Dr Shawn G. Gibbs joins Ethics Talk to discuss industrial hygiene, biocontainment, and how to build more sustainable health systems. 

A star-filled sky has long been a source of awe and inspiration, and its loss adversely affects human, nonhuman, and environmental health.

Individuals and communities have rights to not have their space impinged upon by hostile urban plans, designs, or development.

The concept stewardship borrows from collective action problems that cannot be solved by individuals only, just like those discussed in environmental ethics.

Healthy Housing Omaha, an environmental health nonprofit, partnered with an artist and a newspaper to raise awareness of lead poisoning.

The volume of hazardous health care waste is a global problem and its disposal can be environmentally damaging.

Government- and industry-funded campaigns for medication disposal do work, but responsibility often falls on local health care organizations to provide education and services.

Mismanagement of hospital waste can release harmful, deleterious contaminants into soil, water, and air and can have far-reaching environmental and public relations consequences.

There are 5 things every clinician should know about why environmental threats matter to human and nonhuman animals’ health.

Health care generates a lot of waste that enters landfills, oceans, and incinerators and adversely affects communities close to waste processing and disposal areas.