Senate hopefuls spar at forum over green credentials Nov 18, 2009
Khazei cited the environmentalist author Rachel Carson and former vice president Al Gore. Pagliuca also picked Gore. (Boston Globe)
Let the sky be blue again Nov 14, 2009
Environmentalist Rachel Carson said in her famous 1962 book "Silent Spring" that "to have risked so much in our efforts to mold nature to our satisfaction and yet to have failed in achieving our goal would indeed be the final irony. Yet this, it seems, is our situation. The truth, seldom mentioned but there for anyone to see, is that nature is not so easily molded...". We can't change the past, yet we can design our future. (Xinhuanet, China)
Rachel Carson's Bay State days Oct 26, 2009
If you are of a certain age - or lean toward the trees - you ve no doubt read Rachel Carson s 1962 book Silent Spring, which alerted the US public to the devastation wrought by DDT and other pesticides on the environment ... Also, after this blog post appeared, I heard from Carson s biographer, Linda Lear, who notes Carson s Massachusetts connection is well documented in her book Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature, which has been reprinted this year ... Also, coincidentally last night, there was... (Boston Globe)
‘Earth Days’ examines when the green movement took root Oct 9, 2009
For many members of the generation that grew up comfortably ensconced in the trappings of the American middle class, Rachel Carson s Silent Spring hit like a bomb in 1962. The book presented a world poisoned by pesticides and other chemical pollutants. (Boston Globe)
Science Fair Sep 26, 2009
This was three years before Rachel Carson published her landmark book , which awakened the publics awareness to the dangers of excessive pesticide use. In the years after World War II, DDT and other newly-introduced chemicals were considered wonder drugs that would once and for all protect farmers from their eternal enemy, the pests that wanted to eat their crops. (USA Today -- Tech)
‘Wilderness Warrior’ delves into Teddy Roosevelt’s fight to conserve natural wonders Sep 6, 2009
Roosevelt family members were, according to Brinkley, early animal-rights advocates; this includes TR s Uncle Rob, who wrote what Brinkley calls the mid-nineteenth-century equivalent of Rachel Carson s Silent Spring. Rob urged his countrymen to clean up rivers and streams to save America s fish, and converted his young nephew to conservation. (Boston Globe)
The One Thing Sep 3, 2009
And then in 1963 Rachel Carson writes the book "Silent Spring" and she's talking about toxics and the environment ... I'm so glad the special adviser to the White House Council on Environmental Quality brought up Rachel Carson's book, "Silent Spring." Indeed, as Jones points out, she talked about "toxics" and the environment and that did open up a "whole new wave." One of the things it did was make a villain out of the pesticide, DDT. ... Then came Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," which kicked... (Fox News)
IN MY LIBRARY: JANE GOODALL Aug 30, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009 Last Update: 04:40 AM EDT. hide topics THIS WEEK'S HOT TOPICS. (New York Post -- Opinions)
What the Radical Left Doesn't Want You to Know About the 60's Aug 25, 2009
Sixties disassembles other personalities from the era, including author Norman Mailer and environmentalist Rachel Carson. Mailer saluted the societal criminal as a figure artists need to emulate and called Fidel Castro the greatest hero to appear in the Americas, among his many irrational statements. (Human Events Online)
COHASSET HEALTH NOTES: Food movie is an eye-opener Aug 12, 2009
It is a movie that may be destined to become another Silent Spring, a book by Rachel Carson that galvanized the public into an awareness of the dangers of pesticides. That book spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy leading to a ban on many pesticides and a grassroots beginning to the environmental movement. (Cohasset Mariner, MA)
York County Coast Star Jul 5, 2009
KENNEBUNK It's the thought of baby raccoons left motherless and starving that prompted Cathy Lank to plan a protest at the Rachel Carson Federal Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, July 4. - 7/2/2009. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Fourth of July is a celebration of agitation (23) Jul 5, 2009
It was only getting started and the rebellion has moved through such great forces of agitation as the abolitionists and suffragists, Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass, the Populists and the Wobblies, Fighting Bob La Follette and Huey Long, the Square Deal and New Deal, Mother Jones and Woodie Guthrie, Rachel Carson and Ralph Nader, Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez and on into todays continuing fight for economic fairness, social justice and equal opportunity for all. Without... (Paragould Daily Press, AR)
Carson's true view on using DDT Jul 3, 2009
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
Post the First Comment Jun 26, 2009
The performance, "A Sense of Wonder," told the story of Rachel Carson, a marine biologist and nature writer. Carson's writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. (The Villanovan, PA)
Brown chooses unconventional method of treatment (8) Jun 20, 2009
The first author to come out against the pesticide DDT and avoiding scavenger food was a book called Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, Brown said. She believed that prescriptions do more harm than good and there is something in nature to cure everything. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Guest commentary: The Death of Environmentalism May 19, 2009
The authors question the effectiveness of environmental tales of tragedy told by Rachel Carson and others as quasi-religious narratives that begin with unspoiled Nature as paradise, which is then destroyed by fallen man s over-consumption and materialism, and finally redeemed by sacrifice; limits to growth, sustainability, recycling, another way, learning to live with less become paths to salvation. Schellenberger argues that only a wealthy society that has taken care of the material needs of... (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Rockefeller preserve has natural appeal May 17, 2009
A resource room with oversized, Craftsman-style leather chairs contains tomes from leading nature writers such as Rachel Carson, Edward Abbey, and Henry David Thoreau. Although the center is open from May through October, the preserve's eight miles of hiking trails are accessible year-round. (Boston Globe)
How Abe, Elvis, and other luminaries really got educated Apr 19, 2009
With chapters profiling such luminaries as Ben Franklin and environmentalist Rachel Carson, it's a keyhole view into the country's first two centuries. "To describe how and what we learn is to talk about the forces of history," suggests Wolff, author of "4th of July, Asbury Park," an appealingly odd little history of the seaside New Jersey town that inspired Bruce Springsteen's vision of America. (Boston Globe)
It's OK to have weeds in your lawn, author says Apr 18, 2009
After degrees from Harvard and Radcliffe, the University of Kentucky and Cornell University, she now is an assistant professor of environmental studies at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, an acting director of the school's Rachel Carson Institute. Carson graduated from Chatham, which was then called the Pennsylvania College for Women, in 1929. (Herald Online, SC -- Lifestyles)
Passero: Go green: Naturally, inexpensively Apr 15, 2009
And Rachel Carson ( Silent Spring, 1956) would approve. Barbara Passero lives on Grant Avenue. (Belmont Citizen Herald, MA)
How PCBs May Alter In Utero, Neonatal Brain Development Apr 15, 2009
(May 27, 2008) Since the 1962 publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, awareness of how environmental toxicants can impact fertility has increased. Researchers now provide evidence that adverse reproductive. (Science Daily)
RECYCLING BIN: Educate yourself with events, resources Apr 4, 2009
Often described as today s Rachel Carson, Steingraber is recognized internationally as an expert on environmental links to cancer and human health. For details and advance registration, see. (Concord Journal, MA)
"Earth Hour": lights-off for brighter future Mar 29, 2009
The idea of sustainable development began to take shape since 1962 when American biologist Rachel Carson published his book "Silent Spring." However, until recent decades people remain addicted to massive industrial development, burdening the earth with excessive energy consumption. Just as the theme of this year's "Earth Hour" -- "Vote Earth! Your Light Switch is Your Vote" indicates, the world today needs more than mere sophisticated ideas, it needs concrete and immediate actions. (Xinhuanet, China)
How to sustain local interest Mar 26, 2009
Other speakers will include Christopher Fullerton of the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA); Patricia DeMarco of the Rachel Carson Homestead, on "Living in Harmony: Why Organic Matters"; Thomas J. Reynolds, director of the Robert A. Macoskey Center for Sustainable Systems at Slippery Rock University; and Dennis vanEngelsdorp, acting Pennsylvania state apiarist, on "Honey Bee Decline: Why it Matters.". Joshua Burnett, program manager of Grow Pittsburgh's Edible Schoolyard... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Cooler Heads May Prevail in Climate Debate Mar 25, 2009
The film details how the decision to ban DDT was based on the pseudo science -- offered up as fact -- in Rachel Carson s book, Silent Spring. Gore often cites Carson as his heroine. (Human Events Online)
BOOKS: 'Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto' Mar 24, 2009
This chapter begins with a debunking of Rachel Carson, the author of "Silent Spring" and advocate against DDT pesticides. Mr. Levin forcefully argues that Miss Carson, in the name of stopping cancer, indirectly caused the deaths of millions in the Third World who perished from the malaria carried by mosquitoes DDT helped eradicate. (Insight on the News)
Being honored Mar 20, 2009
The wine and cheese reception will be followed by a production of, "A Sense of Wonder," a one-woman performance by Lauilani Lee, celebrating the life of seminal environmental scientist Rachel Carson, the author of "Silent Spring.". Tickets for the event are available at , or by calling 636-2888. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Calendar of events Mar 19, 2009
3-24-09 - Evening with Rachel Carson, a film screening,7:15 p.m. at Ball HallSponsored by the Department of Environmental Studies and the Women's Studies Program. 3-24-09 - "Understanding the Endtime: The Mark of the Beast," 7 p.m. at Cave Common Grounds. (East Tennessean, TN)
Screenings planned for Women's History Month Mar 11, 2009
A Sense of Wonder focuses on noted environmentalist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring is credited with starting the modern environmental movement. The film will be shown more than 1,500 times this month nationwide, including at major environmental centers and colleges, Chapin said. (Utica NY Obserer, NY)
Book Buzz: Womens History Month Mar 4, 2009
Published: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 7:22 PM HST In celebration of Women s History Month, the Friends of Lihu e Public Library, in collaboration with the League of Women Voters and the Kaua i Committee on the Status of Women, is sponsoring a free public screening of Kaiulani Lee s film A Sense of Wonder: An Evening with Rachel Carson at 7 p.m., March 25, at the Lihu e Library Conference Room ... Try Rachel Carson, Jane Goodall or Alice Waters ... Rachel Carson s book focuses on the poisons from... (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Ask the Experts: What are bedbugs? Are they Dangerous? Feb 28, 2009
But they have been making a comeback since the insecticide was banned in the U.S. in 1972, a decade after journalist Rachel Carson documented the chemical's damaging effects on humans and in her book Silent Spring. "I'm petrified to turn the lights off at night," one discouraged New Yorker told this week. (Scientific American)
* FEATURE: Environmental campaigner uses soft power Feb 16, 2009
Chinas equivalent of Silent Spring, said Mark ONeill, a colleague during the 1990s, refering to the 1962 book by Rachel Carson credited with helping launch the environmental movement in the US.. ONeill said Mas calm approach was crucial to the NGOs success. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Mike Turner The intensity is seen in Mike Turner’s work at the 2008 Minnesota high school all-star football game. Feb 8, 2009
He began his teaching career at Vanderbilt University in Nashville in 1961, the same year Rachel Carson s Silent Spring was published, launching public awareness of the relationship between the environment and human health. Vanderbilt was a great school, but the focus of the biology department was to send students onto med school, he said. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
The on-air interrupters Feb 7, 2009
I once heard Limbaugh say that Rachel Carson (author of "Silent Spring" and arguably the herald of the environmental movement) was responsible for more human deaths than Stalin and Hitler put together, reason being that her book got the pesticide DDT banned, resulting in the death of millions of Africans over three generations ... So the correct number of Africans who died because of Rachel Carson would be zero, not 30 million. (NJ.com -- Times)
