PLANETARY HEALTH WEEKLY

I know I am among friends, so forgive the informality. Editor David, thank you for the opportunity to share a few ideas for a brand new 2024! I am writing from Pilot Projects, a Montreal based systems thinking and design company with the ambitious mission to “co-create a better world”. Our work takes the form of pilot projects that always aim

(from the Planetary Health Weekly, Vol. 9, No. 46, November 16, 2023) How to understand our world today that appears to be in a genuine mess? The Planetary Health Weekly (PHW) lays out so many issues regarding global warming (or the climate crisis) but let’s consider the context in which they occur. In my 4th blog in April 2022, I

“The Plughole Problem – Part A” Milner on Biodiversity As you may have noticed there’s been a good deal of hullabaloo about plastics in the environment recently, with various meetings and conferences aiming to produce ‘a binding international plastics treaty’. All very laudable and at the least attracting attention to the worldwide problem of plastic waste that affects virtually all

HI KETAN!! and thanks so much for all your work on the climate crisis, and in particular for the piece I just read about carbon offsets. It’s great and very much appreciated. I sense that you do most of this work as a ‘volunteer’ which would be like me, a retired prof of health management, global health and ecology. I