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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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Forests Archive
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A portrait of home
Posted on September 17, 2011 | No CommentsYann Arthus-Bertrand has made documenting the grandeur and beauty of Earth his life’s work. Born in 1946, the French photographer, film maker, environmentalist and UNEP Goodwill Ambassador started photographing wildlife...
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Campaigning for cork
Posted on August 7, 2011 | 1 CommentCork has been the main material of wine stoppers since 1700. But in recent years, plastic stoppers and screw caps have gained a stake in the global market. TUNZA looked into the issues...
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7 forest wonders: 1 Silk worms
Posted on September 4, 2011 | No CommentsIt all began, Confucius tells us, when a Chinese empress accidentally dropped a silkworm moth cocoon into her cup of tea in 2640 BC and discovered that a fine fibre... -
7 forest wonders: 3 White willow
Posted on September 8, 2011 | No CommentsIt’s probably the best known pharmaceutical in the world – and it’s certainly one of the most useful. Aspirin comes from the bark of the deciduous white willow tree (Salix... -
7 forest wonders: 4 Bird’s nests
Posted on September 10, 2011 | No CommentsIt takes 45 days for southeast Asian swiftlets (Collocalia spp.) to build their nests, using their own saliva, on the walls of tropical forest caves, but they can be consumed... -
7 forest wonders: 5 Bamboo
Posted on September 12, 2011 | No CommentsYou wouldn’t think it, but it’s a kind of grass. Bamboo is also one of the most rapidly growing plants on the planet, with some species growing an extraordinary 1.2... -
7 forest wonders: 6 Frankincense
Posted on September 14, 2011 | No CommentsThe wise men seem to have lived up to their name, for frankincense – one of the three gifts they brought to the infant Jesus, along with gold and myrrh... -
7 forest wonders: 7 Sugar maple
Posted on September 16, 2011 | 1 CommentYes, it’s delicious… but maple syrup is also more nutritious than other refined sugars, containing manganese, riboflavin, magnesium, potassium, calcium and zinc. Long before the arrival of European settlers, indigenous... -
What makes a forest a forest?
Posted on August 31, 2011 | No CommentsVirtually all Europe’s forests are actively managed, with a high proportion certified for sustainable timber production. © Scevenels/UNEP The vast boreal forests of the northern hemisphere have relative -
What makes a forest a forest?
Posted on August 28, 2011 | No CommentsWe all know forests are hugely important places. But why exactly should we care about them? And what, in fact, are they? Oddly, the second question is rather harder to...
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