The sustainability category of health and wellness is both wide and deep. In this special collection our intention is to highlight voices of sustainability that are often lost in the sea of advertising by pharmaceutical and insurance companies for products and services. The information found on this site is not intended as recommendations for cures or a change in medical protocols, but, rather, an emphasis on innovative and fresh perspectives and ideas affecting the health and wellness of our citizens. Critical thinking, vision, and values are emphasized here on EarthSayers.
Curated by mokiethecat
Painted Nails Documentary (trailer) |
We witness the American dream crumble when Van Nguren, a Vietnamese nail salon worker, discovers her health problems, including two miscarriages, are the result of toxic chemicals in the products used in her salon. Van courageously becomes the first worker to testify in Congress against the cosmetic industry in over 30 years. Painted Nailsenters the rich culture of Vietnamese-American Van Hoang's bustling nail salon in the Mission District of San Francisco. The salon caters to a diverse clientele, women of African American, European, Latino, and Asian ethnicities, who come not only for the acrylic nails with original design each a miniature painting that might include gold stars, glittering palm fronds, or frolicking blue dolphins, but also for the caring environment. The salon clients beam as they hold up their vividly colored talons for the camera, in a proud display of their identity as women. Produced and directed by Dianne Griffen. Associate producer and translator is Nhung Pham. Website here. Published on Feb 9, 2016 EarthSayers Triet Dang; Dianne Griffen; Van NGuren |
What Really Matters at the End of Life by BJ Miller
Heroin Out Reach project- Barrios Unidos
Hiding in Plain Sight: What's Missing in Health Equity by Keri Norris
Painted Nails Documentary (trailer)
The Power of Embodying Your Energetic Heart: Shiva Rea
What is TEDMed?
Creative Stress: A Path for the Evolved Life by James O'Dea
Ending Homelessness: Pipe Dream or Possibility? by Nan Roman
Living in a Stressful Environment by Szuson Wong
A robot that cares
Reclaim Solitude | Raymond Kethledge | TEDxUofM
How Would You Fix the U.S. Health System?
Access to health care by 7 billion Others
Affordable universal healthcare access through autonomous mobile clinics
Robots in the operating room
Cannabis Tea in the Netherlands by Arno Hazecamp, PhD
End Malaria Now Video
IBM to Build First Ever 360 Degree View of Health
Take health care off the mainframe by Eric Dishman
Dr. Judith Orloff | Radical Empathy in the Workplace | Talks at Google
The Gift Of Forgiveness, With Katherine Schwarzenegger Pratt
Being Fearless: Van Jones Part 1
Sleepless in America from National Geographic
Survivor Cafe: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory
Moderning Medicare and Medicaid by Donald Berwick (2010)
Life-saving lessons in action by Richard Harding at TEDxAtlanta
The Good, the Bad and The Ugly of Retractions by Ivan Oransky
Take Care, Mr. Elson: A Hard Road to Health Insurance
Wellness and Coming Together to Learn From Each Other by Ginny Nadler
Medicine and Truth That Lasts by David Newman
The Science of Happiness During COVID-19 with D. Keltner
Health Care in Bolivia: Mano a Mano with Caterpillar
There Is No Controversy When It Comes to Contraception by Melinda Gates
Consumer Insights into Sustainable Brand Demand - Market Research
The Walkable City:Lessons from the U.S by Jeff Speck
Hospitals, Doctors, and Insurers Face COVID-19: Reports from the Field
I'm worried too by Donald Berwick
Let's build a health care system in Rwanda by Bill Clinton
Cannabis Therapeutics Conference (2012) with Andrew Weil, MD
Saving Lives through Clean Cookstoves by Ethan Kay
Sacha Warmi Center by Didier Lacaze in Ecuador
Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets by Mark Plotkin
Climate Change and Your Health
Reciprocal Healing: Nature, Health and Wild Vitality
Indigenous Perspective on Health & Wellness by Dave Courchene
The I-gene: Why We Need Goatherding in the Digital Age by Doug Fine
Food Is Joy | David Burke | TEDxAsburyPark
A Sustainable Death