Insurance finding tool and oil spill video conference for health care professionals

A couple of small pieces of news from the internet today.

The US Department of Health and Human Services now provides a web tool for finding health insurance.  Check out this nifty new widget they created:

If you'd like the code for this widget and others, you can find it here.

Also newsworthy, there will be a statewide video conference for nurses, physicians, partners and stakeholders titled "Gulf Oil Spill 2010: Public Health Aspects" on Monday, August 30th starting at 1:30pm.  More information is available from this .pdf.  The speaker will be LuAnn White, the director of the Tulane Center for Applied Environmental Health (CAEPH), Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

With thanks to the Poynter Legislative Research Library for forwarding the links.

Green Libraries across the Atlantic

The British Library

The British Library received the 2010 London Green 500 Platinum award for reducing carbon emissions significantly.  The Platinum award is given right after the Gold award, which the library received in 2009.

This award was given as a result of the library's program of energy efficient lighting upgrades.  Highlights of this project include:

• Kings Library Tower LED lighting project, reducing CO2 emissions by 50%
• St Pancras public areas LED feature lighting project including the installation of 459 metres of LED linear lighting resulting in a reduction of power consumption from 50 W to 4.8 W per metre
• External St Pancras LED lighting projects including the installation of LEDs across external areas of the Library such as the Piazza and Poet’s Circle
• ‘Half Hourly; electricity and gas meter project’ to measure amount and times of usage at the Library’s site in Boston Spa, Yorkshire

As the national library of the United Kingdom, the British Library is home to a collection of over 150 million items collected over 250 years of history.
From the blog of Peter Scott.