Do You Know… the secret life of paper?

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Where does paper go when you recycle it? Why should you change your paper habits? What can you do to reduce your paper footprint? 

To learn what MSKCC is doing to reduce our paper footprint, see the 2010 poster on “Promoting A Sustainable Culture at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center“.

In addition, the center has been honored with the 2011 “Partner for Change” Award from Practice Greenhealth, a national membership organization for healthcare facilities committed to environmentally responsible operations. Congrats, everyone!

Blog Buzz: August 6 – August 12

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This week in the wide world of medical, science and librarianship blogs:

  • On The Blog That Ate Manhattan, Peggy Polaneczky, MD calls for an expansion of the NIH’s Medicine in the Media Course to encourage responsible reporting on health issues.
  • Alisha Miles is excited “Micromedex finally available in the Android Market“.
  • There is a cool thread of beautiful and iconic science images on Quora. Vote for your favorite! (Via Bertalan Mesko of ScienceRoll, whose vote is for this.)
  • An experimental treatment for leukemia and potentially other forms of cancer is generating a lot of buzz. Here is a piece from The Week and a nice post on it from Derek Lowe on In the Pipeline.