Tumblr Post Digest for hlthenvt

[My apologies for the messy formatting and duplicates. I still can't get the Yahoo Pipes Cleaner to work properly. It isn't collecting all requested and doesn't clean up after itself. But the links should all work.]
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Tumblr Regular Post Digest for hlthenvt [Not much of a weekly update, eh?]

[trash] Plastic bags banished from Old Crow

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2008/07/22/oldcrow-bags.html?ref=rss
People in the isolated Gwich’in community of Old Crow, Yukon, are using
plastic bags – more precisely, the absence of them – to help make a
stand against oil drilling in Alaska.

[environmental change, tundra] SNRAS scientists’ work featured on [...]

Tumblred weeks of 25may, 1june, 8june 2008

[aging, Liz Taylor] How to Find an eldercare provider that is right for your parents

[anthropology, rural development] College student opens Kotzebue fabric shop

[rural, remote] Regional inequality rampant in provision of basic services in Finland

[energy, rural] Fuel prices to rise with first fuel barge shipment

[public involvement, watsan, CBR] A Community Guide to Environmental Health

[aging] World Elder [...]

Trash money available SWMP

Not a lot of money for clean-up or closing but the projects eligible are broad.
Solid Waste Management – Region 10 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 10, requests proposals for Solid Waste Management Assistance Grants. Projects may include studies, surveys, investigations, demonstrations, training, and public education programs. Project priority areas include: Reducing [...]

Tumblr for week of 2008mar15

[bird flu, public inv] KLTV8 wins national award for bird flu program
KLTV8, the city of Lakewood’s cable station, and its partners have been honored with a 2008 Bronze Telly Award for the educational program Bird Flu: … http://denver.yourhub.com/Lakewood/Stories/Milestones/Awards/Story~442044.aspx We could use a multimedia campaign regionally. Risk communication…

[math] 3.14 and the rest
jc saw this story on [...]

Anthropology in a climate of change, war, and internecine environments 1

[In process]
Background*
Part 1**
Part 2*** [separate post]
* Background
I think there is a need for anthropological perspective in any issue of human existence.
It is a sad irony that the discipline (science) which is most comprehensive and fundamental (science is a human activity and the basic science of human activity is anthropology) has often seemed through its [...]

Alaska at the national anthropology conference 2007

106th AAA (American Anthropological Association) Annual Meeting Nov 28 – Dec 2, 2007 Washington, DC
The abstracts are not on-line, but it may be possible to do an Internet search on the author’s names to find their contact information.
Governing the Harvest: Law and Subsistence Hunting in Alaska
Session Title: Legal Pluralism and Popular Justice
Start Date:
Session Time: -
Type: [...]

E Holomoana Käkou I Mua” – Nutes tai dathl ~ To Journey Forward Together

This looks to be a very interesting opportunity in Alaska to find out more about civic groups in Hawai’i and their work on grassroots organization and governance, tradition, sustainability and development, education, and fun. The convention is for registered participants. However, there is a public open house on the evening of the 16th. I put [...]

What’s Up for Alaska environmental issues

This is a great weekly E-mail newslist of events of interest, notices of regulatory hearings, grants available, training, internships, etc. related to the environment. I put a couple of examples below.

>WHAT’S UP – Compiled Weekly by Peg Tileston
On behalf of the Alaska Women Environmental Network (| AWEN |), Alaska Center for the Environment (ACE), [...]

Adverse birth outcomes associated with open dumpsites in Alaska Native Villages

Adverse birth outcomes associated with open dumpsites in Alaska Native Villages.
Gilbreath S, Kass PH
Am J Epidemiol. 2006 Sep 15; 164(6): 518-28

This retrospective cohort study evaluated adverse birth outcomes in infants whose birth records indicated maternal residence in villages containing dumpsites potentially hazardous to health and environment. Birth records from 1997 to 2001 identified 10,073 eligible [...]

Rural SWMP Solid Waste Management Planning

I’m trying to assemble what I have used when working with rural communities on their solid waste. I hope these materials will be useful to others. These materials may be modified to suit others. Unless otherwise noted, this Rural SWMP work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License

Of course, if you would like [...]

Rural SWMP Solid Waste Management Planning

I’m trying to assemble what I have used when working with rural communities on their solid waste. I hope these materials will be useful to others. These materials may be modified to suit others. Unless otherwise noted, this Rural SWMP work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License

Of course, if you would [...]