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Challenge 2.0 When Air Pollution Won’t Let Us Say “Ah”! Part Two

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In last week’s episode of Challenge 2.0, we spoke with a member of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility about the growing health impact of air pollution. This week, we hear the groups’ recommendations for change. Part two of “When Air Pollution Won’t Let Us Say “Ahh”.

Challenge 2.0 When Air Pollution Won’t Let Us Say Ahh! Part Two

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In last week’s episode of Challenge 2.0, we spoke with a member of Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility about the growing health impact of air pollution. This week, we hear the groups’ recommendations for change. Part two of “When Air Pollution Won’t Let Us Say “Ahh”. 

Challenge 2.0 When Air Pollution Won’t Let Us Say Ahh! Part One

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The World Health Organization is calling air pollution the new tobacco. It believes the health impact of air pollutants on our health is that serious and widespread. That assertion is supported by a Harvard study showing one in five deaths is caused by exposure to fossil fuel pollutants, and that people of color and lower income are affected the most. In this episode of Challenge 2.0, health professionals from Washington Physicians for Social Responsibility give their diagnosis of the problem, and their prescription for change. 

Challenge 2.0 No Country for Young Men or Women

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Shootings are now the biggest cause of death for children and teenagers...passing the longtime threat of automobile accidents. Washington is one of the few states to have taken steps to reduce that threat; the state legislature passed a series of gun responsibility laws, include an assault weapon ban. In this episode of Challenge 2.0, we examine the influence of faith leaders in leading to changes that make this a healthier and safer state to raise children. 

Challenge 2.0 American Women & Children - Endangered Species

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More American women are dying in childbirth than in any other developed nation. Infant survival here ranks 33rd out of the 36 major western countries. And the World Health Organization ranks the United States in the bottom 10 of 180 countries in terms of providing children with a healthy, sustainable future. In this episode of Challenge 2.0, we examine why the health and survival of American mothers...and their children... is at such risk...and what can be done about it. 

Challenge 2.0 Making Food Sustainable, Healthy and Affordable

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They’re called ‘Ag Gag rules’-passed by state legislators to punish people who reveal unsafe, unhealthy or unethical food production methods. Such rules are only one example of strategies to reduce or eliminate public knowledge and regulation of corporate agriculture and food production methods. But in this episode of Challenge 2.0, we meet a group seeking to counter that pressure-and increase access to food that is good, clean and fair...and affordable. 

Challenge 2.0 Rescuing Our Children from Food Deserts-The Lil’ Sprouts Approach

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Any parent knows how it can be a struggle to persuade their children to eat healthy foods. But for some parents, the struggle is simply affording healthy foods-for that matter, any food. We’ve examined the issue of food insecurity among indigenous communities, and those of color. In this edition of Challenge 2.0, we examine a program called ‘Little Sprouts’ that was founded in Denver Colorado. It’s designed to help such parents and to persuade children that eating healthy foods can be tasty and fun.

Challenge 2.0 Celebrating and Connecting How Faith Can Unite

Discussions of the faiths of Christianity, Judaism and Islam tend to focus more on conflict than connection. That’s often based more on biases than actual experience. As the major holidays  of each faith-Easter, Passover and Ramadan overlap this year, some faith leaders believe that also raises the possibility of connection together with individual celebration, and reducing costly alienation and dehumanization. That’s the focus of this edition of Challenge 2.0. 

Challenge 2.0 What we Get Wrong About God...and Why It Matters

Bring people of different faiths together, and you’re likely to hear vastly different views expressed about who or what God is or isn’t. In this episode of Challenge 2.0, we decided to do just that-to bring together faith leaders from Christianity, Judaism and Islam...to explore the question of what they believe we get wrong about God/Allah...and why it matters. 

Challenge 2.0 Loneliness: Social Solitary Confinement?

The former US Surgeon General believes our country is suffering from an epidemic of loneliness. Dr. Vivek Murthy said the evidence pointed to such an epidemic long before the isolation created by the COVID pandemic, and that such loneliness not only causes emotional problems, but also physical ones. A Brigham Young University study says the health impact of chronic loneliness is equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. In this episode of Challenge 2.0, we turn to the Interfaith Amigos for thoughts on what we can and should do for ourselves...and for each other.