Throwing out the baby...

Keeping the Baby, Throwing out the Bathwater

A Distributed Generation Tariff (DGT) program to replace Ontario’s existing Feed-in Tariff (FIT) would have several benefits. For example, a DGT would play a useful role in facilitating the development of a wide range of innovative, small-scale electricity generating projects to help meet the province’s growing electricity demand. As such, it would have a positive environmental impact, reducing...

Throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

A Von Chris van Rossem, Beatrice Kogg und Oksana Mont lthough the European Commission launched the official debate on Integrated Product Policy (IPP) as early as 1998, attempts to date to develop a formal EU IPP policy framework have not yet materialised. On June 18, 2003, the Commission adopted its Communication titled „IPP, Buil ding on Environmental Life Cycle Thinking“, the much anticipated...

Not Throwing Baby Out with the Bathwater.

Are we throwing the baby out with the bath water?

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore aspects of the effectiveness of three pressure-redistributing support surfaces in routine clinical practice. METHOD A non-randomised prospective cohort study was used, with skin outcomes reported for 219 subjects at risk of pressure ulcer development. RESULTS Few instances of new pressure damage were observed; these related to specific clinical issues, ...

Throwing out the baby with the spa water?

Australia is now one of the safest countries in the world in which to be born. This is largely a result of the many advances in obstetric and neonatal medicine of the past 50 years. However, the "medicalisation" of birth has tended to diminish women's satisfaction with their experience of childbirth. It has been shown that women are most satisfied by care from a single practitioner, and when th...