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Ecology? Look it up! You’re still involved
This year has been the 50th Anniversary of Greenpeace. During this era, a half-century ago, citizens around the world began seeing signs of a pending ecological crisis, and began to talk about it.
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Women in the Vanguard of Ecology
This year, Dr. Vandana Shiva's Women’s Day statement inspired me to think about some of women who have been essential to ecological awareness in human society.
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Our Entangled World
I found myself pondering deeper questions, such as what it means to identify one species from another, how evolution really works, and how the complexity of soil ecology might inform us about the challenges of human survival and social cohesion.
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An ecology reading list for self-isolating environmentalists
There are over a million ecology books in print, and sorting through them might be a challenge. These are some of the essential classics in the field.
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Meet the women of West Africa who are fighting for our oceans
"The livelihoods of women are the livelihoods of a nation.’’ - Thando Kimora, climate activist from South Africa
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A Brief History of Environmentalism
Anthropologists have found evidence of human-induced animal and plant extinctions from 50,000 BCE, when only about 200,000 Homo sapiens roamed the Earth. We can only speculate about how these early humans reacted, but migrating to new habitats appears to be a common response.
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Where is the hope?
How do we reverse species loss, climate change, toxins, general overshoot of Earth’s generous habitats?
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Brent Spar: The sea is not a dustbin
In August 2016, Prestel Books published Photos That Changed the World, including this image of the Greenpeace Brent Spar campaign, captured by David Sims on 16 June 1995. Greenpeace approaches…
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Rachel Carson – And the birth of modern environmentalism
Rachel Carson's courage ignited an ecological awareness that burns to this day.
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Nature: A System of Systems
For the last thirty years, even with a massive increase in wilderness groups, species diversity has plummeted and the rate of decline has accelerated.