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Healthy People, Healthy Planet: Connections between our health and the environment.
A FREE SIX-SESSION READING & DISCUSSION SERIES
Wednesdays April 4-May 9, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Register with and borrow a book from the library.
PURPOSE: To explore the connection between human health and the environment. To examine the roots of Western medicine and how it has evolved in an industrial society. To learn about the places where our personal health intersects with the environment — our food, our living spaces, our communities and ultimately, our planet. To identify actions that promote good health and in turn promote a healthier environment.
SESSION THEMES:
- Redefining Health; explores how we define health and how that understanding informs our individual and collective well-being.
- Eating Well; How did we arrive at this point where food, which sustains us, has often become something to fear and worry about?
- Cleaning House; uncovers dangers of household toxins and empowers participants to minimize exposure to health risks.
- Building Healthy Communities; examine how issues of proximity to major roads and industry, urban and suburban sprawl, and access to amenities and green space impact our overall well-being.
- Curing Consumption; while it is easy to see the connection between health and what we eat, drink and breathe, making connections between the products we buy and our health can require some additional effort.
- Healthy Planet -Healthy People; consider health within the context of Earth’s dynamic and life-sustaining ecosystems.
More information can be found at www.catamountearthinstitute.org
