political ecology

This issue of Earth First! focuses on Dave Foreman’s well-discussed article also entitled “Earth First!,” previously published in the American political magazine The Progressive in October 1981.

In this issue of Earth First! Benjamin Read interviews one of the United States’ most admired conservationists, Mardy Murie.

In issue 2 of the second volume of Earth First! the editors discuss EF!’s core issues, contributions, and accomplishments within the environmental grassroots movement in the US.

The Little Desert dispute of 1968 was a watershed in Australian environmental politics, marking the beginning of a new consciousness of nature.

In Prosperity without Growth, Tim Jackson—a sustainability adviser to the UK government—makes a compelling case against continued economic growth in developed nations.

Small Is Beautiful was first published in 1973 and still offers a crucial message for the modern world struggling to balance economic growth with the human costs of globalization.

This exhibition will visualize the history, present, and (scientifically based) future of the Anthropocene as well as the deep interventions of humans into the geo- and biosphere over the last two centuries.

State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World examines the policy changes needed to combat climate change and explores the economic benefits that could flow from the transition.

In State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures, sixty renowned researchers and practitioners describe how we can harness the world’s leading institutions—education, the media, business, governments, traditions, and social movements—to reorient cultures toward sustainability.

Ecological Sites of Memory is a RCC project that seeks to look into the historical memories that resonate in our environmental thinking.