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When Worlds Collide #119: Long way to lowering Lanka’s Deadly Diesel Hazard
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 29 August 2014 Progress is slow and incremental. Those who take all-or-nothing positions often end up with…nothing. So let’s hail Sri Lanka’s leading petroleum distributor introducing a … Continue reading
Posted in Air Pollution, Biofuels, Business & Commerce, Communicating Development, Energy Conservation, Environment, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Public policy, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Transport, Urban issues
Tagged air quality, Air Resource Management Center (AirMAC), Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, ‘Lanka Super Diesel 4 Star’, cancer, carcinogen, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), diesel subsidy, diesel sulphur content, Dr Sunil Chandrasiri, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), National Environmental Act, PM10, Professor Oliver Ileperuma, Sri Lanka air pollution, sulphur dioxide, super diesel, UN Environment Programme (UNEP), World Health Organisation (WHO)
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When Worlds Collide #115: Fast-tracking Road Safety in Sri Lanka
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 18 July 2014 The Apollo 8 space mission, which lasted from 21 to 27 December 1968, was the first time that a manned spacecraft left Earth orbit, … Continue reading
Posted in Air Pollution, Communicating Development, Disaster, Education, Environmental management, Poverty, Public health, Public perceptions, Public policy, Road Safety, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Transport, Urban issues
Tagged Achini C Jayatilleke, Apollo 8, Astronaut Bill Anders, ‘pirimi kama’ (masculinity), ‘Transport for Health: The Global Burden of Disease from Motorized Road Transport’, celestial mechanics, Decade of Action for Road Safety, Dr Achala Upendra Jayatilleke, Dr Jim Yong Kim, Dr Samath D Dharmarathne, Global Burden of Disease 2010 report, Global status report on road safety 2013, helmet use, Isaac Newton, National Council for Road Safety (NCRS), Peradeniya University, road safety, road traffic crashes, testosterone, The Lancet, World Health Organisation (WHO)
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When Worlds Collide #109: Huffing and puffing over Tobacco in Sri Lanka
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today newspaper on 31 May 2014 Tobacco control presents formidable policy dilemmas. It isn’t a simple or simplistic battle between ‘good’ and ‘evil’ as anti-tobacco activists would make us believe. … Continue reading
Posted in Air Pollution, Business & Commerce, Communicating Development, Conspiracy Theories, Education, Poverty, Public health, Public policy, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Youth
Tagged Alcohol and Drug Information Centre (ADIC), Anti-tobacco messaging, BAT, beedis, Beyond Rhetoric, British American Tobacco, Ceylon Tobacco Company, cigarettes, cigars, Dr. Palitha Abeykoon, Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), health hazards, National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol (NATA), Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs), personal lifestyle choice, policies to reduce tobacco, Prof Narada Warnasuriya, smokers’ mind, Sri Lanka Medical Association (SLMA), tobacco, tobacco consumption, Tobacco control, Tobacco in Lanka, World Health Organisation (WHO), World No Tobacco Day
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When Worlds Collide #103: Combating Dengue, a ‘Silent Disaster’
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today broadsheet newspaper on 18 April 2014 The theme for World Health Day, observed on April 7, was vector-borne diseases – a major public health challenge in the tropics. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Biodiversity, Climate change, Communicating Development, Disaster, Disaster Communication, Education, Environment, Environmental management, Poverty, Public health, Public perceptions, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Urban issues
Tagged Aedes aegypti, Aedes albopictus, ‘silent disasters’, chikungunya, climate change, Climate connection to dengue fever, dengue, dengue fever (DF), dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), Dengue in Sri Lanka, Dengue is preventable, dengue mosquitoes, dengue virus, Dengue: Turning up the volume on a silent disaster, Dr F Noordeen, Dr P D N N Sirisena, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), International Journal of Infectious Diseases, Japanese encephalitis, lymphatic filariasis, malaria, mosquitoes, Small Bite Big Threat, vector-borne diseases, Walter Cotte, WHO, World Health Day, World Health Organisation (WHO), yellow fever.
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When Worlds Collide #89: Our Long Road to Cleaner and Safer Cities…
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 27 October 2013 Indian environmental activist Sunita Narain was seriously injured while cycling in New Delhi last Sunday, October 20. She was hit by a car while … Continue reading
Posted in Air Pollution, Business & Commerce, Communicating Development, Disaster, Disaster Communication, Education, Environment, Environmental management, Environmental policy, Green Economy, Poverty, Public health, Road Safety, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Sustainable Development, Transport, Urban issues
Tagged air pollution can cause cancer, Altaf Makhiawala, Anumita Roychowdhury, ‘cycle satyagraha’, Bogotá, bus rapid transit system, car centred cities, Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), cycling accident, cycling in New Delhi, Decade of Action for Road Safety, eco-mobility, Enrique Peñalosa, Global status report on road safety 2013, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi, International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Kolkata, non-motorised transport, Sunita Narain, University of Michigan, World Health Organisation (WHO)
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When Worlds Collide #86: Haunted by Twenty-first Century Demons?
Text of my ‘When Worlds Collide’ column published in Ceylon Today Sunday broadsheet newspaper on 6 October 2013 Meet the 21st Century Demons! That was how I started a recent talk to the annual scientific sessions of the College of Community Physicians … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Development, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, Education, Public health, Public perceptions, Sri Lanka
Tagged 21st Century Demons, ‘infertility plot’, Carl Sagan, College of Community Physicians Sri Lanka, common sense, Dosthara Wisthara, Dr Ariyasena U Gamage, Dr Rohan Samarajiva, Flat Earth Society, genetically modified organisms (GMO), healthy dose of scepticism, Immunization, pseudoscience, radiofrequency fields, Sri Lanka's mobilephobia, vaccines, World Health Organisation (WHO), X Files
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