A list of tips to help people deal with common summertime problems
including ticks and poison ivy was recently made available to the
public by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an international
nonprofit environmental organization.

In an attempt to ease the distresses that summer can bring, and send a message on their stance on climate change, The Natural Resources Defense Council put out a tip sheet that addresses eight of these concerns: heat waves, bad air alert days, insects, poison ivy, sneezing and wheezing, food-borne illness, dangerous swimming conditions, and unpleasant visits to national parks.

The tip sheet shows steps Americans can take to make life less miserable this summer. And to safeguard summers that lie ahead, the literature also underscores the need to support efforts such as the EPA's proposal to limit carbon pollution from the nation's existing power plants, which reportedly account for 40 percent of U.S. carbon pollution.

"With hotter days, we're seeing more risks to our health and happiness," said Peter Altman, director of NRDC's Climate Campaign. "We can ease these warm-day woes today, but it would be wrong to doom tomorrow's families and children to even more heat waves, code red air alerts, disease-carrying ticks, poison ivy rashes, stomach illnesses and degraded national landmarks."

The tip sheet can be found here.