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The Founding of the Danish Environmental Movement NOAH
In 1969, the Danish environmental organization NOAH is established, following a spectacular happening at the University of Copenhagen.
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The Neste War 1970–1972: The First Victory of the Budding Finnish Environmental Movement
This article studies the “Neste war,” 1970–1972, the first major victory of the environmental movement in Finland.
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La Muxatena: A Sacred Rock Formation at the Heart of an Indigenous Social Movement for Environmental Rights
Indigenous groups in Nayarit, Mexico, reaffirmed their sacred environmental sites through social movement.
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The Community Food Movement in the United Kingdom: 1960s to Present
Since the 1960s, the community food movement in the United Kingdom has evolved from a means of survival to an alternative to industrialized agriculture.
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Visions of a Nuclear Apocalypse: Notions of Nature in the 1970s Antinuclear Movement
An enduring legacy of the antinuclear movement is its construction of a narrative connecting human survival to nature’s beneficence.
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Environmental Writing in Times of Terrorism: The Peruvian Journalist Bárbara D’Achille
In the 1980s, Bárbara d’Achille traveled through Peru as one of the country’s first environmental writers and activists.
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Warriors of the Rainbow: The Birth of an Environmental Mythology
Greenpeace pioneer Bob Hunter was heavily influenced by Native American mythology and thus created the image of Greenpeace activists as “Rainbow Warriors.”
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Only One Earth: Stockholm and the Beginning of Modern Environmental Diplomacy
The 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm marked a watershed in the evolution of humanity’s relationship with the earth and global concern about the environment. While most of the conference’s accomplishments were mainly rhetorical, its ultimate success was that environmental policy became a universal concern within international diplomacy. Sweden, as the host country, played no minor role in achieving this outcome.
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Italy’s Poison Ships: How an International Trade of Hazardous Waste Sparked a Grassroots Struggle for Environmental Justice
A reflection on the globalization of toxic waste as a global environmental justice issue, both at home and abroad.
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A Story of Two Parks: Historical Roots of Environmentalism under Authoritarian Regimes in Twenty-First Century Europe
This article analyzes the recent controversial environmental history of urban parks in Istanbul, Turkey, and Budapest, Hungary, under authoritarian regimes.