“Ecology is a subversive subject.”
— Paul Sears, BioScience, July 1964.

Last November, British television’s Channel 4 aired ‘What the Green Movement Got Wrong’, attacking environmentalism while supporting nuclear power, DDT, genetically modified crops... Read more >

“If you don’t have some appreciation of the economy as being embedded in the natural systems of the planet, you’re not going to get very far understanding why we’ve got the problems we have with the environment, and how we’re going to solve them.”
— Pe...

Cities at sea level around the world – including Bangkok, New Orleans, Shanghai and Amsterdam – are bracing themselves for rising seas and sinking ground. Populations on river deltas, atolls and islands face flooding and displacement. Sea-level rise a... Read more >

“The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance,
born of the Neanderthal age of biology.”
— Rachel Carson

Ecologists today must ask a difficult question: Are we succeeding? Is the human enterprise changing quickly enough? We can go to Worl... Read more >

"A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi to come back,
but they are gone. We are it."
— Marian Wright Edelman

Although men got most of the headlines in the early Greenpeace campaigns, many strong and visionary women he... Read more >