Posted in health, notes on the human condition, tagged church, effect, luck, mental, people, personal, circumstances, recovery, community, model, religious, fear, pride, consequences, spiritual, bonds, economic, identity, illness, loss, development, skills, researchers, chronic, breakdown, others, connection, outgroup, UCLA, distance between, job loss, social lives, US News and World Report, repercussions, reach out and touch someone, don't be a stranger, job, closing, relocating, out of business, involvement, participation, disconnect, sociologists, isolation, workforce, unemployed, layoff, laid off, notice, friends, fair weather, rejection, cave, artificial, friendships, commonalities, socialize, club, PTA, organization, service, group, University of California, Los Angeles, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, restructuring, Jennie E. Brand, reciprocal, social contract, 35 percent less likely, study, activities, Wisconsin high school graduates, 1957, Social Forces, long-term impact, reconnect, how to, apart, displaced, reestablish, normalcy, blessings, differences, groups, youth, professional, superficial, hard times, chips are down, difficult, challenges, job market, hermit, retreat, safety net, support group, meeting, lives, livelihood, affect, individuals, regroup, sever, break, lose, example, lonely, leave, join, commitment, effort, longitudinal, social science, charity, membership, nonprofit, implications, shorten, attendance, miss, prime of life, comparisons, envy, competition, caregiver, diagnosis, role, data, Bowling Alone, team, downsized, employees, tough times, cope, tough people, respond, needs, exclude, dignity, regain, connectedness, Easy Street, appearances, keeping up, Joneses, starting over, trials, hardship on July 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sociologists followed a Wisconsin graduating class for over 45 years and found that when career circumstances change for the worse, social ties tend to break. Hard times may be temporary, but the isolation may be permanent. Learn how to fight back.
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Posted in health, technology, tagged energy, price, Green, books, power, technology, trade, manufacturing, waste, public, children, hypocrisy, harm, planet, geek, nerd, love affair, workers, factories, print, production, biodegradable, gray side to green, myths, Kindle, gadgets, electronics, power grid, electricity, requirements, toxins, reproductive, scrap, recycling, carbon footprint, eco-conscious, free lunch, devices, disposable, Third World, dangers, trees, renewable, resources, heavy metals, petro, chemicals, plastics, PCs, computers, First World, carcinogenic, lead, server farm, footprint, megawatts, coal power, smokestacks, globe, USA Weekend, Vicki Kriz, online, Internet, world wide web, paperless, newspapers, data centers, Gaia, trendy, conscious, environmental, steward, clean, obsession, tech, grid, plants, load, demand, consumption, politics of green, perceptions, Jeff Monroe, network, computing, gear, Elinor Abreau, Industry Standard, recyclable, cultivated, petroleum products, Earth, appliance, high-tech, exposure, circuits, boards, reader, reading, calculate, quantify, equation, energy vampires, Silicon Valley, semi-conductor, electronic frontier, chips, e-waste, byproducts, smart, dumb, question, impact, environmental awareness quotient, green side, gray, area, forested, agriculture, land, nature, conservancy, woodland, e-lusion, integrated circuit, chip, territory, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Yahoo, green is gray, e-readers, hazardous, gasses, contaminated, sites, degradable, toxicity, Amazon, growing, public health, threat, solution, misinformation, simple, minimal, IT/IS, infrastructure, cost, human health, reality check, breaking point, overuse, limit, costly, costs, usage, population, web, net, paper vs. digital, book vs. Kindle, library vs. Internet, MEMEX, centralization, modernity, industrialization, researchers on July 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If you assume that replacing books, magazines and newspapers with Kindle and the Internet are eco-friendly tradeoffs, think again. Carbon footprints don’t tell all.
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Posted in health, tagged 911, chronic illness, disaster, doctors, drug, earthquake, emergency, ER, flood, health, healthcare, hurricane, insurance, kit, medication, medicine, natural disaster, pharmacy, plan, prepare, preparedness, prescription, prescriptions, refills, supplies, supply, tornado on August 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Disaster preparedness literature advocates stocking necessary medications, but those who are insured and require daily medications to treat asthma, diabetes or other chronic conditions may run into an unexpected and ironic obstacle: Many health insurance companies have no provision in place to allow subscribers to obtain doctor-authorized refills for use in an emergency kit.
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