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By Joe Sarcone It’s not enough to want to help people. Like the ubiquitous white plastic bags that blow across the tundra and catch on the alder branches, we come into…
The relationship we have with our environment helps us to define our view of a sustainable world. When we set about creating a sustainable world the first thing we must…
It is difficult to acknowledge loss where it is misunderstood. Do we have the capacity to recognize that our actions can at times result in loss for those we are…
Social vulnerability is a pre-existing condition that affects a society’s ability to prepare for and recover from a disruptive event. Social vulnerability is applied primarily to natural hazards and disasters…
Each of us has a shared system of beliefs and values that systematically define our way of perceiving the world. Our belief systems influence our reasoning and affect our decisions.…
Joe Sarcone
Somewhere
between our mission and the work that we do everyday rests the plight
of the underserved. How can this gap exist? More often…
Joe Sarcone
Each
week throughout the first year of my work with the Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) I selected one word to reflect
on.…
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said it most eloquently, “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment.…
Cultural Toxicology & Indigenous Populations
By Joe Sarcone According to the World Health Organization (WHO) chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer and diabetes are the leading cause of mortality in the world. Out of…
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