[afro-nets] New Hesperian Community Guide to Environmental Health

["Leela McCullough" <leela@healthnet.org>]

Cross-posted from "HIF-net" <hif-net@dgroups.org> 

Hesperian announces our newest publication!
A Community Guide to Environmental Health

>From water quality to social inequality, from toilets to toxics, from raising crops to rising temperatures, how we use natural resources affects our health and well-being. This highly illustrated guide will help health promoters, development workers, educators, activists, and community leaders take charge of their communities' environmental health.

A Community Guide to Environmental Health covers preventing and reducing harm from toxic pollution, protecting community water and watersheds, reducing harm from mining, oil, and energy production, farming sustainability and building food security, disposing of solid waste and health care waste, and restoring land, caring for forests, and planting trees. 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 environmental health.

"This timely guide is the Where There Is No Doctor of community water, sanitation and environmental health. It makes water, health and hygiene accessible to those who need it most. Focusing on the important intersection of public health and risk reduction at the community level FOR the community, this guide is literally a lifesaver."

- Miriam Aschkenasy, MD, Public Health Specialist, Oxfam America

A Community Guide to Environmental Health can be purchased in book form for $28 plus shipping at our online store at www.hesperian.org, by emailing bookorders@hesperian.org, or by calling 1-510-845-4507 or toll-free 1-888-729-1796 (within the USA). Order five or more and get a 20% discount! This book is also available on CD for $18. The book and CD together as a set is only $36, a savings of $10.

Also check out our other environmental materials, including Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground, edited by Laura Allen and Cleo Woelfle-Erskine; Building without Borders: Sustainable Construction for the Global Village, edited by Joseph F. Kennedy; and the DVD The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard, all available on our website.

Thanks to all of you who continue to make Hesperian and our books a growing success around the world!

Our postal address is 
1919 Addison St., Suite 304
Berkeley, California 94704
United States

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Leela McCullough, Ed.D.
Director of Information Services
AED-SATELLIFE Center for Health Information and Technology
30 California Street, Watertown, MA 02472, USA
Tel: +617-926-9400    Fax: +617-926-1212
Email: lmccullough@aed.org
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