• Bookshelf: The Troubled History of Environmentalism

    By Bob Wilson   The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation by Adam Rome The Light-Green Society: Ecology and Technological Modernity in France, 1960-2000 by Michael Bess Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images by Finis Dunaway   Why have Americans been unable or…

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  • Making Tracks: Robert Wilson

    In the “Making Tracks” series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Scholar Activist?” By Robert Wilson  My journey to the Rachel Carson Center began five years ago in a hot, stifling Washington, DC jail…

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  • All Environmental Politics is Local: What Today’s Climate Activists Can Learn From Yesterday’s Antipollution Movement

    Post by Christopher Sellers As we approach the forty-third Earth Day, American climate activism has finally gotten feisty. Hopes have arisen that its sway can approach that of the antipollution movement of the 1960s, out of which the first Earth Day sprang. A recent “Forward Climate” protest on February 17 drew an estimated 35–40,000 people…

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