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    Cancer : 101 solutions to a preventable epidemic / Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey and Anne Wordsworth.

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    • Title:Cancer : 101 solutions to a preventable epidemic / Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey and Anne Wordsworth.
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    • Author/Creator:Armstrong, Liz, 1945-
    • Other Contributors/Collections:Dauncey, Guy.
      Wordsworth, Anne, 1948-
    • Published/Created:Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, ©2007.

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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Cancer--Prevention.
      Carcinogens.
      Chemical carcinogenesis.
      Consumer education.
      Environmentally induced diseases--Prevention.
    • Description:xvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
    • Series:Solutions Project (Series)
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780865715424
    • Contents:Pt. 1. global epidemic
      Pt. 2. 101 solutions
      Ten solutions for individuals
      1. Open your eyes
      2. Adopt healthy habits
      3. Avoid all tobacco smoke
      4. Eat a healthy diet
      5. Switch to safe personal products
      6. Live in a healthy home
      7. Clean your home safely
      8. Treat your garden with TLC, not 2,4-D
      9. Minimize your exposure to radiation
      10. Make a difference
      Five solutions for parents
      11. Create a healthy pregnancy
      12. Create a healthy home for your baby
      13. Breastfeed your baby
      14. Feed your kids organic whole foods
      15. Take action for healthy schools
      Five solutions for youth
      16. Keep your eyes wide open
      17. Don't be a sucker to big tobacco : kick butts!
      18. Be careful of everyday products
      19. Make your school healthy
      20. Become an activist
      Ten solutions for action groups
      21. Join the activists
      22. Form a local group
      23. Choose your priorities
      24. Tackle a local challenge
      25. Become a research wiz
      26. Plan a winning campaign
      27. Work for environmental justice
      28. Build coalitions
      29. Create new legislation
      30. Learn the art of advocacy
      Five solutions for health care
      31. Champion public health and environmental justice
      32. Promote healthy parenting before conception and birth
      33. Ensure a safe childhood
      34. Solutions for cancer agencies
      35. Practice health care without harm
      Ten solutions for cities
      36. Create a cancer prevention action plan
      37. Become a green community
      38. Clean the air
      39. Stop incinerating waste
      40. Grow organic food and forests
      41. Create safe, green schools
      42. Curb electromagnetic radiation
      43. Clean the water and sewage
      44. Get smart : fight poverty, stop sprawl
      45. Work with other cities
      Five solutions for labor
      46. Educate and organize
      47. Agitate and compensate
      48. Negotiate, legislate and enforce the rules
      49. Go for just transition
      50. Link up with other activists
      Fifteen solutions for business
      51. Become a green business
      52. Move to sustainability
      53. Reduce your emissions to zero
      54. Embrace green chemistry
      55. Phase out toxic chemicals in products
      56. Phase out most uses of chlorine
      57. Protect your workers
      58. Protect your neighbors
      59. Stop sabotaging the solutions
      60. Solutions for transport companies
      61. Solutions for power and mining companies
      62. Solutions for builders
      63. Solutions for farmers and the food industry
      64. Solutions for supermarkets and retailers
      65. Solutions for all businesses
      Twenty solutions for governments
      66. Build a national cancer prevention strategy
      67. Adopt the precautionary principle
      68. Expand public health care
      69. Control the chemicals
      70. Strengthen your regulatory arm
      71. Tax pollution, instead of people
      72. Reduce the toxics
      73. Let the people know
      74. Control the corporations
      75. Revive democracy
      76. Green up your government
      77. Encourage education for a sustainable world
      78. Clean up the toxic sites
      79. End the use of tobacco
      80. Promote clean production
      81. Promote organic food
      82. Clear the air : promote sustainable energy
      83. Let the waters flow clearly
      84. Stop military abuse of the environment
      85. Support the global movement
      Five solutions for developing nations
      86. Make prevention your #1 strategy
      87. Stop the tobacco industry
      88. Clean the air
      89. Support organic farming
      90. Leapfrog over the western path
      Ten global solutions
      91. Fulfill the dream of sustainable global governance
      92. Show global leadership on cancer prevention
      93. Build stronger global treaties
      94. Eliminate all hazardous chemicals by 2020
      95. Stop the global trade in hazardous wastes
      96. Ban asbestos
      97. Stop ozone depletion
      98. Ban depleted uranium
      99. solution for the world's religions
      100. Heal the earth's cancer
      One solution for all of us
      101. Don't sit this one out
      App. 1. IARC list of cancer-causing agents, mixtures and exposures.
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