Calvert Henderson Quality of Life Indicators - The Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators are a contribution to the worldwide effort to develop comprehensive statistics of national well-being that go beyond traditional macroeconomic indicators. A systems approach is used to illustrate the dynamic state of our social, economic and environmental quality of life. The dimensions of life examined include: education, employment, energy, environment, health, human rights, income, infrastructure, national security, public safety, re-creation and shelter

Ethical Markets Television -Global Green Economist, Hazel Henderson launched Ethical Markets Media, LLC. This media channel is a partnership with PBS (45M viewers) and now the first TV financial lifestyle magazine. This media network is reporting on new definitions of success, continues to expand its coverage. The TV series features over 80 renowned experts providing insights on topics such as green building, renewable energy, community investing, global citizenship, fair trade, socially responsible investing. These programs are now being made available around the clock to the approximately 80 Million established internet viewers. Hazel draws from a network of experts who built the the frontier of Social Responsibility Investment Indexing, including Amy Domini, Domini Investments; Wayne Silbey, Calvert Investments, Joan Bavaria, Trillium Asset Management and Timothy Smith, Walden Asset Management.

CHE - Are you confused by how factors you read about reports on environmental contaminants and how they potentially cause harm to the health of our communities? Collaboration for Health and the Environment is a non-profit that has joined a ntional group non-profit and individuals, who have come together to cooperate and learn how to translate blue chip environmental science into practical applications in the servic of individuals and communities.   Through a monthly newsletter and teleconferences, CHE educates its members on the most current issues in environmental health and the treatment of disease that is complicated by environmental contaminants. You can join CHE simply by signing up for CHE's newsletter.

FasterCures has dedicated itself to building a hub or communities that are continuously investigating medicine and scientific research to deliver the fastest cure possible.   Within this community are patients, researchers, medical practitioners, legislators and policy makers form smaller communities of practice to either synthesize best possible practice or investigate forms of practice leadership that will change the way we treat complicated and challenging disease.   Fastercures.org synthesizes one of the best quality newsletters on current issues in health care and health care information technology.

Clinical Focus grew out of the understanding that physicians in the information age must rely on emerging literature to properly treat their patients, the rapid growth in this literature has made it increasingly difficult. The sheer volume of new articles appearing weekly (over 1,000 articles in the English language alone) makes it all but impossible to scan each of the new medical journals as they appear, to identify those items of potential interest, to read them in a timely fashion, and to save them for future reference. The piles of journals sitting on many practitioners’ desks (mostly unread) bear testimony to this state of affairs. Although some of this information is useful to them, most isn't. The physician must increasingly rely on email notifications from the journals (“Editor’s Picks”), reprints from pharmaceutical manufacturers, news media stories, and word of mouth from colleagues to point them to articles about new therapeutic developments that may be useful in clinical practice.

The greater availability of information about medical literature through the Internet, e.g., 'Medline', has only exacerbated this problem. To access the literature, the user must institute the search at each occasion and generate the specific search terms used for delimiting the selection of items, e.g., keywords. Often these searches also provide much that is irrelevant. The mission of Clinical Focus, therefore, has been to save physicians time in their task of keeping apprised of changes in clinical practice.

UptoDate.com is a non profit publisher of the most current treatment information for illnesses by medical specialty. Drawing on its relationships with numerous clinical physician specialty groups and the intelligence of the evidential based medicine thought leadership, Up to Date continuously updates its archives of treatments by specialty and illness. These treatment plans are based on research and science that is not influence by commercial interests. Up to Date is the resource for 80% of medical students and residents in training and in daily use by many physicians in group practices and HMO's around the country.