Health
Examples of this pattern in action:
Urban Habitat Program
Urban Habitat Program of the Earth Island Institute. The Urban Habitat Program (UHP) functions as a catalyst for the environment and social justice, seeking to promote multi-cultural leadership. UHP believes that socio-economic and environmental problems are connected in their causes, effects and solutions. Poor people and people of color use fewer resources than most, yet they bear the heaviest burden of environmental degradation and pollution.
United Indian Health Village - Ecosystem and Community Restoration
The United Indian Health Village is an integrated landscape and health clinic, designed to restore native plants, wetlands, and garden food production to the landscape and to nurture the health of the region's Native American population.
Organizations whose work incorporate this pattern:
Commonweal
Headwaters Environmental Center
Ecosystem Approaches to Human Health
The Political Ecology Group
References:
Raffensperger, Carolyn and Joel Tickner. Protecting Public Health and the Environment: Implementing the Precautionary Principle. Island Press. Washington, DC. 1999.
Steingraber, Sandra. Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment. Vintage Books. New York, NY. 1998.
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