Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway
Christopher Bosso considers how organizations that once contested the Establishment have become an establishment of their own.
Christopher Bosso considers how organizations that once contested the Establishment have become an establishment of their own.
Alex Lockwood tries to measure the importance of Rachel Carson’s work in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities.
A comparative history of environmental policy development in Germany and the United States from 1880 to 1970, and the rise of civic activism to combat air pollution.
Chris Rose discusses Greenpeace UK in relation to public awareness of environmental problems.
In this essay (updated in 2019), Bron Taylor offers background about the events that gave rise to the Earth First! movement and reviews some of the watershed moments in its history, including its print publications.
Wild Earth 1, no. 3 with essays on hydro development in North America, trans-boundary ecosystem preservation, the central Appalachian wilderness, and the need for deep ecological language.
Wild Earth 2, no. 1 with essays on the ecological costs of livestock, bison hunt, trouts and their habitat, “wheeled locusts,” and off-road-vehicle trails on public lands.
In issue two of Earth First! the editors confirm their seriousness and invite readers to radicalize the conservation movement.
Howie Wolke and Dave Foreman write a memo to “the hardcore,” looking for a core group of people to run the new organization. They attach a draft platform and suggest a newsletter titled Nature More: The Newsletter of EARTH FIRST.
Issue three of Earth First! celebrates the movement’s diversity.