environmentalism

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• SOURCE: L.A. Progressive
  3/19/2023
  

  On Marx, The Critique of Capitalism, and our Environmental Crisis

  by Walter G. Moss

  From E.F. Schumacher to Bernie Sanders, there is much to learn from left-wing critics of the environmental destructiveness of capitalism; the critiques are also important for how the follow and depart from the ideas of Marx. 

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• SOURCE: Washingtonian
  6/2/2022
  

  Is a Rachel Carson Museum on the Way?

  While Rachel Carson's suburban Washington home is a national landmark, there is as yet no place for the public to engage with her life and work. 

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• 8/29/2021
  

  Climate, Peace, and Health Require International Solidarity. Is it Possible to Build It?

  by Lawrence Wittner

  "Although there are no guarantees that social movements and enhanced global governance will transform our divided, problem-ridden world, they should provide us with at least a measure of hope that, someday, human solidarity will prevail."

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/12/2021
  

  Don’t Cancel John Muir (But Don't Excuse Him Either)

  Reckoning with John Muir's legacy of racial prejudice isn't just about imposing moral purity, it's about rethinking the conservation movement to include the broad coalition of humanity needed to protect natural resources. 

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• SOURCE: Sierra
  3/2/2021
  

  John Muir in Native America

  by Rebecca Solnit

  John Muir's conservationist vision erased the historical and ongoing presence of indigenous people on the land. Can the environmental movement and the national parks change direction? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/14/2021
  

  James Ridgeway, Hard-Hitting Investigative Journalist, Dies at 84

  The journalist James Ridgeway exposed malfeasance by corporate polluters and politicians, but dedicated his greatest energy to his last crusade, to end the practice of solitary confinement in prisons. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/22/2020
  

  Liberal, Progressive — And Racist? The Sierra Club Faces Its White-Supremacist History

  The Sierra Club isn’t the only organization that is shaking its foundations. Leaders of predominantly white, liberal and progressive groups throughout the field of conservation say they are taking a hard look within their organizations and don’t like what they see.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/22/2020
  

  Earth Day 1970 Was More than a Protest. It Built a Movement.

  by Adam Rome

  How can environmentalists create space for people on the sidelines to ask what a changing climate means for their hopes and dreams? And how can they encourage everyone on the field to do more?

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• 4/21/2020
  

  After 50 years of Earth Day, Will we Have 100?

  by Kimberlee Hurley

  This fiftieth celebration of Earth Day should serve as a celebration of the work that has been done. However, it should also serve as a wake-up call for the work that still needs to be done.

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• 7/15/18
  

  India’s Cities Have an Ecological Crisis.  A Historian Knows How They Got There.

  by Harini Nagendra

  It was during the colonial and post-colonial period when the people of India’s relationship with nature changed (for the worse).

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• 7/22/18
  

  New Zealand Is Giving Environmentalists a Reason to Be Hopeful

  by Catherine Knight

  The country’s politics are changing as voters on both the left and the right acknowledge the need for an independent Climate Commission, which would make recommendations on carbon reduction targets.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Californian
  4-22-18
  

  Berkeley’s Carolyn Merchant explains what ecofeminism is

  Merchant, along with various other female academics, is responsible for integrating two concepts — environmentalism and feminism — into a study known as ecofeminism.

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• 8-27-17
  

  We’ve Come to Think of the Anthropocene as Bad

  by Jan Kunnas

  But we can make a good Anthropocene as well.

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• SOURCE: WaPo
  7-30-17
  

  At EPA museum, history might be in for a change

  Different administrations tell very different stories about the past and the present.

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• 9-20-15
  

  What Environmentalists (and the Rest of Us) Can Learn from the Middle Ages About the Importance of Forests

  by Albrecht Classen

  The deep concern of modern scientists with the loss of forests is paralleled in medieval literary texts where the forest is identified as a central staging ground with enormous transformative powers.

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• SOURCE: EdgeEffects
  7-7-15
  

  Historian Brian Allen Drake says Barry Goldwater, whatever his other policies, was an enthusiastic environmentalist

  by Brian Hamilton

  In an interview he notes that Goldwater even supported the establishment of the EPA. 

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• SOURCE: The Scotsman
  9-22-13
  

  Scot who saved American buffalo subject of film

  He is little known in his home country, but the Scot credited with saving America’s buffalo from being hunted to extinction is now the subject of an award-winning film.

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• Environmentalism

  Download this backgrounder as a Word documentWorth ReadingFrank Uekoetter: Global Warming – It's 1970 All Over AgainBrian Hamilton: Making “Environmentalism” Relevant for Everyone Nancy Unger: Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let's Not Roll Back Environmental Protections Background

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• Environmentalism

  by Diane Steiker

  Download this lesson plan as a Word document Download the handout for this lesson plan Download the PowerPoint for this lesson planThis lesson is envisioned as a two-day lesson, which can be extended to a third day, by including an additional day of preparation for the consensus building exercise, and another day for including the New Thinking on Climate Crisis enrichment video.Common Core Standards Correlation:English Language Arts Standards - History/Social Studies - Grades 6-8:Key Ideas and Details: RH.6-8.1. RH.6-8.2. RH.6-8.3.Craft and Structure: RH.6-8.4. RH.6-8.5. RH.6-8.6.Integration of Knowledge and Ideas:RH.6-8.7.Readings/Resources: