Multimedia | book profile
Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway
Christopher Bosso considers how organizations that once contested the Establishment have become an establishment of their own.
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Multimedia | journal article
"The Affective Legacy of Silent Spring"
Alex Lockwood tries to measure the importance of Rachel Carson’s work in its affective influence on contemporary environmental writing across the humanities.
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The Age of Smoke: Environmental Policy in Germany and the United States, 1880–1970
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.
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"Beyond The Struggle For Proof: Factors Changing The Environmental Movement"
Chris Rose discusses Greenpeace UK in relation to public awareness of environmental problems.
Perspectives
Consigning Environmentalism to History? Remarks on the Place of the Environmental Movement in Modern History
A narrative of natural progression for environmentalism, from modest beginnings to a global force with the promise of a more sustainable future, is unconvincing in the early twenty-first century. In this issue of RCC Perspectives, Frank Uekoetter discusses the position of the environmental movement in society.
Perspectives
Das neue Rachel Carson Center in München, oder: was heißt und zu welchem Ende betreibt man Weltumweltgeschichte?
This essay is adapted from a lecture given by Rachel Carson Center director Christof Mauch at the Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) of LMU Munich, as a prelude to a series of public lectures and colloquia held by the Carson Center.
Arcadia
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.”
Multimedia | interviews and talks
Nadkarni, Nalini, "Conserving the Canopy"
Nalini Nadkarni explores the rich, vital world found in the tops of trees and communicates what she finds to non-scientists.
Arcadia
Removing the People: The Creation of Canada’s Kouchibouguac National Park
The creation of Kouchibouguac National Park along Canada’s Atlantic coast in the province of New Brunswick came at the cost of removing 1,200 residents from their lands.
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“Radical Environmentalism’s Print History: From Earth First! to Wild Earth.”
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.