Earth First! 1, no. 5
Issue five of Earth First! calls for support of the (continued) Glen Canyon Dam campaign.
Issue five of Earth First! calls for support of the (continued) Glen Canyon Dam campaign.
Issue four of Earth First! deals with some of the movement’s actions to save the environment.
Issue three of Earth First! celebrates the movement’s diversity.
In issue two of Earth First! the editors confirm their seriousness and invite readers to radicalize the conservation movement.
In this inaugural issue of its journal, the radical environmentalist group Earth First! announces its principles and platform.
In this memo to “the leading intellectual and literary lights of EARTH FIRST,” Dave Foreman drafts the principles of the new Earth First organization, along with a draft membership brochure.
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.
Melanie Arndt reflects on her experiences of growing up east of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War—specifically as a child in East Germany and later as a volunteer in Minsk, Belarus
Lajos Rácz traces his development as a climate historian back to his experience growing up in rural Hungary.
Martin V. Melosi reflects on the past and future of environmental history, noting its broad scope but also its tendencies to prioritize social history and ecological concerns over certain “top-down” topics, such as the environmental politics of specific governments.