Our fire beans are hot. A simple animated video that Marketing for Change made for the National Volunteer Firefighter Council lit up their Facebook page last week. The video quickly outstripped the […]

My college-age daughter, as a joke, recently did my astrological birth chart. Although some results rang true, others did not — just like my Myers-Briggs personality test.

The phrase I have heard over and over in liberal circles since the November election is, “we need to listen.”

The official theme at the frank conference last week in Florida — a SXSW-type gathering for social change communicators — was curiosity, but there was a parallel current running through the Ted-style […]

When the NBA announced last month that it was rebranding its Development League as the NBA Gatorade League, you could practically hear the groans of public health professionals across the nation.

 As researcher after researcher took the stage last week at the Climate & Health Summit organized by former Vice President Al Gore, the evidence mounted: climate change is not just bad for […]

With a massive teacher shortage looming in the Orlando area, the local school district recently put up an ad on a giant billboard just outside the main campus of the University of […]

When South Miami Mayor Philip K. Stoddard thinks about how to get his small Florida town to take action on climate change, he draws inspiration from The Music Man.

Until just a year or so ago, I often had to spend a lot of time explaining what I do. Outside of certain public health circles, few people had heard of the concept […]

The world is going to hell in a hand basket, and Americans are finally worrying about it.

I recently got a chance to have dinner with Brian Wansink. Brian is the guy who slimmed down Google, tricked school kids into choosing fruit instead of cookies, and designed the famous […]

Conservation campaigns love to tell people “every drop counts” (do a quick Google search to see how often this is used). And I agree that each drop should count. But when I […]