Air Pollution Linked to Higher Heart Attack Risk

BETHESDA, Maryland, March 23, 2009 (ENS) – Scientific evidence is mounting that connects an increase in particulate air pollution with an increase in heart attacks and deaths. Research from the relatively new field of environmental cardiology includes a 16-year-long Harvard University study of six U.S. cities that found fine particulate pollution, even at levels below [...]

Sierra magazine | Idling cars are an economic and an environmental disaster

Harming the environment is no idle threat | Idling cars are an economic and an environmental disaster
Sierra magazine, March/April 2009 issue, p. 14
How many times have you sat in line for several minutes at a bank or fast-food drive-through and wondered how much gas you were wasting? Perhaps you even [...]

Every breath you take — air quality in Europe

Every breath you take — air quality in Europe
Courtesy of European Environment Agency (EEA)
Originally published Mar. 2009

The characters in this story are fictional. However the data are real. The story is set on 27 July 2008 when an air quality warning was issued in Brussels. Anna is 37 years old and [...]

Long-Term Ozone Exposure and Mortality | The New England Journal of Medicine | Study

Long-Term Ozone Exposure and Mortality
Michael Jerrett, Ph.D., Richard T. Burnett, Ph.D., C. Arden Pope, III, Ph.D., Kazuhiko Ito, Ph.D., George Thurston, Sc.D., Daniel Krewski, Ph.D., Yuanli Shi, M.D., Eugenia Calle, Ph.D., and Michael Thun, M.D.

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Comox councillor unhappy with ‘drive-thru’ approval

By Elaine Mitropoulos, Comox Valley Echo March 10, 2009

If Comox councillor Russ Arnott had his way, he wouldn’t let businesses pave paradise to put up a drive-thru.
Arnott, who sits on the community’s Business in Action committee, said businesses should be attracted to Comox for its “beauty.” Any corporations that demanded drive-thru accessibility, he said, [...]

What is the global-warming impact of the omnipresent drive-through?

February 25, 2009
Advice about recreational eating
Hey Mr. Green,
What is the global-warming impact of the omnipresent drive-through? Surely this has to be one of our biggest wastes of energy. –Robert in Biglerville, Pennsylvania
In drive-throughs or anyplace, idling is, to summon the old saying, the devil’s workshop. Every hour you [...]