Toban Black

[In this post I am following up the previous one, which also was about health and mobility issues]

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A patch that was made by Rachel, a local artist

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A Streetfilms video -
“Stop the pollution, pick a solution” (from July)

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“No Impact Man” makes some points that should be more obvious -

“If you walk instead of drive, you use more calories.

Walking and cycling is healthier for people than driving. Walking and cycling is also healthier for the planet than driving. Use cars less and you get to reduce global warming and be less fat. What an amazingly wonderful synergy.”

(Obviously he is referring to the Earth’s biosphere when he uses the word “planet.” The thing is, that “planet” language implies that people don’t live in the biosphere — which just isn’t the case.)

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A sign that I used to display on my bike during critical mass rallies

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A recent Lancet study presented much the same message about personal health, and climate issues.

In September, a separate American report promoted walking and bicycling as means of reducing childhood obesity.
(The report recommends constructive changes in and through governments. I haven’t read the report’s take on any of those issues, but I will say that its recommendations seem to focus too narrowly on governments. At best, governments only are part of broader constructive changes. Officials can’t accomplish much on their own — in part, because most of the officials out there are worsening the various problems around us.)

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An American Heart Association press release -
“Traffic exposure may have a triggering effect on heart attack” (in March)

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Here are some more posts about health issues -
http://tobanblack.net/blog/?tag=health