conservation

Ethics of Nature is an inquiry into the value of nature. Is nature’s value only instrumental value for human beings or does nature also have intrinsic value?

Earth First! 27, no. 2 features articles on nuclear resistance in Germany, Trinidad community’s fight against the Alcoa aluminum smelter, Molokai’i activists’ battle to “save the last Hawaiian island”, and the self-sustaining community Umoja Village Shantytown in Miami.

Earth First! Journal 31, no. 3 presents thoughts on jaguar recovery in the United States, ecocide and renewal in Iraq’s marshlands, South Florida forest defense work, and native land rights at Glen Cove.

Earth First! Journal 31, no. 4 features “An EF!ers Guide to Citizen Monitoring of Water Pollution Discharge Permits,” as well as essays on GPS tracking, border policy, and “Canopy Occupation Against Coal.”

Earth First! Journal 32, no. 1 features issues concerning monkeywrenching, “Colonialism, Biofuels and Land Rights in Central America,” ecological warfare, and the merging of deep green resistance and the occupy movement.

Earth First! Journal 32, no. 2 features essays on “Colonial Louisiana in the 20th Century,” digital eco-defense, greenwashing, and solidarity in a biocentric movement.

Earth First! 30, no. 2 reports on the Copenhagen climate conference in December, the endangered American grey wolf, how industrial windpower threatens Maine’s mountains, and nuclear renaissance and the necessary resistance.

The second volume of the 30th anniversary edition of Earth First! features the topics of industrial agriculture, history and resistance to MTE in Appalachia, direct action for Orangutans in Borneo, and native perspectives on ecology.