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Dodging the toxic bullet how to protect yourself from everyday environmental health hazards

Summary: Boyd helps you identify and avoid a range of environmental health hazards, including mercury in fish, lethal strains of E. coli in water, carcinogens in cleaning products, lead in toys, and the ultraviolet radiation in sunshine.

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  • ISBN: 9781553656210 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 1553656210 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: electronic resource
    remote
    1 online resource (214 p.)
  • Publisher: Vancouver [B.C.] : Greystone Books, c2010

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General Note:
Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Environmental health 101 -- The outdoor air we breathe -- The indoor air we breathe -- The food we eat -- The water we drink -- The things we buy and use -- The physical hazards we face -- Advocate for a healthy environment -- Healthy planet, healthy people.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Environmental toxicology -- Popular works
Environmental health -- Popular works
Pollution -- Environmental aspects
Environmental health
Environmental health -- Popular works
Environmental toxicology -- Popular works
Natural history
Science
Medicine
Genre: Electronic books.

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David R. Boyd is a leading environmental lawyer who has provided advice to the governments of Sweden and Canada. He is a Trudeau Scholar at the University of British Columbia, where his research focuses on the right to a healthy environment. He is also an adjunct professor with Simon Fraser University's graduate Resource and Environmental Management program. Boyd is the coauthor of David Suzuki's Green Guide and the author of other influential works, including Sustainability Within a Generation: A New Vision for Canada and Unnatural Law: Rethinking Canadian Environmental Law and Policy. He lives, lightly, on Pender Island in British Columbia with Margot Venton and their daughter, Meredith.

David Suzuki is an award-winning geneticist, broadcaster, and host of CBC TV's The Nature of Things. He has authored over 40 books and is widely recognized as a world leader in sustainable ecology. Dr. Suzuki has 22 honorary doctorates from universities in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. For his support of Canada's First Nations people, Dr. Suzuki has been honoured with six names and formal adoption by two tribes.

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