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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-
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Other Contributors/Collections:Dauncey, Guy.
Wordsworth, Anne, 1948-
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Published/Created:Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers, ©2007.
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: QZ200 .A74 2007
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Cancer--Prevention.
Carcinogens.
Chemical carcinogenesis.
Consumer education.
Environmentally induced diseases--Prevention.
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Description:xvii, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Series:Solutions Project (Series)
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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ISBN:9780865715424
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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.