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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
Have your say!
Health and the Environment Archive
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A model for life
Posted on June 3, 2011 | No Comments‘The environment has always been my passion. Mother Earth is our fundamental life-support system, and by becoming aware and responsible now, we can help preserve the planet.’ You’d know Gisele...
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Here are just a few of Gisele’s eco-tips
Posted on June 4, 2011 | No CommentsReduce your computer’s emissions: Reduce CO2 emissions by setting your PC to sleep when idle, letting the system hibernate until you come back. Water tank health: Keep your water tank... -
Kew
Posted on June 6, 2011 | No CommentsNoah’s green ark Nothing could survive without plants. They are the foundation for most of Earth’s ecosystems, help regulate the climate, and provide building materials, medicines, fuel, clean water and... -
The water challenge 1
Posted on May 27, 2011 | No CommentsMore than 1.5 billion people live in countries suffering from water scarcity, which is when supplies drop below an average of 2,750 litres per person per day. This hampers food... -
The water challenge 2
Posted on May 30, 2011 | No CommentsIon towers A company in Abu Dhabi is attempting rainmaking using arrays of 10-metre towers that emit ions – negatively charged particles – which attach to cloud condensation nuclei, particles... -
The water challenge 3
Posted on June 1, 2011 | No CommentsDry rice Farmers around the world are beginning to adopt rice production methods that require less water than the traditional paddy field. Seedlings are planted very young and the ground... -
From despair to hope
Posted on May 25, 2011 | No CommentsBy Linh Do, Tunza Youth Advisory Council member for Asia and the Pacific. I attended the last two big United Nations Climate Change Conferences – in Copenhagen and Cancun -
Creating a movement
Posted on May 23, 2011 | 1 CommentRenzo Guinto, medical student, environmental advocate and Bayer Young Environmental Envoy 2007, thinks the global health and environmental movements should join forces, and explains how young doctors from around the... -
Health and climate change 1
Posted on May 11, 2011 | No Comments‘Climate change will steal your future. Shrink your carbon footprint: improve your health!’ That’s the World Health Organization’s message to the world’s youth. Everybody will be affected by climate change.... -
Health and climate change 2
Posted on May 13, 2011 | No CommentsFood, water and sanitation: In 1995 the number of people suffering chronic hunger and malnutrition – mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia – reached its lowest point of 800...
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