Raising Elijah
Subtitle: protecting our children in an age of environmental crisis
By: Sandra Steingraber.
Edition: 1st Da Capo Press ed.
Series: A Merloyd Lawrence book
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780738213996
Subjects: Children and the environment; Health and hygiene; Climatic changes; Diseases; Climate change; Environmentally induced diseases in children; Health aspects; Toxicology; Pediatric toxicology; Children; Environmental toxicology
Description: Explores the social, political, and ecological forces behind key things and moments in every kid's childhood, arguing that parents should consider environmental issues an integral part of family life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-290) and index.
Table of contents: title: Milk (and terror); title: The nursery school playground (and well-informed futility); title: The grocery list (and the ozone hole); title: Pizza (and ecosystem services); title: The kitchen floor (and national security); title: Asthma (and intergenerational equity); title: The big talk (and systems theory); title: Homework (and frontiers in neurotoxicology); title: Eggs (and sperm); title: Bicycles on Main Street (and high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing).