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Raising Elijah : protecting our children in an age of environmental crisis /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steingraber, Sandra
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pa. : Da Capo Press, 2011.
Edition:First Da Capo Press edition.
Series:A Merloyd Lawrence book
Subjects:
Pediatric toxicology > United States.
Environmentally induced diseases in children > United States.
Environmental toxicology > United States.
Children and the environment > United States.
Climatic changes > Health aspects.
Toxicology.
Ecotoxicology.
Disorders of Environmental Origin > etiology.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Milk (and terror)
  • The nursery school playground (and well-informed futility)
  • The grocery list (and the ozone hole)
  • Pizza (and ecosystem services)
  • The kitchen floor (and national security)
  • Asthma (and intergenerational equity)
  • The big talk (and systems theory)
  • Homework (and frontiers in neurotoxicology)
  • Eggs (and sperm)
  • Bicycles on Main Street (and high-volume slickwater hydraulic fracturing).