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In this chapter:

 

In this chapter:

Stories

• Health promoters stop cholera

• Bhopal toxic gas disaster

• Timothy’s story

• How germs travel

• Arsenic in “safe” water

• Partnership improves the water supply

• Industry takes a community’s water

• Villagers teach development workers

• Collecting rainwater in the desert

• Women and men talk about water

• The wrong toilets?

• Urban community sanitation

• People build their own sewers

• Dry toilets help local economy

• Malaria on the Trans-Amazon Highway

• Stopping dengue by stopping mosquitoes

• Aguan River Valley watershed

• How a large dam made the Yaqui people sick

• Intertribal partnership protects the Yukon River

• The Green Belt Movement

• Protecting forests and livelihood

• Harvesting medicine from the forest

• Working to protect the Amazon rainforest

• Forestry that sustains both people and trees

• NGO workers learn about erosion from farmers

• Helping trees plant themselves

• Changes in farming

• Changing diets affect Native Americans’ health

• Junior farmer Field School for AIDS orphans

• The People’s Grocery

• Recovering lost seeds to resist drought

• Vía Campesina

• Farmers resist GE cotton

• Golden rice in Asia

• Mother seeds of resistance

• Villagers organize a seed swap

• A village struggles against pesticides

• Doctors do not always have the answers

• Farmers organize to stay independent

• Juan, Pedro, and Hurricane Mitch

• Stone walls prevent erosion and save water

• Urban farming blossoms

• Farmers market products cooperatively

• Farmer field schools

• Toxic pollution at Love Canal

• Organizing against radiation poisoning

• Improved ventilation solves many problems

• Women improve stoves for fuel and flavor

• Natural home cleaning protects health

• Teenagers improve building materials

• Building homes and community

• How Eseng gained better health and respect

• A community trades trash for cash

• Banning plastic bags

• Community composting and recycling

• Resource recovery centers

• A town struggles with solid waste and wins

• Philippines outlaws incineration

• Sangu’s story

• GroundWork’s bucket brigade

• Cleaner production in tanneries

• A taste of clean production.

• The African Stockpiles Project

• Take your toxic waste and go home

• A home run for health

• Mining sickness among the Dineh

• School and nutrition for child miners

• Treatment for miners with silicosis

• Community action saves a river

• Women miners organize a cooperative

• Asbestos miners finally win in court

• Oil communities organize a health study

• Flaring can be stopped

• Oil spill clean-up makes workers sick

• A new way to clean spilled oil?

• Women protest oil exploitation

• The case against Texaco

• Solar-powered rural clinics

• Micro hydropower unites communities

• Microcredit helps fund solar power

• Biogas powers rural life

• Maya Pedal bicycle power

• Communities resist mining

Activities

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• How diarrhea diseases spread

• Stop the spread of diarrhea

• How do toxic chemicals get into water?

• Clear water might not be clean water

• Two circles

• Detective story: Water contamination

• Removing barriers to toilets for women

• Choosing the right toilet

• Make a watershed

• Planning a community watershed project

• Sociodramas

• Consider everyone’s knowledge and needs

• 10 Seeds

• How do pesticides enter the body?

• Body mapping

• Drawing pesticide solutions

• Learning about soil

• What rain does to bare soil

• Toxic chemicals pass from animals to people

• Organize a trash walk

• Do a health care waste assessment

• Snakes and ladders game

• Do oil and water mix?

How to...

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• How to make rehydration drink

• How to make a flytrap

• How to make a tippy-tap

• How to make a cover slab for a well

• How to make a charcoal filter

• How to make a slow sand filter

• How to disinfect water with sunlight

• How to make a concrete toilet platform

• How to make a concrete ring beam

• 3 ways to build a dry toilet

• How to make seed balls

• How to plant seeds or cuttings in containers

• How to read a pesticide label

• How to make an A-frame level

• How to ready an A-frame by marking its center

• How to mark contour lines

• How to make a natural refrigerator

• How to build a fish pond

• How to double dig a garden bed

• How to examine your breasts

• How to make a bleach solution

• How to make a simple roach trap

• How to make safer cleaning products

• How to make natural earth plaster

• How to compost with earthworms

• How to make slow compost

• How to make fast compost

• How to make a safe disinfecting solution

• How to make a disinfecting bleach solution

• How to make a bleach bucket

• How to make sure items are disinfected

• How to make a sharps box

• How to wash and disinfect a syringe

• How to make a covered waste pit

• How to seal sharps containers

• How to clean up a mercury spill

• How to dispose of medicines safely

• How to make a bowl-style retort

• How to make a galvanized pipe retort

• What to put in a first aid kit.

• How to make an activated charcoal mask

This page was updated:16 Jun 2020