can increase the risk of other types of disasters. Heat can exacerbate drought, and hot, dry conditions - that can in turn create wildfire conditions. Buildings, roads, and infrastructure absorb heat, leading to temperatures that can be 1 to 7 degrees F hotter in urban areas than outlying areas – a phenomenon known as the urban heat island effect. This impact is most intense during the day, but the slow release of heat from the infrastructure overnight can keep cities much hot...
EP 150 - Extreme Weather Events
November 20, 2022 04:59 - 47 minutes - 44.4 MBExtreme Weather Events --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 149 - Extreme Weather Events: Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Storms & Floods
November 13, 2022 04:59 - 47 minutes - 44.1 MBExtreme weather continues to swell like US coastlines during high tide. And with it comes the realization that the climate changes we were warned about are already here. For decades the core question in the public debate over global warming was: Will all these scientific projections come true? Now, Britain has had its hottest summer ever and New Zealand its third-warmest winter in a row. The Rhine, Danube, Yangtze, and Colorado rivers dried out, interrupting commerce and power generation. He...
EP 148 - Extreme Weather Events: The health and environmental impacts of Wildfires, Droughts & Winds
November 06, 2022 04:59 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBIn the early 2000s, a new field of climate-science research emerged that began to explore the human fingerprint on extreme weather, such as floods, heatwaves, droughts and storms. Known as “extreme event attribution”, the field has gained momentum, not only in the science world, but also in the media and public imagination. These studies have the power to link the seemingly abstract concept of climate change with personal and tangible experiences of the weather. Scientists have published m...
EP 147 - Climate Change
October 30, 2022 02:59 - 46 minutes - 43.4 MBClimate Change --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 147 - Climate Change- Looking Forward: the most Promising & Emerging Climate Change Mitigation.
October 30, 2022 02:59 - 46 minutes - 43.4 MBThe climate crisis is increasingly marching forward Fortunately, there are many things we can do to ensure our future is as prosperous as possible. These actions fall into one of two broad categories: climate change adaptation and climate change mitigation. These terms go hand-in-hand while navigating through the climate crisis, but they mean very different things. Climate change mitigation means avoiding and reducing emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere to preven...
EP 146 - Climate Change
October 23, 2022 02:59 - 51 minutes - 48.1 MBClimate Change --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 146 - The Politics of Climate Change and How it Affects our Economic Future
October 23, 2022 02:59 - 51 minutes - 48.1 MBThe success of the recently enacted climate change legislation shows how the politics of climate change have shifted profoundly since scientists began years ago, warning about how human-caused emissions would warm the planet. Whereas President Jimmy Carter once pushed clean energy as a matter of personal, moral responsibility, the new bill treats climate change as a pragmatic pocketbook matter of consumer rebates and corporate tax incentives. Whereas climate change once seemed distant, it...
EP 145 - Climate Change, Asthma and Allergies – How is it Changing or Everyday lives and Health
October 16, 2022 03:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBThe World Health Organization says Climate change is the single biggest health threat facing humanity, and health professionals worldwide are already responding to the health harms caused by this unfolding crisis. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that to avert catastrophic health impacts and prevent millions of climate change-related deaths, the world must limit temperature rise to 1.5°C. Climate change is already impacting health in a myriad of ways, incl...
EP 145 - Climate Change
October 16, 2022 03:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBClimate Change --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 144 - Climate Change: State of the Planet
October 13, 2022 03:32 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MBWithin the lifetime of anyone born at the start of the Baby Boom, the human population has tripled. In the 1960s, humans took about three-quarters of what the planet could regenerate annually. By 2016 this rose to 170 percent, meaning that the planet cannot keep up with human demand, and we are running the world down. Humans have altered about 70 percent of Earth’s land surface and ocean. Wetlands have lost 85 percent of their natural area; the ocean’s large predatory fish are two-thirds go...
EP 143 - Climate Change
October 02, 2022 03:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBClimate Change --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 143 - Climate Change: What is Climate Change- How do we know it when we see It?
October 02, 2022 03:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBThe effects of human-caused climate change are happening now. There seems to be almost universal agreement among scientists that earth will continue to earm and the Effects will be profound. Effects that scientists had long predicted would result from global climate change are now occurring, such as sea ice loss, accelerated sea level rise, and longer, more intense heat waves. In fact, some changes (such as droughts, wildfires, and extreme rainfall) are even happening faster than scientis...
EP 142 - Children experience 83% of the burden of our environmental issue impacts.
September 29, 2022 02:11 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBAccording to the World Health Organization, reducing environmental risks could prevent 1 in 4 child deaths. In 2012, 1.7 million deaths in children under five were attributable to the environment. These included 570 000 deaths from respiratory infections, 361 000 deaths from diarrhea, 270 000 deaths from neonatal conditions, 200 000 deaths from malaria and 200 000 deaths from unintentional injuries. One example of what reduced risk can accomplish is - CONSEQUENCES OF REMOVAL OF LEAD FROM GA...
EP 141 - The Economics of Environmental Justice & Impacts on Everyone’s Pocketbook
September 11, 2022 01:04 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MBLocating polluting facilities in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color means that people with marginalized identities experience more asthma, a greater likelihood of heart attacks, even premature death. The disadvantages that come with these health issues, like missing school, create a cycle of poverty and lack of access to opportunity that spans generations and shapes every part of the experience of being a person of color or low-income person in the United States. And, as our ...
EP 141 - Environmental Justice
September 11, 2022 01:04 - 49 minutes - 45.9 MBEnvironmental Justice --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 140 - Environmental Justice - The equal access to a healthy, safe, and sustainable environment.
September 04, 2022 01:00 - 47 minutes - 44.4 MBEnvironmental factors such as air and water quality are fundamental determinants of our health and well-being. Environmental factors can lead to disease and health disparities when the places where people live, work, learn, and play are burdened by social inequities. These social inequities, often referred to as social determinants of health, include differences in individual behaviors, cultural influences, access to health services, economic status, and literacy levels. Environmental heal...
EP 140 - Environmental Justice
September 04, 2022 01:00 - 47 minutes - 44.4 MBEnvironmental Justice --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
Episode 139: Renewable Energy & Electric Vehicles: State of their Impact on the Environment
August 29, 2022 18:04 - 48 minutes - 45.1 MBThe transition to an environmentally sustainable economy will take at least a generation, if not a bit longer. And at the end of the journey, we will not emerge with a pristine planet. The goal is to minimize the damage we humans inflict on the planet; because the damage will probably never be totally eliminated. There are too many of us and too little planet to eliminate destruction. We need to understand our impacts and reduce them as much as possible. Our principal goal should be to mitig...
EP 138 - Air Pollution and Transportation - The Chronic Disease Toll of Air Pollution
August 23, 2022 07:08 - 49 minutes - 45.8 MBAir pollution is a familiar environmental health hazard. We know what we’re looking at when brown haze settles over a city, exhaust billows across a busy highway, or a plume rises from a smoke stack. Some air pollution is not seen, but its pungent smell alerts you. It is a major threat to global health and prosperity. Air pollution, in all forms, is responsible for morethan7milliondeathseachyearglobally, a number that has increased over the past two decades. Air pollution is contamination of...
EP 137 - Air Pollution and Transportation
August 14, 2022 05:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBAir Quality and Transportation --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
Episode 137 - Air Quality & Transportation - Why our Transportation Impacts Climate Change so Much
August 14, 2022 05:00 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBThe U.S. transportation sector is responsible for about a third of our country’s climate-damaging emissions. Cars aren’t the only vehicles that pollute — airplanes, ships and trains produce a large portion of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. Yale Climate Connections asked: How can American society reconcile people’s seemingly boundless love affair with their vehicles with the need to reduce carbon emissions? Mobility clearly is essential to economic growth, but in our carbon-based wo...
EP 136 - Air Pollution and Transportation - Trouble in the Air: Current & Future Challenges with our Air Quality
August 07, 2022 10:57 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBAccording to the EPA, great progress has been made in achieving national air quality standards, which EPA originally established in 1971 and updates periodically based on the latest science. One sign of this progress is that visible air pollution is less frequent and widespread than it was in the 1970s. However, air pollution can be harmful even when it is not visible. Newer scientific studies have shown that some pollutants can harm public health and welfare even at very low levels. Today...
EP 136 - Air Pollution and Transportation - Trouble in the Air
August 07, 2022 10:57 - 50 minutes - 46.3 MBAir Pollution and Transportation - Trouble in the Air --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 135 - Health and Environmental Impacts of our Food Production - Profitable coexistence between Food production and Ag Pollution
August 01, 2022 18:13 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBFrom fertilizer runoff to methane emissions, large-scale industrial agriculture pollution takes a toll on the environment. However, Agriculture is the world's largest industry. It employs more than one billion people and generates over $1.3 trillion dollars worth of food annually. Pasture and cropland occupy around 50 percent of the Earth’s habitable land and provide habitat and food for a multitude of species. Agriculture—including how we grow, raise, transport, process, and even store fo...
EP 135 - Health and Environmental Impacts of our Food Production
August 01, 2022 18:13 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBHealth and Environmental Impacts of our Food Production --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 134 - Health and Environmental Impacts of our Food Production - Intersection of Climate Change with Food we Eat & Food we Don’t Eat
July 24, 2022 02:11 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBAs dramatically as climate change stands to literally remap the planet, no effects will be more profound than those on our food system. Climate change is reshaping the life that once teemed in our oceans, and that billions of people rely on for sustenance; it’s complicating the growing conditions for everything from everyday lettuce to rarefied truffles; and it’s making the act of eating beef more indefensible with each passing year. Even if you’ve had the luxury of paying no mind to climate...
EP 134 - Health and Environmental Impacts of our Food Production
July 24, 2022 02:11 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBHealth and Environmental Impacts of our Food Production --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 133 - Health & Environmental Impacts of our Food Production - Global Agriculture under pressure
July 18, 2022 13:44 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MBBy 2050 we’ll need to feed 2 billion more people. How can we do that without overwhelming the planet? And, perhaps overwhelming our pocketbooks as well. Todays guest has written - The numbers of hungry people are rising again, with hunger concentrated in fragile, conflict-, and climate-affected regions where production and trade are disrupted. Concerns are growing that the environmental costs and health impacts associated with the prevailing model of agricultural production are unaccepta...
EP 132 - The intersection of Food Production with Economics and Environment
July 11, 2022 14:50 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBFood, which is the primary purpose of agriculture essential for all living organisms to survive and flourish, but for human beings, food transcends biological needs and has long been an integral part of social life and culture. Over the past century, the food system has done very well in producing enough food to outpace population growth and reducing the real price of food to make it more accessible. Indeed, agriculture is an economic engine and can help reduce poverty for 75% of the world's...
EP 131 - Health & Environmental Impacts of our Food Production, Agriculture and Land use.
July 04, 2022 10:03 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBCurrent Issues & Challenges affecting how we get healthy, accessible (affordable &available) food while protecting our environment that has to produce the food. For much of human history, most of the world’s land was wilderness. But, for the last few centuries, wild habitats have been squeezed out by turning it into agricultural land which supports our food production system. Agriculture is a major use of land. That is the necessary growth of our worlds food sources, plants and animals and...
EP 130 - Cancer on the rise: Intersection with Environmental Chemicals & toxic substances – Latest Research Discoveries
June 27, 2022 17:45 - 47 minutes - 44.1 MBSince the 1970s, more than 87,000 chemicals have been approved for commercial use. Yet of those thousands of chemicals, only just over one thousand have been formally examined and graded for their hazardous/cancer-causing potential. Of those, five hundred have been found worthy of being graded on a cautiously worded scale ranging from “known” cancer-causing. The National Institutes of Health says - It is ideal to adopt the Precautionary Principle: until a chemical is found to be harmless, ...
EP 130 - Hazardous Waste -Toxic Materials
June 27, 2022 17:45 - 47 minutes - 44.1 MBHazardous Waste -Toxic Materials --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 130 - Hazardous Waste -Toxic Materials: Cancer on the rise
June 27, 2022 17:45 - 47 minutes - 44.1 MBSince the 1970s, more than 87,000 chemicals have been approved for commercial use. Yet of those thousands of chemicals, only just over one thousand have been formally examined and graded for their hazardous/cancer-causing potential. Of those, five hundred have been found worthy of being graded on a cautiously worded scale ranging from “known” cancer-causing. The National Institutes of Health says - It is ideal to adopt the Precautionary Principle: until a chemical is found to be harmless, ...
EP 129 - Hazardous Waste -Toxic Materials
June 19, 2022 03:44 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBHazardous Waste -Toxic Materials --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 129 - Intersection of Chemicals & Toxic Materials and Climate Change
June 19, 2022 03:44 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBIf we say climate change, the first thing that pops into your heads is probably not the impact of toxic chemicals on the environment. Some people can probably name a chemical that contributes to climate change, whether that is carbon dioxide or methane. But what about many, many other chemicals that you are not as familiar with? Yes, chemical contributions directly to climate change are important, but this interplay is not the only consequence of mixing chemicals and climate change/there’s...
EP 128 - Hazardous Waste - Toxic Materials: Effects on our Health
June 13, 2022 13:56 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBToxic substances/pollutants are materials contaminating the environment that cause death, disease and/or birth defects in the organisms that ingest or absorb them. The quantities and length of exposure necessary to cause these effects can vary widely. Environmental toxins are cancer-causing chemicals and endocrine disruptors, both human-made and naturally occurring, that can harm our health by disrupting sensitive biological systems thus, messing- up the way the body was designed to work. ...
EP 128 - Hazardous Waste - Toxic Materials
June 13, 2022 13:56 - 47 minutes - 44.2 MBHazardous Waste - Toxic Materials --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 127 - Chemicals, Hazardous & Toxic Wastes: Effects on the Environment
June 06, 2022 13:17 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MBThe old saying, "what you don't know can't hurt you," isn't always good advice. When it comes to toxic substances, what you know can indeed help you. Some examples of what we didn’t know that does hurt us are radon in basements, lead in drinking water, exhausts from cars and chemicals released from landfills are just a few examples of toxic substances that can hurt you. By understanding how, we can reduce our exposure to chemicals and reduce our risk of harmful health effects and harm to ou...
EP 126 - Cities, Built Environment & Infrastructure: Trees and Urban Nature Spaces
May 30, 2022 15:32 - 47 minutes - 44.3 MBTrees an forests are an important part of any city, given that they provide several environmental benefits and urban nature in all its forms provide a range of benefits. How can we estimate values for the many indirect, intangible services and functions that urban nature provides, such as beauty, green infrastructure functions, and psychological benefits? So as a society we must ask ourselves, whats the value to us to aggressively regulate the rations of trees and urban natural spaces in ou...
EP 126 - Cities, Built Environment & Infrastructure: Trees & Forests
May 30, 2022 15:32 - 47 minutes - 44.3 MBCities, Built Environment & Infrastructure: Trees & Forests --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/healthy-radio/support
EP 125 - Cities, Built Environment & Infrastructure: The Indoor Environment
May 23, 2022 13:48 - 47 minutes - 44 MBOur indfoor Environment, how did it get the way it is and does it affect our health? The quality of our indoor environments does indeed affect our health and risks for many diseases are increased by indoor air pollutants, surface contamination with toxins and microbes while contact among people at home, at work, in transportation, and in many other public and private indoor places is unavoidable. Lately, shifting emphasis has led to a broadening focus on prevention but of course, first we...
EP 124 - Cities, Built Environment & Infrastructure: Healthy Cities, Healthy People
May 16, 2022 18:10 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBOur built environment includes all the human made physical spaces around us. It defines the spaces in which we live, work or play. These include our buildings, furnishings, open and public spaces, roads, utilities and other infrastructure. These structures and spaces affect our health by bringing pollutants into our environments and restricting our access to physical activity, transportation and social interactions. The built environment influences a person’s life and probably all activity. ...
EP 123 - Cities - Built Environments & Infrastructure
May 11, 2022 14:34 - 47 minutes - 44.3 MBHow does Infrastructure affect the health of our environment? Our health Infrastructure is the physical foundation. The facilities and structures of what our society needs to operate includes roads, highways, buildings, bridges, water, and energy. Cities around the United States are dealing without dated and aging infrastructure. As a country, we all experience and know we must now invest in infrastructure for a better future, and we must do so environmentally responsibly and equitably. We a...