| A Community Guide to Environmental Health | 
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Sales Rank: 850701
Category: Book
Authors: Jeff Conant, Pam Fadem
Publisher: Hesperian Foundation
Studio: Hesperian Foundation
Manufacturer: Hesperian Foundation
Label: Hesperian Foundation
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: 1 Cdr
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.7 x 0.5
ISBN: 0942364627
Dewey Decimal Number: 333
EAN: 9780942364620
ASIN: 0942364627
Publication Date: July 2008
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Product Description
From water quality to social inequality, from raising crops to rising temperatures, how we use natural resources afftects our health and well-being.
This highly-illustrated guide will help health promoters, educators, community leaders and ordinary people take charge of their communities' environmental health. In small villages and large cities, 'A Community Guide to Environmental Health' can provide tools, knowledge, and inspiration to begin transforming the global crisis in evironmental health.
This book contains activities to stimulate critical thinking and environmental change, dozens of stories of communitites in action, and instructions for making simple technologies to purify water, clean without toxics, get rid of pests, and more.
Like all Hesperian books, this title was developed in consultation with organizations from around the world, ensuring its appropriateness and usefulness for a variety of cultures and circumstances.
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Low-tech solutions for community living: Review by author of When Technology Fails August 20, 2008
Produced by the same people who publish Where There is No Doctor, this is an excellent, well illustrated guide for healthy, self-reliant living at a low-tech village level. It covers the gamut from dealing with toxic contamination from local mines or other industries, to village sewage sanitation for protecting the local water supply, to village health care, sustainable agriculture, pesticide and heavy metal issues, community renewable energy, community water systems, etc. A terrific resource guide for villages all over the world, especially those where corporate logging, mining, or manufacturing interests have had a negative impact on the health and welfare of the community. In addition to villages, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who wishes to live a relatively low-tech and low-impact lifestyle, whether on their own or as part of a self-reliant community.
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