The Earth First Reader

Author : John Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015025288450

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The Earth First! Reader by John Davis Pdf

"Earth First! was known throughout the country as the ultra-radical wing of the environment movement. Their tactics were confrontational, sometimes illegal, and always controversial. Consequently, Earth First! received a lot of press over the years, especially surrounding the arrest and impending trial of co-founder Dave Foreman. This book preserves the original Earth First! philosophies and leaves a legacy for future generations of conservationists. Here collected are ten years of hard-hitting words by more than 40 of the best environmental writers of the decade. Dave Foreman, now executive editor of 'Wild Earth', contributed the foreword. John Davis, former editor of the 'Earth First! journal' and now editor of 'Wild Earth', edited this collection." -- book cover.

Author : Stacy McAnulty
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250197917

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Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years by Stacy McAnulty Pdf

A lighthearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the Earth--told from the perspective of the Earth itself! "Hi, I’m Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome." Prepare to learn all about Earth from the point-of-view of Earth herself! In this funny yet informative book, filled to the brim with kid-friendly facts, readers will discover key moments in Earth’s life, from her childhood more than four billion years ago all the way up to present day. Beloved children's book author Stacy McAnulty helps Earth tell her story, and award-winning illustrator David Litchfield brings the words to life. The book includes back matter with even more interesting tidbits. This title has Common Core connections.

Author : Todd Parr
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780316186889

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The EARTH Book (Illustrated Edition) by Todd Parr Pdf

"I take care of the earth because I know I can do little things every day to make a BIG difference..." With his signature blend of playfulness and sensitiviy, Todd Parr explores the important, timely subject of environmental protection and conservation in this eco-friendly picture book. Featuing a circular die-cut Earth on the cover, and printed entirely with recycled materials and nontoxic soy inks, this book includes lots of easy, smart ideas on how we can all work together to make the Earth feel good - from planting a tree and using both sides of the paper, to saving energy and reusing old things in new ways. Best of all, the book includes an interior gatefold with a poster with tips/reminders on how kids can "go green" everyday. Equally whimsical and heartfelt, this sweet homage to our beautiful planet is sure to inspire readers of all ages to do their part in keeping the Earth happy and healthy.

Author : Keith Makoto Woodhouse
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231547154

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The Ecocentrists by Keith Makoto Woodhouse Pdf

Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state of crisis. Questioning the premises of liberal humanism, they subscribed to an ecocentric philosophy that attributed as much value to nature as to people. Although critics dismissed them as marginal, radicals posed a vital question that mainstream groups too often ignored: Is environmentalism a matter of common sense or a fundamental critique of the modern world? In The Ecocentrists, Keith Makoto Woodhouse offers a nuanced history of radical environmental thought and action in the late-twentieth-century United States. Focusing especially on the group Earth First!, Woodhouse explores how radical environmentalism responded to both postwar affluence and a growing sense of physical limits. While radicals challenged the material and philosophical basis of industrial civilization, they glossed over the ways economic inequality and social difference defined people’s different relationships to the nonhuman world. Woodhouse discusses how such views increasingly set Earth First! at odds with movements focused on social justice and examines the implications of ecocentrism’s sweeping critique of human society for the future of environmental protection. A groundbreaking intellectual history of environmental politics in the United States, The Ecocentrists is a timely study that considers humanism and individualism in an environmental age and makes a case for skepticism and doubt in environmental thought.

Author : Martha F. Lee
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815603657

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Earth First! by Martha F. Lee Pdf

In the summer of 1980, Dave Foreman, along with four conservationist colleagues, founded the millenarian movement Earth First!. A provocative counterculture that ultimately hoped for the fall of industrial civilization, the movement emerged in response to rapid commercial development of the American wilderness. “The earth should come first” was a doctrine that championed both biocentrism (an emphasis on maintaining the earth’s full complement of species) and biocentric equality (the belief that all species are equal). Martha Lee was successful in gaining extraordinary access to information about the movement, as well as interviews with its members. While following Earth First’s development and methods, she illustrates the inherent instability and the dangers associated with all millenarian movements. This book will be of interest to environmentalists and those interested in political science and sociology.

Author : Cecil Castellucci
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545388108

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First Day on Earth by Cecil Castellucci Pdf

A startling, wonderful novel about the true meaning of being an alien in an equally alien world."We are specks. Pieces of dust in this universe. Big nothings.""I know what I am."Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Yet loving the world -- or, at least, an idea of the world. Then he meets Hooper. Who says he's from another planet. And may be going home very soon.

Author : Sally M. Edwards,Terry D. Edwards,Charles B. Fields
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135813031

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Environmental Crime and Criminality by Sally M. Edwards,Terry D. Edwards,Charles B. Fields Pdf

First published in 1996. One of the primary goals of this series has been to explore new areas of criminology and criminal justice, topics that constitute the frontiers of the field. This work, edited by Sally Edwards, Terry Edwards and Charles Fields exemplifies that purpose in its coverage of environmental crime. While corporate and political crime developed slowly into mainstream criminology over the last half century, environmental crime, as an area of emphasis is still in its infancy. It is unusual to have many varied and informative perspectives early in a subject's development. This volume, however, demonstrates that many people are already examining environmental crime perhaps as an extension of both the greater environmental movement and the broadening of the popular parameters of crime.

Author : John Grigg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Readers
ISBN : PSU:000014122231

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The First Reader for the Use of Schools and Families by John Grigg Pdf

Author : Derek Wall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135117528

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Earth First:Anti-Road Movement by Derek Wall Pdf

First published in 1999. Detailed accounts of major ant-road campaigns, both in the UK and internationally, are included, describing confrontations at Twyford, Newbury, Glasgow and the Autobahn in Germany, as well as information on the globalisation of Earth First!, with details of protests in Australia, Ireland, Germany, France, Holland, Eastern Europe and North America. Earth Fist! and the Anti-Roads Movement traces the origins of the movement and the history of anti-roads activism in Britain since the 1880s. Showing how green social and political theory can be linked to practical struggles for environmental and social change, Derek Wall investigates key topics of political and sociological interest.

Author : Epes Sargent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Readers and speakers
ISBN : HARVARD:HN1QDJ

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The Standard First Reader, for Beginners by Epes Sargent Pdf

Author : Mark J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134616947

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Thinking Through the Environment by Mark J. Smith Pdf

This reader brings together material from ecological thought, environmental policy, environmental philosophy, social and political thought, historical sociology and cultural studies. The extracts tell the story of the way the natural environment has been understood in the modern world and how this has recently been questioned as contemporary societies are seen as characterised by uncertainty and complexity. The literature guides the reader through the conventiaonal grounds for thinking about rights and obligations in relation to future generations, non-human animals and the biotic commununities, bringing each into question. This then leads into a critical examination of social and political theories and their capacity for drawing on ecological thought. Each of the seven sections of readings is introduced by the editor who locates the set of readings within the specific themes and issues at the heart of each section. This broad-reaching and thought-provoking set of readings stresses the diversity of response to environmental problems both within and between anthropocentric and ecocentric approaches and will encourage the reader to examine how they are manifested in the areas of environmental ethics, policy analysis and social and political theory.

Author : Robert M. Hazen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101580684

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The Story of Earth by Robert M. Hazen Pdf

Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologist’s imagination, a historian’s perspective, and a naturalist’s eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earth’s many iterations in vivid detail—from the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet. Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its field, The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order. "A sweeping rip-roaring yarn of immense scope, from the birth of the elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world." -Science "A fascinating story." -Bill McKibben

Author : James McDonald,Rebecca McDonald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 099829490X

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I Am Earth by James McDonald,Rebecca McDonald Pdf

I Am Earth introduces kids to the basic concepts of earth science while also encouraging the importance of taking care of our special planet through environmental awareness and sustainability. Keeping Earth a happy healthy place to live is important for everyone big and small. In this Earth science book for beginners, kids learn what makes our planet so uniquely special and how people can work together to keep it a healthy home.

Author : Elizabeth MacLeod
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554530571

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Thomas Edison by Elizabeth MacLeod Pdf

Learn about Thomas Edison's life and achievements even from as young as twelve years old.

Author : Rochelle Strauss
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781771381604

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One Well by Rochelle Strauss Pdf

Every raindrop, lake, underground river and glacier is part of a single global well. Discover the many ways water is used around the world, and what kids can do to protect it.