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Healthy people in a healthy environment
Good health and well-being require a clean and harmonious environment where physical, psycho - logical, social and aesthetic factors are all given their due importance. These factors are affected by actions and choices which can secure considerable health benefits. The environment is thus not only important for its own sake, but as a resource for better living conditions and well-being.- What we’ve agreed: the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Millennium Development Goals
- Green savings
- What young people want
- Water – the key to life
- The air we breathe
- Safer, quieter towns and cities of the future – reclaiming the streets
- Active, healthy lifestyles
- Making energy sustainable
- On the safe side
- Listen to our voices – the Bandung Declaration
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TUNZA International Youth Conference, February 2013
The future we want ‘We, the UNEP Tunza Youth Advisory Council together with participants of the UNEP Tunza International Youth Conference … present this statement, on behalf of young people...
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Bottled water: Cheers!
In places and times when clean drinking water was a scarce commodity, people came up with ways of making drinks safer, from boiling water and making coffee, tea and herbal... -
Bottled water: Slowing down
According to recent data, the increase in the US bottled water market is expected to be smaller this decade. On university campuses across the continent, student movements are encouraging administrations... -
Bottled water: The environmental consequences
There’s no question that the growing demand for bottled water – currently about 114 billion cubic metres per year – is an environmental issue. Withdrawal of mineral or spring water... -
Bottled water: Who drinks bottled water?
In some p laces, bottled water really is the safe option, particularly in the developing world. But bottled water is mostly consumed in industrialized countries where it is least needed.... -
Bottled water
Today, according to the United Nations, almost 90 per cent of all people have access to clean drinking water. This is, however, a fairly recent phenomenon, even in the developed... -
Managing human waste: Natural fertilizers
For millennia, people around the world have used human excreta on fields as fertilizer, making good use of the energy and nutrients it contains, such as nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus.... -
Managing human waste: Japanese enterprise
The Japanese are highly imaginative when it comes to finding good uses for human waste. Brick house The Fujimi Tile Company of Nagoya, Japan, has invented a process for manufacturing... -
Managing human waste: Using the natural world
Compost toilets use no water, instead dehydrating waste using sawdust, ash, grass, straw or peat. Organisms such as worms and aerobic bacteria break waste down into liquid and solid organic...
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