Organizations

Hospitals struggle to get green-friendly (San Francisco Chronicle)

5 Jul 2008

With an unprecedented boom in California hospital construction, it makes sense that many health care organizations are trying to build greener, more environmentally conscious medical centers. But many of the energy-saving techniques used in standard...

Athlete databanks may be next anti-doping tool (USA Today)

4 Jul 2008

After a year filled with damaging doping news, government agencies and sports organizations are now looking to so-called "athlete passports" as a way to stanch the flow of performance-enhancing drugs into sports.These passports aren't little booklets with colorful stamps from foreign countries. They exist as computer files crammed with intimate and intricate details of an athlete's personal and ...

A Realization in Fairfax About Traffic and Housing (Washington Post)

4 Jul 2008

Affordable-housing problems are a perennial theme of conferences sponsored by state and local governments, professional organizations, and trade associations. Fairfax County, one of America's most affluent jurisdictions, recently came up with a smart variation on that theme for its latest housing summit: "The Intersection of Traffic and Workforce Housing."