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Clean water is the best way to ensure personal and environmental health | News, Sports, Jobs
To the editor: Red tide causes neurotoxic air discharges that can affect those who inhale the air near the waters. Bronchial distress is the difficulty red tide causes the airways. It is still not safe to go into the water in most of Lee County. The beaches are closed, fish kills and red tide blooms have been reported up Collier and Lee. We have a problem. Please consider continuing for an extra month not spraying lawn fertilizer. The red tide blooms are encouraged by this run off fertilizer. The Army Corp of Engineers will still dump run off on us. Our water ways are now polluted with Ian…
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‘Coalition of the willing’ to ensure healthy diets from sustainable food systems |
The Coalition of Action for Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems for all (HDSFS), brings together governments, UN agencies, civil society organizations, academic institutions, and social movements. It is one of the outcomes of the UN Food Systems Summit held in September 2021, as part of the Decade of Action for delivery on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. The Summit called for progress towards achieving the SDGs by examining how food systems are linked to global challenges such as malnutrition, climate change, and poverty. Sickness and inequality The HDSFS comes at a crucial time, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), one of its members, because “our food…
