The Power Struggle of Space and Race.

An interview with Cheryl Teelucksingh, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Ryerson University

By Julie Rempel

How do we address and challenge systemic racism in Canada when a great deal of the population believes racism no longer exists?

Women, food insecurity and obesity: why women should lead food policy

by Jenna Drabble

Food security has important implications for women’s health. Food security means that a person is able to access safe, nutritionally adequate and personally acceptable foods at all times in a dignified way.

In 2001, 9.2% of Canadian households were food insecure, most of which depended on social assistance as the primary source of income. In Manitoba women are more likely to live in poverty than men and therefore face the highest risk of food insecurity.

Babies damaged by women’s lifestyle choices?

Submitted by Tara Zupancic on Thu, 01/26/2012 - 16:26

By Tara Zupancic

Research and the media – it‘s a powerful partnership.  News media outlets often determine whether a research study gathers attention or dust. But sometimes the media makes such blunders that more harm than good results. For example, yesterday I read a news report on a Scottish study’s findings of significantly lower levels of DNA methylation during the embryonic development of babies living in socioeconomically deprived areas of Glasgow. 

New research on Canadian environmental organizations; We need to talk about “Just Sustainability”

by Randolph Haluza-DeLay and Heather Fernhout

In most people's minds, the environment is associated with “nature”. However, this mindset  may be a barrier to bridging with other sorts of progressive movements. In particular, as our recent research shows, there is a lack  of interest by Canadian environmental groups over the concerns for “social inclusion” that are at the heart of other civil society organizations.

Fresh produce, food banks, food security – exploring the links for healthy people and healthy communities

by Lynette Hornung

Having nurtured a burgeoning passion for growing, preparing and sharing food in recent years, (while also feeling the tension between living on a meagre income but benefitting from a position of privilege based on my education and skin colour), colleagues, friends and family should be unsurprised that my graduate studies prompted me to question the intersection of local food production, nutritional health, and food insecurity.

Director Bruce Mohun talks to CEHE about the origins of his new documentary: Programmed to be Fat?

I first heard the word ‘obesogens’ two years ago from a colleague, who had been trolling the web in search of stories.    “They’re chemicals that make us fat,” she said.  “Come on; we’re fat because we eat too much and we don’t exercise enough.”   “Well there’s this guy called Blumberg…”  Bruce Blumberg coined the term ‘obesogens’ in 2005, after getting the results of a ground-breaking study of pregnant lab mice fed a marine pesticide called tributyltin.

Environmental Justice in Canada: an interview with Dr. Michael Buzzelli

By Julie Rempel

What can citizens and researchers do to both raise awareness of and address environmental justice in decision making?

Traditionally, the researcher’s role has been to provide evidence and information regarding the specific environmental inequalities that are being studied. This information can be utilized in a variety of ways. One of the biggest ways is increasing awareness among the general public regarding the social, environmental and economic aspects of environmental justice.

Promoting Dialogue on EcoHealth: Student Opportunities

Submitted by Tara Zupancic on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 12:51

If you are a student of EcoHealth or environment and health, you may be interested in this opportunity to write and share your ideas through the EcoHealth Journal.  In a new proposed section called "Dialogues", students will have an opportunity to share brief articles and commentaries on a particular topic of interest .  The write-up will then be responded to by other EcoHealth professionals and  hopefully spark some lively and interesting discussion. But they want to hear from you by December 1st!

Revolutionizing How we Feed Cities

by Peter Ladner, Author

People ask me why, after 40 years in journalism, including 20-something years publishing a weekly business newspaper I co-founded, then 6 years on Vancouver City Council, I wrote a book about urban food systems. One reason is that I’ve always been passionate about growing food in my own garden, but a bigger reason is I’ve become obsessed with the positive benefits and urgent importance of bringing more local, fresh, affordable food into our lives.

At the Margins and in Deep: the need to prioritize equity for children’s environmental health

By Tara Zupancic

Children lead complicated lives. They are profoundly shaped by their environment and yet, simultaneously, have little control over it. Their food, home, school, neighborhood and play spaces set a critical cast for their well-being and they depend on the collective vision of grown-ups for how it all pans out.   If it takes a village to raise a child, what is the legacy we have created in Canada?

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