Bron Taylor is professor of religion and environmental ethics at the University of Florida, where in 2002 he was recruited to develop a graduate program in Religion and Nature, and was appointed as the Samuel S. Hill Ethics Professor. His research focuses on the affective and spiritual dimensions, and political impacts, of grassroots environmental movements around the world, as well as upon the complex relationships between human beings, their religions, and the environments they inhabit.

In this exhibition, American scholar and conservationist Bron Taylor outlines the history of Earth First!, the best known of the so-called “radical environmental” groups.

Bron Taylor compiles a selected bibliography on literature connected to the history of radical environmental movements in the United States.

Bron Taylor discusses the publication of the journal Earth First! under Dave Foreman’s direction, and the controversies surrounding the movement in its first decade, from 1980 to 1990.

Bron Taylor chronicles the trajectories and shift in attitudes in the American radical environmentalist movement in the 21st century.

Bron Taylor discusses books, authors, and other streams of American counterculture which had significant impacts on radical environmentalism and the founding of the Earth First! movement.

Bron Taylor introduces Earth First!, the best known of the so-called “radical environmental” groups, founded in 1980 in the southwestern United States.

Bron Taylor provides insight into the Earth First! movement, through the second decade of publication of its journal (1990 to 2000), as well as offshoot publications such as Live Wild or Die!, ALARM, and Wild Earth.