In his innovative course, "Global Environment and Human Health", Dr Trevor Thompson is teaching Bristol medical students to diagnose and treat the planet.
Professor Ian Roberts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine points to the impact of oil prices on incidence of pedestrian injury, and talks of traffic, children and sewage.
When neurologist Jenny Vaughan enrolled her baby son at the hospital nursery, the staff were so wary of his reusable nappies that she had to interrupt her clinics to change them herself. One year on and the whole nursery has gone disposable-free! Could NHS maternity units be next to follow?
