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How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace Paul D. Blanc, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

The timeline of environmentalism can be similarly perceived, even by those closest to the movement itself. About as far away as anyone can make out in this landscape stands the distant figure of Rachel Carson, heroically holding aloft a copy of Silent Spring. In the cosmology of environmentalism, one cannot even extrapolate beyond this point: we arbitrarily fix the date of the ecological big bang as the year 1962.6 Thus, for all intents and purposes, Silent Spring becomes a holy text, a Veda of the environmental movement's own creation myth.

Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations David R. Montgomery See book keywords and concepts

Born in 1801 in the frontier community of Woodstock, Vermont, George Perkins Marsh traveled extensively through the Old World and published Man and Nature, the foundational work of environmentalism in 1864. Marsh was a voracious reader who gave up law to run for Congress in 1843 and was appointed U.S. minister to Turkey five years later. With minimal duties and ample time for travel, he collected plants and animals for the Smithsonian Institution during an expedition through Egypt and Palestine in 1851 before returning home.

Alternative Medicine?: A History Roberta Bivins See book keywords and concepts

Western consumers were disenchanted by science, and living in societies rapidly transforming around political movements—including feminism, environmentalism, anti-racism, and multiculturalism?dedicated to redressing social imbalances which had often been reinforced by the science of earlier eras. A new cultural focus on individualism, too, went against the grain of biomedical practice and the constantly decreasing time allotted to the doctor—patient encounter within orthodox medicine.

Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

MicroPlanet is a great example of high tech meets environmentalism. One of the biggest wastes of energy today in the home is being supplied with more voltage than we actually need due to lack of feedback devices that alert energy providers with vital information. MicroPlanet's electronic voltage regulators precisely regulate voltage at the point of service delivery and return excess energy back to the grid to increase electrical service reliability and to reduce oil dependency, waste, and greenhouse gas emissions. These little devices should be in every home. www.microplanet.

Our elected leaders also need to recognize finally, if belatedly, that environmentalism can help to win the war on terror. When it comes to international diplomacy, we need carrots and sticks. Sound environmental policy, aimed at addressing both global warming as well as dependence on foreign oil and nuclear proliferation, can become one of our most powerful sticks. "Yes, there is an alternative to the Euro-wimps and the neocons, and it is the 'geo-greens,'" said Thomas L. Friedman in his January 30, 2005, New York Times column.13 I am a geo-green.

There is little down side and so much to gain by taking environmentalism and global warming seriously, especially where they intersect with clear-cut national security interests. All of the new energy technologies are being created out of the global warming debate. New innovations energize economies. Going carbon-neutral will improve your personal health and the health of the nation.

They offer a strong market case for environmentalism. They are saving trees, being a good corporate citizen, and the company is making money. In fact, according to their own data, some 38 percent of their total annual newsprint production is from recovered fiber, exceeding the industry average of 30 percent. Bowater is also the largest North American consumer of old tires for tire-derived fuel.

We will be bringing the playing field up instead of sinking down to the lowest depths of ecological depravity. environmentalism as I'm talking about is a president's biggest weapon for building strong international relations; it goes so far beyond politics. So that's why America needs a president who gets it. Because we lack leadership, we are trying to regulate our way out of a mess that requires a complete national change in consciousness and spirituality. That takes placing a value on nature.

Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Alex Steffen See book keywords and concepts

CFL packaged with all those attributes—and that figure includes consumers who may think negatively of environmentalism. Since the name change and the bundling of these benefits, U.S. sales growth of Philips CFLs (which started out at essentially nil) has been growing by 12 percent or more a year. Companies inspired by this success can learn the following lessons from Philips: ¦ Price environmentally sound products comparably to conventional ones. ¦ Link environmental innovations to other benefits, like quality and durability.

Reinheriting the Earth: Awakening to Sustainable Solutions and Greater Truths Brian O'Leary See book keywords and concepts

Presidency in 2000, Gore downplayed his environmentalism to the point that it was a nonissue. His political opponents, big business and the media relentlessly attacked him on his ecological bent, so he focused instead on his own political future. It is interesting to note that Gore's college thesis advisor at the University of Tennessee was Roger Revelle, one of the pioneer scientists to warn about human-induced global warming and climate change. As an example of pack journalism, syndicated columnist George F.

Arne Naess, "Deep Ecology and Lifestyle," in The Paradox of environmentalism, edit. Neil Everndon, Symposium Proceedings, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Ontario, 1984, pp. 57-60; see also George Sessions, "Deep Ecology as Worldview" in Worldviews and Ecology, edit. M.E. Tucker and J.A. Grim, Orbis Books, Maryknoll, New York, 1994. 3. Susan Ford Collins, The Joy of Success, HarperCollins, New York, 2003. 4. Brian O'Leary, The Second Coming of Science, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, Calif., 1993. 5.

Mark Dowie, Losing Ground: American environmentalism at the Close of the Twentieth Century, MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1996. Develop Non-polluting Energy "The resistance to a new idea increases as the square of its importance." -Bertrand Russell "Man has lost the capacity to foresee and forestall. He will end up destroying the earth." -Albert Schweitzer AS A NASA astronaut appointee in the Apollo program in 1967, I felt proud to be on a team with a positive and focussed vision: to land a man on the Moon and return him to Earth safely by the end of the decade.

Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom Richard Leviton See book keywords and concepts

The 1990s will be an era of environmentalism as people become more aware of these contributing factors to disease," says another natural house advocate, Peter Sierck, a German-trained naturopath who provides environmental testing for indoor pollutants in consultation with local physicians. "Is your home or workplace making you sick?" queries Sierck. He finds answers to this question through a combination of tests for the home and residents, relying on a German-innovated form of electroacupuncture called the Veg-atest—developed in 1978 by Dr.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

In desperation, some environmentalists drafted a pleading petition addressed to the political architect of their demise, former professor of environmentalism Newt Gingrich.52 In fact, the corporate victory was so complete that the public relations industry was quietly advising its corporate clients to refrain from gloating. The February 1995 issue of O'Dwyer's PR Services said "green PR people" should "ride the Republican fueled anti-environmental backlash wave as far as possible. . . . Green PR pros are salivating at the chance to prove their worth to clients.

Bruce Harrison declares that environmental activism is dead and that its death presents an opportunity to redefine environmentalism in pro-business ways. The "activist movement that began in the early 1960s, roughly when the use of pesticides was attacked in the book Silent Spring, . . . succumbed to success over a period roughly covering the last 15 years."18 As defined by Harrison, "success" boils down to money and access to power in the nation's capitol.

Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom Richard Leviton See book keywords and concepts

The broad movement is generally called "deep ecology" to distinguish it from "shallow environmentalism." Devall notes that the deep, long-range ecology movement extends the principle of inter-relatedness into every aspect of our daily lives. The experience of deep identification with nature, says Devall, inevitably initiates a painful awareness of what ecologist Aldo Leopold once called "the wounds of the world." But this kind of compassion-generating insight must precede activism and brings with it a constant, deep questioning of social norms.

Morris, David, "The Four Stages of environmentalism," Utne Reader, (March/April 1992). Naess, Arne, "Identification as a Source of Deep Ecological Attitudes," in Deep Ecology, Tobias, Michael, editor, Avant Books, San Diego, 1985. —"Politics and the Ecological Crisis: An Introductory Note," ReVision, Vol. 13, No. 3, (Winter 1991). Neher, Andrew, The Psychology of Transcendence, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1980. Nelson, Richard, The Island Within, North Point Press, San Francisco, 1989. Oleson, Terrence D., Ph.D., and Kroening, Richard J., M.D.

In terms of what Lovelock calls "planetary medicine," these newer expressions of a Gaian ethos come closer to embodying what on a planetary scale approximates the values of empiric, holistic medicine, certainly when compared to the allopathically inspired attitudes and practices of mainstream environmentalism, not to mention our culture's standard (and irresponsible) industrial approach to the environment.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

Titled "Red Into Green," Irvine's talk claimed that environmentalism is the latest incarnation of socialism.68 Irvine's groups are bankrolled by Dresser Industries, Chevron, Ciba-Geigy, Exxon, IBM, Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical, Union Carbide, Phillips Petroleum, Mobil Foundation and Texaco Philanthropic Foundation, among others.69 Also at that conference, the right-wing Mountain States Legal Foundation gave three seminars on "Suing Environmental Organizations.

Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom Richard Leviton See book keywords and concepts

A nation of litigious, politically correct victims as the product of allopathic environmentalism is not a healthy polity by any means. Morally, it's an opportunistic infection of human character. It generates a metaphysically degenerate and intellectually disempow-ered state of mind, qualities entirely inappropriate for the demands of true democracy. An Environment of No Responsibility: A Prescription for Malpractice One of the major consequences of this enforced domination of the medical marketplace by allopathy is a consumer revolt called malpractice and the extensive litigation it entails.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

So if a tiny fraction of the world's most intelligent managers cannot model a sustainable world, then environmentalism as currently practiced by business today, laudable as it may be, is only a part of an overall solution. Rather than a management problem, we have a design problem, a flaw that runs through all business."39 CHAPTER SEVEN PoisoNiNq jUe Grassroots The people, I say, are the only competent judges of their own welfare. AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY JOSIAH QUINCY, 1774 The American Revolution viewed "the people" as the sole legitimate source of all government power.

The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World's Most Extraordinary Plant Rowan Robinson See book keywords and concepts

This new appreciation for the sublime beauty and intelligence of the natural world gave birth to numerous cultural forms, including interest in natural health, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy sources, organic dwelling concepts, antinuclear protest, and ultimately comprehensive environmentalism.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

Today, grassroots anti-toxic environmentalism is a far more serious threat to polluting industries than the mainstream environmental movement. Not only do local activists network, share tactics, and successfully block many dumpsites and industrial developments, they also stubbornly refuse to surrender or compromise. They simply cannot afford to. Their activities and success are gradually changing the acronym NIMBY to NIABY—Not In Anybody's Backyard."5 "What if everyone became a NIMBY activist?

Hemp Today Ed Rosenthal See book keywords and concepts

After two centuries of decline, the plant has been rediscovered. environmentalism and other social trends are having a positive effect upon the market and there is a good prospect for hemp's use as a building material. The seeds and their contents also have a high value. The uses of seed products will increase into cosmetics, human nutrition and medicinal qualities. In the next few years the nascent hemp industry will enlarge many times. Eventually production will have to begin in North America to meet demand for fiber and chips, which are costly to ship.

The Essential Ken Wilber: An Introductory Reader Ken Wilber See book keywords and concepts

Too many representatives of too many movements—even many very good movements, such as feminism, environmentalism, meditation, spiritual studies—seem to lack humor altogether. In other words, they lack lightness, they lack a distance from themselves, a distance from the ego and its grim game of forcing others to conform to its contours. There is self-transcending humor, or there is the game of egoic power. No wonder Mencken wrote that "Every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow citizens, usually by force; this messianic delusion is our national disease.

Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom Richard Leviton See book keywords and concepts

Origins of Western environmentalism," Scientific American, (July 1992). Hameroff, Stuart Roy, "Ch'i: A Neural Hologram? Microtubules, Bioholography, and Acupuncture," American Journal of Chinese Medicine, Vol. 2, No. 2, (1974). Hiss, Tony, The Experience of Place, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990. Ingham, Eunice D., The Original Works of Eunice D. Ingham, Ingham Publishing, Saint Petersburg, 1984. Johnson, Denny, What the Eye Reveals, Book One: An Introduction to the Rayid Method of Iris Interpretation, Rayid Publications, Goleta, 1984. Kelley, Kevin W.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

Wise Use" groups.60 In fact, Hill & Knowlton, Burson-Marsteller, Edelman PR, Shandwick, Fleishman-Hillard, Bruce Harrison and other greenwashers had been working for Wise Use all along. But now, they could come out of the closet, since their tactics of cooptation had the real greens on the run. Crafty Alliances The Washington Post reported that even a decade ago, Burson-Marsteller's DC office alone had five PR specialists concentrating only on designing coalitions for clients.

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