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A Community Guide to Environmental Health

Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem
Paperback, 600 pages, illustrated
ISBN: 978-0-942364-56-9

From toilets to toxics, from watershed management to waste management, from raising crops to rising temperatures, how we use natural resources affects our health and well-being.

This highly illustrated guide helps health promoters, development workers, environmental activists, community members and leaders take charge of their environmental health. In small villages and large cities, A Community Guide to Environmental Health provides the tools, knowledge, and inspiration to begin transforming the crisis in environmental health.

This book contains activities to stimulate critical thinking and discussion, inspirational stories, and instructions for simple health technologies such as water purification methods, safe toilets, and non-toxic cleaning products. 23 chapters cover topics including:

• preventing and reducing harm from toxic pollution
• forestry, restoring land, and planting trees
• protecting community water and watersheds
• food security and sustainable farming
• environmental health at home
• solid waste and health care waste
• how to reduce harm from mining, oil, and energy production

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