Ocean Book of the Month
Every month, The Ocean Project highlights a book focused on our blue planet or environmental sustainability. Books for all age groups will be covered, non-fiction and fiction, prose and poetry. If you have a suggestion, please let us know.
A Community Guide to Environmental Health
by Jeff Conant and Pam Fadem
A Community Guide to Environmental Health provides you with a primer on all aspects of creating community health: Human health, environmental justice, drinking water, watershed protection, sustainable forests, disease control, land restoration, food security, toxics removal, sustainable farming, fishing management, safe homes for children and other concerns. For some readers, the text rings true as a review of history as to how we incorporated healthy facilities and behaviors into our society. Those of us in that category can't help but feel thankful for what we have due to the actions of those who worked for our community in the past. For others it points out the need to become more active in supporting community rights for those less fortunate in faraway places who have yet to incorporate healthy practices into their community. For those of us in that category, we are empowered with useful information to make our actions more effective. In either case, A Community Guide to Environmental Health is a master checklist of issues to consider and actions to take for securing a healthy future for any community.
Community health issues are changing in relative priority levels through demonstrated successes of education to erradicate the dangers of community perils while recent failures of environmental management make others more prominent today in comparison to times past. The reader can continue to measure the magnitude of potential societal threats and yet give great respect to a community to work together to reduce the concerns through awareness and cooperation. We can live vicariously through the actions of those who spend their time building community health for indigenous groups or helping indigenous groups protect their way of life from invading unhealthy threats.
Whether you read the whole book to consider the extent of a healthy community, or scan an occasional chapter to consider a specific aspect of community healthy, A Community Guide will not disappoint for any purpose — including providing educational curricula. Stay tuned, as the the Ocean Project will likely weave words from the text into the Seas The Day monthly themes. The book covers much that is relevant to ocean conservation as well.
Reconnect yourself with all the information you need to be a better participant in your community's health.
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Check out the on-line version of the book.
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If you are interested in reading this book but also want to be a conscious consumer, please visit your local library and check it out.
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If you have any suggestions for a future "Ocean Book of the Month", please let us know. Send us your favorite recent or not-so-recent read so we can share it with all!
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