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50 Simple Steps to Save the Earth from Global Warming
A new book by The Green Patriot Working Group, Introduction by David Steinman
This approachable book of 50 practical steps is a positive and uplifting guide to protecting our planet from global warming. Each step offers simple ways you can help in the fight and feel good about being part of the solution to the current environmental crisis. Some examples:
- Buy Green Energy
- Take an Eco-Vacation
- Check Your Tire Pressure
- Compost Your Food Waste
- Recycle Your Shoes
- Use Petrochemical-Free Cosmetics
- Buy Locally Grown Foods
- Wear Organic Clothing
Green this!
Greening your cleaning
Deirdre Imus
Imus shows how easy it is to make “living green” your way of life
“Most of us feel helpless when confronted with the terrifying realities of how our environment impacts our own and our families’ health. “I’m here to tell you that we can take action to improve this situation, and it’s much easier than you might think. As consumers, we have the power to control the level of toxins that enter our homes. With a little knowledge, we can give our families a much healthier life.”
www.dienviro.com
Living Downstream
An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
By Sandra Steingraber, PhD
Sandra Steingraber, biologist, poet, and survivor of cancer in her twenties, brings all three perspectives to bear on the most important health and human rights issue of our time: the growing body of evidence linking cancer to environmental contamination. Her scrupulously researched scientific analysis ranges from the alarming worldwide patterns of cancer incidence to the sabotage wrought by cancer-promoting substances on the intricate workings of human cells. In a gripping personal narrative, she travels from hospital waiting rooms to hazardous waste sites and from farmhouse kitchens to incinerator hearings, bringing to life stories of communities in her hometown and around the country as they confront decades of industrial and agricultural recklessness.
www.steingraber.com/
The Blue Death
Disease, Disaster and the Water We Drink
By Dr. Robert Morris
"With the keen eyes of a scientist and the sensibilities of a seasoned writer, Dr. Robert Morris chronicles the fascinating and at times frightening story of our drinking water. His gripping narrative vividly recounts the epidemics that have shaken cities and nations, the scientists who reached into the invisible and emerged with controversial truths that would save millions of lives, and the economic and political forces that opposed these researchers in a ferocious war of ideas.”
www.TheBlueDeath.com
The Secret History of the War on Cancer
By Devra Davis, PhD, MPH
Author of the National Book Award Finalist When Smoke Ran Like Water
www.basicbooks.com, For media inquiries related to the book, please contact: tim.brazier@perseusbooks.com
The war on cancer was at first run by leaders of industries that made cancer-causing products, and sometimes also profited from drugs and technologies for finding and treating the disease. Filled with compelling personalities, and never-before-revealed information, The Secret History of the War on Cancer shows how we began fighting the wrong war, with the wrong weapons, against the wrong enemies—a legacy that persists to this day.
www.devradavis.com
This Moment on Earth
Today’s New Environmentalists and their Vision for the Future
By John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry
This optimistic book highlights more than a dozen grassroots environmental activists and describes how the search for solutions to our pressing environmental problems is uniting people world-wide. In this passionate and personal book, John Kerry and Teresa Heinz Kerry shine the light on an inspiring cross-section of these new environmental pioneers and offer a guide on how you, too, can get involved to protect the world. “Environmentalism isn’t dead,” they write. “It’s just being reborn — the very idea of what it means to be an ‘environmentalist’ is being revolutionized. People from all walks of life, without concern for party or ideological lines, are coming together in unprecedented numbers across the globe.”
www.womenshealthandenvironment.org
