and a host of other preparations needed for families to stay healthy and safe during a serious influenza pandemic.
Reviews
“The book is crammed with lots of very valuable information on preparing for this emergency with the focus on the needs of the family. I found it very informative and helpful for making and improving the quality of my family’s plan. This is a unique and very timely contribution to the preparedness literature that is long overdue. It is a must read and reference text for anyone who is serious about preparing their home and family for the possibility of a severe influenza pandemic.”
-- Dr. Grattan Woodson, MD, author The Bird Flu Preparedness Planner, The Bird Flu Manual
“An intensively researched, user-friendly, and imminently practical crash course in surviving on limited resources. Whether coming as a pandemic, hurricane, or ice storm, disaster-induced disruption of societal support systems is increasingly inevitable, and this guide is a must-have to help you and your loved ones plan to survive.”
-- Thomas Honey, owner of Honey Electric Solar Inc.
“William Stewart’s How to Prepare for a Pandemic covers the breadth of disaster planning and is an important, comprehensive contribution to the literature of pandemic preparation.”
-- Melanie Mattson, risk communicator, publisher The Flu Wiki
Customer Reviews:
Essential Reading.......2006-12-02
Year after year, we Americans face numerous threats that could adversely impact our lifestyles. These threats include natural, medical, and man-made disasters--any one of which could bring about immediate and long-lasting hardships to our friends and families. In anticipation that each of us will eventually face some sort of disaster, William Stewart has written a common-sense guide to help us survive as comfortably as possible for as long as necessary. His approach is quite thorough and detailed, yet it is very easy to follow. Item by item, he addresses how we can prepare to cope with disruptions of food, water, energy, safety, medical services, and transportation. Each subject discussion is broad enough to encompass most domestic situations, yet each one is also filled with direct and practical advice that you can use right away. Since disasters are always looming on the horizon, this book should be considered essential reading for everyone.
A Practical Guide to Home Preparedness.......2006-10-05
Will Stewart's book on family preparedness is unusual because it is written to help families survive both the short as well as the long emergency. This reference text focuses on practical solutions to providing water, food, energy, and heat when our usual sources of these essentials have become unreliable or unavailable. Will's straightforward approach to the issues makes this book a valuable addition to the library of anyone concerned with basic survival in the urban or rural setting during the short or long emergency.
Grattan Woodson, MD, FACP
Author of the Bird Flu Manual
How to Prepare for a Pandemic; and Other Extended Disasters.......2006-07-21
This book serves as an excellent guide for the person who knows he/she needs to make decisions and purchases to ensure a measure of safety and comfort during a pandemic or other disaster, but is unsure where to begin. Many helpful references and resource details are provided to assist in planning and in-depth research. Highly recommended.
Book Description
Sustainable Living for Your Home, Neighborhood and Community is about your home-inside and outside-and how you can use less energy, spend less money, and enjoy it more. It's filled with specific energy-saving and money-saving ideas that are either free or very low-cost. They'll help you and, without any additional effort, also help your environment. It's about your neighborhood. You'll learn how you and your neighbors can benefit from working and sharing together. And it's about your community. You'll learn how all of its neighborhoods and residents can benefit from cooperative effort. Sustainable Living isn't about buying greener things; it's about buying fewer things. It's about spending less money, and getting more out of life. And helping the planet at the same time. Most of all, Sustainable Living is a guide to saving money, improving your life, and giving you the tools you need to deal with an everchanging future.
Customer Reviews:
Covers Basics and provides the links you need.......2007-08-13
I bought this with Mike's other book Peak Oil Prep and both books cover a lot of the same ideas and links because the response to peak oil is of course to have a sustainable community and environment. While you may not need both books, either one will help you prepare for peak oil and help make your community sustainable.
Average customer rating:
- Better urban planning for better walking
- Excellent Book on Walkable Communities
- A comprehensive and utterly persuasive argument in favor of creating safe, health inducing, walkways
- A Ha! THAT'S Why I Don't Walk More
- Personal health in a social framework
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Walk for Your Life! Restoring Neighborhood Walkways to Enhance Community Life, Improve Street Safety and Reduce Obesity
Marie Demers
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With obesity at an all-time high, America's sidewalks vanishing from our suburbs, pedestrians and bicyclists at risk along many thoroughfares, and a looming fuel crisis on the horizon, we need to reevaluate personal and societal walking values. This thought-provoking book calls for the restoration of a walkable environment as a starting point for addressing these pressing issues.
Customer Reviews:
Better urban planning for better walking.......2006-04-13
Street and subways in urban areas are increasingly inhospitable to walkers even as health publications advocate more walking for health: that's why the message in WALK FOR YOUR LIFE: RESTORING NEIGHBORHOOD WALKWAYS TO ENHANCE COMMUNITY LIFE, IMPROVE STREET SAFETY AND REDUCE OBESITY is so essential. Author Marie Demers, Ph.D. has been a health researcher for the past twenty-five years: her background of psychology, biology and anthropology lend to a survey of urban environments and what creates and encourages a 'walkable' environment to bring back both health and community sense. An excellent call for better urban planning reinforcing the health benefits of walking.
Excellent Book on Walkable Communities.......2006-04-09
My wife picked up this book for me, since she knew I am interested in walkable communities, and it didn't disappoint.
It is filled with the history of communities, and takes a page from Kunstler's earlier works regarding suburbia and sprawl. I liked the ties that she made between our increasingly sedentary lifestyles and obesity, illness, and childhood disease. Ms. Demers discusses our dependence on cars, the hostile environment design to limit walking to desitinations. She finishes the book with some suggested solutions, for individuals, communities, and the design of future neighborhoods. Some of the information in the book I have gathered from other sources, but it is a good overall reference for walkable communities, and increasing the amount of walking that you do in your daily life. I especially liked some of the "side" stories that she had in there. For example, how advances in packaging and decreased food preparation and clean-up has made our lives easier, but has led to more time on the couch and less time that would have been spent standing to prepare a meal and then clean it up after. (That's why that fat-free cake didn't lead to my weight loss...heh heh)
It comes with a 4/5 star recommendation from me. I would have given the 5th star if there was more information on how to go about affecting change in your community (petitions, attending town meetings, etc.) Pick it up from Amazonm for a good quick informative read.
A comprehensive and utterly persuasive argument in favor of creating safe, health inducing, walkways .......2006-04-03
In Walk For Your Life!: Restoring Neighborhood Walkways To Enhance Community Life, Improve Street Safety And Reduce Obesity, author Marie Demers draws upon her more than twenty-five years experience as a health researcher, an epidemiology, as well as her background in psychology, biology, and anthropology, and worldwide travels to create a comprehensive and utterly persuasive argument in favor of creating safe, health inducing, walkways in urban and suburban locales so that men and women of all ages and health conditions can obtain the undeniably benefits of regular exercise through the simple means of walking. Indeed, Demers lays out a clear and convincing case for the restoration of a "walkable" environment that would have the additional social benefits of enhancing community life while addressing the current obesity epidemic. Walk For Your Life! is "must" reading for anyone seeking to establish the opportunity for more mobile, healthy inducing, pleasurable opportunities and conditions in their community allowing them to walk their way into a better physical, mental, and emotional condition.
A Ha! THAT'S Why I Don't Walk More.......2006-02-09
This is one of those elephants in the living room sorts of book. I liked reading it because it articulated many of my own frustrations about my neighborhood and my ability to be outside. "Is there a simpler or more natural activity than walking? Then, how could such a healthy human activity become so dangerous and unwelcome in just a few decades?" In Walk for your Life! these questions are asked and answered. How DID we suburbanites get to accepting, to not even thinking about the disappearance of walking as a daily occurrence, a no big deal sort of activity? I'm a baby boomer. I remember walking to school, staying out playing until dark. In my case, I now live in a neighborhood where our family has always commented on how completely convenient our home is to everything. And it is. We live on a lake, our home is very attractive. It's also within walking distance to the local convenience store, a little further a complete supermarket, the sports club, the post office and Fed Ex, seven or eight restaurants, bookstore, and every sort of retail store. And, when I first moved here, I actually did try to walk to these places. But, sporadic sidewalks give way to narrowed or non-existent shoulders on the roads where I had to wait until the cars let up and then sprint across those areas. Not to mention, I felt conspicuous as I walked along. Not another soul in sight the entire walk, other than in passing cars. I remember thinking that if I ever tried this again, I needed to be dressed as a jogger. What I had been trying to do was walk as a means of transportation, not for exercise or as a special leisure activity. I didn't realize that until I read this book. A ha! I saw a really big elephant and it's shaped like a SUV! So, our home IS convenient, as long as we use our car. Walk for your Life! points out what is wrong with this picture, and offers ways to bring back all kinds of walking into our lives.
The book made me think about my own life as a walker and also about the big picture -- road and town planning and zoning, about watching life on TV rather than being outside in it with my neighbors, about reduced health and being fat for not moving around more. It's not only worth reading, it's also well written and very readable. It's also got a great list of resources - organizations that promote walking, other books, websites.
Personal health in a social framework.......2006-01-22
Walk For Your Life is an articulate perspective on why the art of walking is on the decline in our computerized, automated and industrialized world. With obesity at an all-time high, especially among children and teens, and obesity- and sedentary lifestyle-related diseases precipitously on the rise, this is an important and timely new book!
Epidemiologist and walking enthusiast, Dr. Marie Demers, explains how our attitudes toward walking are a sociological phenomenon and not just an idiosyncratic personal response to environmental factors. We drive cars to the supermarket or the mall because our communities have been designed around the automobile rather than the on the human scale of the older walkable neighborhoods and communities.
This book offers encouragement to individuals to walk more regularly and purposefully. It offers advise to community planners, zoning boards and educators on how to create and/or maintain the "walkability" and pedestrian safety of our communities. And it offers a vision for a healthier, friendlier and more active society where walking is enjoyed by all as a essential part of everyday life.
I heartily recommend Walk For Your Life! to everyone who wants
to be healthier and who wants to live in a healthier, safer and friendlier community.
Book Description
Based on the proven technology of Multisystemic Therapy (MST), this unique book provides an exemplary approach to empowering communities to reduce youth violence and substance abuse and promote school success. Effective strategies for working with at-risk youth are embedded in a comprehensive framework that enlists the talents and resources of clinicians, human service professionals, neighborhood residents, community organizations, and outside stakeholders. Using an extended case example to illustrate all aspects of implementing MST on a neighborhood-wide scale, the volume covers empirical and clinical foundations, program planning, and strategies for building collaboration with key community players. The result is a hopeful and practical blueprint for making a neighborhood safer and healthier for all residents and creating new opportunities for young people and their families.
Customer Reviews:
It just makes sense.......2005-08-16
The MST neighborhood partnership book will make everyone who reads it wonder why more programs aren't designed with the practical and common-sense approach it outlines. Each chapter captures one aspect of the neighborhood approach, starting with the various challenges, a how-to section, a case example, and key points to remember. It is a great book and does justice to the tremendous work that Dr. Swenson did (as well as everyone in the Union Heights neighborhood).
Books:
- The Healthy Heart Walking CD: Walking Workouts For A Lifetime Of Fitness
- The Long Goodbye
- The Mother of All Pregnancy Books: The Ultimate Guide to Conception, Birth, and Everything In Between (U.S. Edition)
- The Open Mind: Exploring the 6 Patterns of Intelligence
- The Prayer of Jabez: Breaking Through to the Blessed Life
- The Preemie Parents' Companion: The Essential Guide to Caring for Your Premature Baby in the Hospital, at Home, and Through the First Years
- The Problem of Pain
- The Suicidal Mind
- The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids: How to Understand, Live With, and Stick Up for Your Gifted Child
- The Tao of Nutrition
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