WiserEarth Area of Focus Stewards
Be a Steward, Add and Update WiserEarth Content
The 379 Areas of Focus on WiserEarth have been created to provide a comprehensive categorization or taxonomy of all the different areas of activity relating to the environmental and social justice fields. All entities entered into the WiserEarth database (organizations, groups, people, resources, solutions, events, jobs) can be tagged with multiple areas of ...learn more
GROUP DETAILS
Created: Feb 22, 2008
Updated: Oct 19, 2009
Membership: Open
Semi-Private
Resources
Results 1 to 10 of 64 resources
Updated: 6 months ago
Every day, more people are shifting towards a plant-based diet without meat, eggs, and dairy products due to concerns about their health, the environment, or animal ethics. Two of North America's f...
Areas: Animal Welfare and Rights, Malnutrition, Diet, Disease, and Education, Consumption and Green Consumers, Cancer, Health Education
Type: Book - Author: Brenda Davis, RD & Vesanto Melina, RD
Type: Book - Author: Brenda Davis, RD & Vesanto Melina, RD
Updated: 7 months ago
Trust Us We're Experts is a deeply researched look at how propagandists, spin doctors, PR flacks and lobbyists manipulate and manage public o...
Areas: Corporate Ethics, Biotechnology, Precautionary Principle, Environmental Toxicology, Cancer
Type: Book - Author: Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber
Type: Book - Author: Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber
Updated: 9 months ago
The Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) is a unique and widely used international resource of results from 6153 chronic, long-term animal cancer tests on 1485 chemicals. CPDB provides a standardiz...
Updated: 9 months ago
New Society
Publishers - leaders in sustainable publishing for over 20 years.
We are a company that
strives to “walk the talk” with a mandate that goes beyond the single bottom
line of profit a...
Updated: 9 months ago
Healing ourselves & the earth: PlanetThrive.com is a grassroots community for personal wellness with a focus on the health-environment connection. We offer a healing space for those on a person...
Updated: 9 months ago
A study of the potentially enormous and devastating health impacts of the global atmospheric changes which are under way. The author uses available knowledge to model future health impacts, inclu...
Updated: 9 months ago
The average global temperature has risen approximately 0.6oC (0.9oF) over the
past century. Global mean temperatures are projected by recent computer models to
increase by 1.8oC to as much as 7.1...
Areas: Climate Change, Environmental Health, Greenhouse Gases, Malaria, Cancer
Type: Other - Author: Michael Simpson
Type: Other - Author: Michael Simpson
Updated: 11 months ago
Today as citizens of the world, we face a daunting array of social and environmental problems ranging from health care and education to global warming and economic inequality. For each of these iss...
Updated: 12 months ago
One in three of us will be diagnosed with cancer during our life.
The disease tends to affect older people - but can strike at any time.
Excluding certain skin cancers, there were more than
270...
Updated: about 1 year ago
New Society Publishers - leaders in environmental publishing. We are a company that strives to “walk the talk” with a mandate that goes beyond the single bottom line of profit above all else. We ca...
Areas: Organic Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, Animal Welfare and Rights, Literature, Business Firm and Organization Sustainability, Responsible Business Practices, Socially Responsible Investment, Youth Education and Empowerment, Coastal and Marine Human Impacts, Leadership Training ...
Type: Website
Type: Website