Rachel Carson - Silent Spring

The “control of nature” is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man”.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from the 1962 book that alerted the industrialised world to the dangers of unregulated pesticide use -  Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_carson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring

C.A.Bowers - Educating for Eco-Justice and Community

It is possible that educational theorists continue to frame the issue of social justice in ways that continue to exclude environmental issues because they write from a largely urban perspective.  ……

 

The source of water, the condition of the soil that yields the fruits and vegetables, the ecosystems and human communities displaced or degraded by the technologies that provide the city’s energy are out of sight, and thus largely out of mind. …..

 

Without an everyday awareness of the complex relationships between ecosystems and the political economy of transforming Nature into goods and services, the average urban dweller’s perception of reality depends largely on images designed to promote consumerism.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from the introduction of the 2001 book ‘Educating for Eco-Justice and Community’ by the american education-theorist C.A.Bowers.

Stan Rowe - Home Place : Essays on Ecology

Biology by itself is incomplete. Organisms do not stand on their own; they evolve and exist in the context of unified ecological systems that confer those properties called life. Life is not a property of protein molecules nor of protoplasm; it is a property of the ecosystems that the planetary Ecosphere comprises

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Stan Rowe writing about the science of ecology in the 1990 book ‘Home Place : Essays on Ecology’ .

http://www.ecospherics.net/index.html

Lew Welch

Step out onto the planet.

Draw a circle a hundred feet round. 

Inside are three hundred things nobody understands, and, maybe, nobody's ever really seen.

 

How many can you find?

 

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from the American ‘beat’ poet Lew Welch (1926 — May 23, 1971?) 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lew_Welch

Greenpeace - Exxon Valdez

It wasn't the Exxon Valdez captain's driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill.  It was yours.

 

a Greenpeace advertisement in the New York Times of 25^th  February 1990.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpeace

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/

Andrew McLaughlin - ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’

Unless we find effective ways of curtailing our numbers, all hopes of creating decent human societies, much less ones that allow the rest of nature to flourish, will be frustrated…….We are in danger of becoming a lonely but numerous species, scratching away at increasingly harsh and dusty Earth, eking out a livelihood that is increasingly more difficult to secure.

 

Today’s Green Thought comes from Andrew McLaughlin’s 1993 book ‘Regarding Nature : Industrialism and Deep Ecology’.

http://blogs.stuzog.com/dandeliontimes/recommended-reading/

Hazel Henderson

“The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise … economics is a form of brain damage.”

This weeks Green Thought comes from the American futurist, economist and author Hazel Henderson. Hazel is described as a futurist and an economic iconoclast.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Henderson

http://www.hazelhenderson.com/index.html

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