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Earth First! 1, no. 4
Issue four of Earth First! deals with some of the movement’s actions to save the environment.
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Earth First! 1, no. 3
Issue three of Earth First! celebrates the movement’s diversity.
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Earth First! 1, no. 2
In issue two of Earth First! the editors confirm their seriousness and invite readers to radicalize the conservation movement.
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Earth First 1, no. 1
In this inaugural issue of its journal, the radical environmentalist group Earth First! announces its principles and platform.
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“Earth First Statement of Principles and Membership Brochure” (memo)
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.
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Memo to "The Hardcore" re: Nature More: The Newsletter of EARTH FIRST
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.
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Making Tracks: Human and Environmental Histories
Perhaps it is a feature of environmental history in particular that our origins and our past stories shape our interests and our fields of enquiry in myriad ways. Many of the “tracks” in this volume are not well-trodden, and they lead us through a landscape that is mutable and as yet uncharted.
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Fighting the Deadly Fog
Amy M. Hay examines the history of Agent Orange and its environmental and human consequences—a story that represented a transnational history.
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The Magic of Environmental History and Hopes for the Future
Christof Mauch highlights that environmental history provides a distinctive perspective by treating nature as an active agent and by bridging boundaries of time, space, and discipline.
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Offering Solutions
Zelko expresses skepticism about the transformative potential of environmental history, arguing that it is often more useful to historians than to addressing global crises.