Book Description
This collection of readings contains comprehensive primary and secondary works in the field of conservation, emphasizes the history of ideas and attitudes about conservation, and gives a chronology of important conservation events in U.S. history from the beginning to the present. Edited by a national leader in the fields of conservation, environmental management, and education, this well-organized anthology is appropriate for courses dealing with American environmental studies and ecology.
Customer Reviews:
A worthy addition to the tree-hugger's bookshelf.......2001-06-14
What a joy to see that this book is back in print! When our nature book discussion group chose it as a monthly selection several years ago, we had to scramble to find copies. I was one of the lucky ones who got one, read it all, and underlined a whole slew of passages for later reference.
Here are some of my favorite quotes:
"Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords." (George Perkins Marsh, 1864)
"Environment is to the would-be cultured man what air is to the animal -- it is the breath of life." (Benton MacKaye, 1928)
"When you have reached the edge of an abyss ... the only progressive move you can make is to step backward." (David R. Brower, 1977)
Then the compiler adds his answer to the question "Why do we love wilderness?" by giving seven reasons: scientific value, spiritual values, aesthetic value, heritage value, psychological value, cultural value, and intrinsic value. His explanations make this selection the one I most often pass on to other people. (Roderick Frazier Nash, 1988)
My advice is to buy this book as a present for your favorite environmentalist friend. Sure, you could go instead with _The Quotable Nature Lover_, a Nature Conservancy book edited by John A. Murray. But _American Environmentalism_ puts those kinds of quotes back into context; the editor not only provides full text but also explains what was going on at the time of its writing. Selections are arranged chronologically and are short enough to hold anyone's interest. And we're not talking just Thoreau, Muir, Carson and Leopold here, as the excerpts above show. There are names you might not recognize at first glance. Amateur environmentalists can use this compilation as a starting point for further reading, as full citations are always provided. Though it's not entirely current (1989) this book is still useful.
Give it to a graduating senior, or to anyone else who has the potential to save the planet. They'll be inspired.
A good reader.......2000-05-23
This isn't the type of book someone could pick up and get a good view of the American Environmental movement. It does well in teaching about past movements but ignores modern movements like Environmental Justice and the controversy surrounding Market Based Incentives. It is a good book for teaching if coupled with extra material as it is very readable and interesting.
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A recent history replete with compromise and capitulation has pushed a once promising and effective political movement to the brink of irrelevance.
So states Mark Dowie in this provocative critique of the mainstream American environmental movement. Dowie, the prolific award-winning journalist who broke the stories on the Dalkon Shield and on the Ford Pinto, delivers an insightful, informative, and often damning account of the movement many historians and social commentators at one time expected to be this century's most significant. He unveils the inside stories behind American environmentalism's undeniable triumphs and its quite unnecessary failures.
Dowie weaves a spellbinding tale, from the movement's conservationist origins as a handful of rich white men's hunting and fishing clubs, through its evolution in the 1960s and 1970s into a powerful political force that forged landmark environmental legislation, enforced with aggressive litigation, to the strategy of "third wave" political accommodation during the Reagan and Bush years that led to the evisceration of many earlier triumphs, up to today, where the first stirrings of a rejuvenated, angry, multicultural, and decidedly impolite movement for environmental justice provides new hope for the future.
Dowie takes a fresh look at the formation of the American environmental imagination and examines its historical imperatives: the inspirations of Thoreau, the initiatives of John Muir and Bob Marshall, the enormous impact of Rachel Carson, the new ground broken by Earth Day in 1970, and the societal antagonists created in response that climaxed with the election of Ronald Reagan. He details the subsequent move toward polite, ineffectual activism by the mainstream environmental groups, characterized by successful fundraising efforts and wide public acceptance, and also by new alliances with corporate philanthropists and government bureaucrats, increased degradation of environmental quality, and alienation of grassroots support. Dowie concludes with an inspirational description of a noncompromising "fourth wave" of American environmentalism, which he predicts will crest early in the next century.
Customer Reviews:
What goes around, comes around........2002-11-30
Although this book is now 7 years old, it seems more relevant today than when Dowie wrote it. I keep hoping for a new, revised, edition. The elections of 2000 and 2002 have shown that the mainstream environmental organizations in the U.S. have lost most of their strength in the political arena. Despite major attempts to influence elections. . .the Senatorial race in Colorado for example. . .their efforts were either not effective or salient to the electorate. The Green Party seems to have filtered off those voters who are primarily concerned with environmental issues and most indications are that those voters are not impressed with the mainstream environmental establishment in the U.S. The Green Parties of Europe seem to be making a resurgence, but progress in the U.S. is not evident.
Dowie's main critique is of the established, major environmental organizations; those groups who enjoyed so much growth during the Reagan era as a reaction to James Watt and others in the Reagan Cabinet. While Gale Norton is from the same mold as Watt, and Christy Todd Whitman is not far removed, they do not seem to be provoking the same degree of unrest among America's electorate. Arguable the Administration of George "5-4" W. Bush is even worse than Reagan Administration in Environmental Policy, and seem to be drifting even further since the 2002 elections. However the major environmental organizations do not seem to be able to focus attention, or perhaps interest, on this issue. The reason for that may be changing social and cultural norms, but it also may be due to the perception that these organizations are not relevant.
Dowie's book may be a bit out-of-date, but it is well worth the read. I think Dowie was right in 1995 and his ideas still ring true today.
A good history of American environmentalism.......2002-06-24
I havn't read much about the history of environmentalism so when I saw this at a used bookstore I decided to pick it up. It gave a very good overview about how environmentalism progressed throughout the 20th century and the different groups involved. At the end the author gives his theory about where the environmental movement is heading in the future. Overall I would recommend it to anyone interested in environmental politics and the movement in general.
Good Points.......2001-02-20
I think Mark Dowie did a great job showing some problems of today. Even though I feel this book was meant to be read in the mid-1990s, Dowie's points are still valid. Dowie also showed how different groups that call themselves *environmentalists* have different areas of concern (not all are out to save the "cute fuzzy animals," but have other important concerns/issues).
Critique of mainstream's blindsiding of the environment........1996-10-05
Perhaps the greatest weakness of individual environmentalists and the
environmental "movement" is the absence of public self-examination. While
political insiders may clearly see the difference between the National Wildlife
Federation and the Sierra Club, the public has few resources to gauge them.
Opening the doors is author Mark Dowie, a champion of local activism and the
integration of environmental issues with other social movements. Tracing the
origins and bureaucratization of the environmental movement, Dowie criticizes
the most recent surge of co-option, the "third wave" or economics-based
environmentalism.
"Regulatory flexibility and 'constructive engagement' with
industry have created some business heroes, but they can be counted on one
hand," he writes. "The rest, unfortunately, need to be regulated." This is not to
say this book is a rant against environmental business. There are no heroes or
villains in this book, which makes it a rarity in the environmental lexicon.
Instead, Dowie criticizes the corporate structure of environmental groups, and
portrays each organization with their individual merits and flaws. Compromising
Local Leadership Dowie reminds readers of the decision by the Natural
Resources Defense Council and Cultural Survival to negotiate with the
Ecuadorian government over oil drilling in the Yasuni Reserve. Arguing that oil
drilling would be inevitable, and "[w]ithout consulting the Huaorani people or the
appropriate Ecuadorian environmental organizations, [NRDC's] Scherr and
Kennedy struck a deal: Conoco could drill on the Huaoroni reserve in return for
a $10-million donation to an Ecuadorian foundation created by NRDC and
Cultural Survival, an indigenous-rights groups based in Cambridge,
Massachusetts."
The NAFTA debate saw essentially the same argument made: free
trade is inevitable, so environmentalists have to go along and get what they can.
NAFTA's "It's a win-win-win situation" argument was accepted by various
environmental groups. In the long run, the agreement and side provisions may
indeed provide resources and rewards for cross-border environmental planning.
But Dowie draws back to review the consequences of increased commerce.
"It
should be clear to any environmental thinker that free trade can only lead to the
globalization of massive, consumer- based economies that are, in the long run,
whatever the legislated safeguards, ecologically destructive. But mainstream
environmental officials evidently don't think a lot about the distant future. Like
the corporations they have come to resemble, they tend to be occupied with the
day-to-day imperatives of strategy, competition and survival." From a parochial
viewpoint, it would have been interesting had Dowie included a critique of the
way in which many D.C. groups finally "discovered" environmental problems
along the border and how most of these organizations lost interest in the border
after NAFTA passed.
It would also be interesting to document the criticism the
mainstream groups made of those local groups that disagreed with them on the
potential consequences of NAFTA. At the Center and Stumbling The problem
with mainstream environmental groups stems from their decisions in the 1980s to
focus energies on power plays in Washington, D.C., instead of reaching out to
state and community organizations.
Had the focus remained on "reaching out to
state, local and regional organizations," he writes, "the American environmental
movement today would be much stronger and more consequential than it is. An
explosive critical mass of national activism could have been formed. Instead, a
relatively harmless and effete new club appeared." Dowie suggests that the
disproportionate ratio of funding (70 percent to 30 percent) between mainstream
and grassroots groups remains an obstacle for community organization,
suggesting that "a 20-point shift, of $200 million would change the complexity of
the entire environmental community."
The publication of Losing Ground offers
readers an insightful view of relations among environmental groups, many of
which demand transparency in government and business circles, but not among
themselves or their colleagues. This is one of the most valuable guidebooks and is
one of the year's must-reads.
Critique of mainstream's blindsiding of the environment........1996-10-05
Perhaps the greatest weakness of individual
environmentalists and the environmental "movement" is the absence
of public self-examination. While political insiders may clearly
see the difference between the National Wildlife Federation and
the Sierra Club, the public has few resources to gauge them.
Opening the doors is author Mark Dowie, a champion of local
activism and the integration of environmental issues with other
social movements.
Tracing the origins and bureaucratization of the
environmental movement, Dowie criticizes the most recent surge of
co-option, the "third wave" or economics-based environmentalism.
"Regulatory flexibility and 'constructive engagement' with
industry have created some business heroes, but they can be
counted on one hand," he writes. "The rest, unfortunately, need
to be regulated."
This is not to say this book is a rant against environmental
business. There are no heroes or villains in this book, which
makes it a rarity in the environmental lexicon. Instead, Dowie
criticizes the corporate structure of environmental groups, and
portrays each organization with their individual merits and
flaws.
Compromising Local Leadership
Dowie reminds readers of the decision by the Natural
Resources Defense Council and Cultural Survival to negotiate with
the Ecuadorian government over oil drilling in the Yasuni
Reserve. Arguing that oil drilling would be inevitable, and
"[w]ithout consulting the Huaorani people or the appropriate
Ecuadorian environmental organizations, [NRDC's] Scherr and
Kennedy struck a deal: Conoco could drill on the Huaoroni reserve
in return for a $10-million donation to an Ecuadorian foundation
created by NRDC and Cultural Survival, an indigenous-rights
groups based in Cambridge, Massachusetts."
The NAFTA debate saw essentially the same argument made:
free trade is inevitable, so environmentalists have to go along
and get what they can. NAFTA's "It's a win-win-win situation"
argument was accepted by various environmental groups. In the
long run, the agreement and side provisions may indeed provide
resources and rewards for cross-border environmental planning.
But Dowie draws back to review the consequences of increased
commerce.
"It should be clear to any environmental thinker that free
trade can only lead to the globalization of massive, consumer-
based economies that are, in the long run, whatever the
legislated safeguards, ecologically destructive. But mainstream
environmental officials evidently don't think a lot about the
distant future. Like the corporations they have come to resemble,
they tend to be occupied with the day-to-day imperatives of
strategy, competition and survival."
From a parochial viewpoint, it would have been interesting
had Dowie included a critique of the way in which many D.C.
groups finally "discovered" environmental problems along the
border and how most of these organizations lost interest in the
border after NAFTA passed. It would also be interesting to
document the criticism the mainstream groups made of those local
groups that disagreed with them on the potential consequences of
NAFTA.
At the Center and Stumbling
The problem with mainstream environmental groups stems from
their decisions in the 1980s to focus energies on power plays in
Washington, D.C., instead of reaching out to state and community
organizations. Had the focus remained on "reaching out to state,
local and regional organizations," he writes, "the American
environmental movement today would be much stronger and more
consequential than it is. An explosive critical mass of national
activism could have been formed. Instead, a relatively harmless
and effete new club appeared."
Dowie suggests that the disproportionate ratio of funding
(70 percent to 30 percent) between mainstream and grassroots
groups remains an obstacle for community organization, suggesting
that "a 20-point shift, of $200 million would change the
complexity of the entire environmental community."
The publication of Losing Ground offers readers an
insightful view of relations among environmental groups, many of
which demand transparency in government and business circles, but
not among themselves or their colleagues. This is one of the most
valuable guidebooks and is one of the year's must-reads.
Average customer rating:
- Ecotopia
- A Great Concept
- Agree with Mr. Leach
- More relevant than ever 31 years later
- essential reading.
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"Ecotopia was founded when northern California, Oregon, and Washington seceded from the Union to create a "stable-state" ecosystem: the perfect balance between human beings and the environment. Now, twenty years later, the isolated, mysterious Ecotopia welcomes its first officially sanctioned American visitor: New York Times-Post reporter Will Weston.
Like a modern Gulliver, the skeptical Weston is by turns impressed, horrified, and overwhelmed by Ecotopia's strange practices: employee ownership of farms and businesses, the twenty-hour work week, the fanatical elimination of pollution, "mini-cities" that defeat overcrowding, devotion to trees bordering on worship, a woman-dominated government, and bloody, ritual war games. Bombarded by innovative, unsettling ideas, set afire by a relationship with a sexually forthright Ecotopian woman, Weston's conflict of values intensifies-and leads to a startling climax.
Customer Reviews:
Ecotopia.......2007-01-15
In 1980, the states of Washington, Oregon (probably only the western halves - the eastern halves of both states are socially conservative) and Northern California secede from the USA and build an ecological utopia, complete with recycling, alternative energy, a virtual ban on the ICE, and Native American chic. Their government policies stand in relation to the election platforms of Ralph Nader and Dennis Kucinich as the platforms of Nader and Kucinich stand in relation to George W. Bush's policies. For a few years I went to an Internet forum, one of the participants of which was a teacher of wicca and a community activist from Portland, OR with a rather authoritarian personality, who attacked people who advocated scientific rigor in public policy or expressed dislike of the work of her friend Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. She was incensed when somebody called Hillary Clinton "a left-wing politician": the real left-wingers are bell hooks, Barbara Ehrenreich (she gave a few more names that I cannot recollect at the moment). This book reminded me of her, for in Ecotopia, people like her would be in power. Yet while reading Ecotopia, just as when I was reading Edward Bellamy's Looking Backwards, I had the feeling that to some extent, I am living in this utopia, since the political movements that produced the two utopias, ecology in the 1970s and socialism in the 1890s, influenced the culture of this country in various ways.
A Great Concept.......2006-12-23
After reading "Utopias on Puget Sound," I was hooked on the history and all things utopia. I would bet that most people in Washington state and British Columbia would love to form a new country, but alas, we can dream about what life might be like if the west coast were to break away and start an ecotopia.
Agree with Mr. Leach.......2006-11-27
This novel is a mixed bag, and it's stayed with me for some time since I first read it. On the plus side, I found the book an easy, wonderfully quick read, and a pretty good exercise of world-building. I also found much to like in Ecotopia's vision, such as its environmental policies and progressive educational system, etc.
BUT...there is something decidedly specious about the ideals represented in the book, and in truth it was sometimes hard to tell if Callenbach was being sincere or satirical. Valid objections about the Ecotopian timeline aside, as well as its obvious hippy vintage, Ecotopia's almost enforced diversity--albeit in a non-bourgeois lifestyle--passive-aggression, and occasional totalitarian structure make even a tree-hugging, bleeding-heart liberal like me raise an eyebrow. Ecotopia sounds like a place that's better than Hell, but still ten floors below Heaven.
Recommended, but with a grain of salt; definitely not a play-book for the perfect society.
More relevant than ever 31 years later.......2006-07-03
Ecotopia has been on my reading list since it first appeared in 1975. I finally got around to reading it recently and was suprised to find it utterly engaging and only slightly dated (two-way TV must have seemed pretty cool prior to the Internet). Meanwhile, world population has grown by 2.5 billion and if anything the book is more relevant now than ever before. For example, in Callenbach's fabled nation, San Francisco's underground streams and creeks have been daylighted; schools don't have curricula or administrators; drug addictions are treated rather than punished; the work week is 20 hours; and the word "consumer" is not used in polite company. A great read for illiberal times.
essential reading. .......2005-05-16
What an inspirational book! Such great words sound so new because we are living in a denial so very old. What an important piece of work and how relevant now more than ever!
Written from the journal of a (quote) "dumb chauvinist ugly american bastard". Ecotopia by Ernest Callenbach details the 1 month and a half of a journalist/diplomat living within a culture (northwest) that seceded from an overwhelming backwards and depressing U.S.A. inc. It explains how day to day life would be if we lived in a democracy (a place where people are put before profits, or more likely, where people evolved their idea of what is profitable).
I would recommend this book to everyone young or old. Of course it would be hard for most people to grasp, knowing most sheeple are so loyal to their programming/ groupthink. I had to read this book a few times so it would soak in. Truly a wonderful relief and so refreshing. Please get the word out and buy this for all your friends so we can all finally start living.
So many great ideas in this book to mention. A few of these being:
1. self destructive, counter-productive lifestyles aren't very intelligent.
2. Large organizations do not work. small is beautiful.
3. Conformity is what happens to things when they are dying. Diversity and individualism are what sustain cultures in any aspect of creation.
4. The right to live. Basic levels of survival are guaranteed to all, regardless of their level of conformity. (kind of like why communities were invented for in the first place.)That poverty is the worst form of oppression and totally unnecessary.
5. A twenty hour workweek gets way more things done and much faster.
6. nuclear families are a form of torture.
7. Supply and demand is in the most part a lie.
8. How we feel in our hearts is important and worth fighting for.
8 1/2. Living in denial is not cool and will not be tolerated
9. Good things take time to mature and there is no rush, enjoy the process.
10. Women are natural leaders.
10 1/2. Polluters are dealt with justly as the criminals that they are. (given the verdict of assault or robbery) So it is simply not profitable to be a criminal anymore.
10 3/4. "Victimless" crimes such as prostitution, gambling, and drug use are no longer in the law books, since it's silly.
11. Cars are for people who don't know.
12. life is fun and should be celebrated.
13. clean water, peaceful surroundings, loving communities, beautiful scenery, sustainably co-existing, evolved selfishness, good food that doesn't kill you, incredible sex, amazing conversations, sanity, healthcare that works and is free, work that isn't prostitution, school that isn't brainwashing but actually teaches kids about life, etc... If you are interested in any of these things. read it and weep, then get to work and finally start living responsibly!
For you types that are into suicidal tendencies, sado masochism, communism, totalitarianism, strange forms of overzealous hero-worshipping, or are just plain brainwashed, I don't recommend this book. For it would be hard for you to start coming to grips with the reality that our hearts, I mean, Ernest Callenbach does with Ecotopia. then maybe you will find your way home as well. but I don't want to give away everything in this book. Happy reading!!!!! :)
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Modern American environmentalism owes much to such predecessors as Henry Thoreau, John Muir, and Theodore Roosevelt. But it owes much more, suggests historian Adam Rome, to the sprawling suburbs of the postwar era, when great sections of the country fell under the bulldozer to make way for the vaunted American Dream.
Homebuilders of the immediate postwar era did not, as a rule, take into account the environmental costs of their work--nor did they have to. "To take advantage of the cheap, unsewered land at the fringes of cities," writes Rome,
they could install septic tanks on tiny lots, in unsuitable soils, or near streams and wells. To reduce land-acquisition costs, builders also could level hills, fill wetlands, and build in floodplains. To maximize the number of lots in a tract, they could design subdivisions with no open space.
Such actions improved a builder's chances of making a profit, to be sure, but in the coming years they yielded significant opposition--and not just from the occasional birdwatcher or hiker. Activist citizen groups and government agencies began demanding responsible building and zoning practices. In the end, non-urban America's onetime habit of letting landowners do what they would on their land gave way to "an explosion of codes, regulations, and guidelines," the product of a growing awareness of environmental problems and the need to solve them--and an extraordinarily far-reaching shift in public policy.
Rome's well-written book makes a welcome addition to the history of environmental thought, one to shelve alongside the best of Lewis Mumford and Jane Jacobs. --Gregory McNamee
Book Description
The Bulldozer in the Countryside is the first scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of suburban development in the United States. The book offers a new account of two of the most important historical events in the period since World War II--the mass migration to the suburbs and the rise of the environmental movement. This work offers a valuable historical perspective for scholars, professionals, and citizens interested in the issue of suburban sprawl.
Customer Reviews:
Will we ever see an end to Septic Tank Suburbia?.......2006-09-20
Not many Environmenal Health Specialists like myself will probably ever read this book (or even the chapter 'Septic Tank Suburbia'), but they should. Sanitarians, the old term for health inspectors, have approved a crap-load of septic systems serving sprawl development in this nation, and in reading it, the old timers would quickly recognize their place in the undoing of the American environment. Regardless of their 'professional' title.
I was so impressed with the author's history of septic tank sprawl that I emailed him with thanks. I'm actually surprised no one else has reviewed this title on Amazon.
For recent American environmental history, this is one of the best.
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- Refocusing the GOP
- Exemplary leader, author lacks perspective
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William G. Milliken: Michigan's Passionate Moderate
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William Milliken, Michigan's longest-serving governor, stands as an icon of decency even among the state's most cynical political observers. Often seen by the public as a man above politics, Milliken was in truth an astute deal maker who governed by crafting coalitions with politicians that spanned the gamut from Detroit's hard-left Coleman Young to the rural conservatives of his own Republican Party.
Born in Traverse City, Michigan, Milliken fought in World War II and returned home to run the family business, served as lieutenant governor from 1965 to 1969, and was then elected to four-year terms in 1970, 1974, and 1978. Milliken stepped down after fourteen years and a record of education reform, environmental protection, urban policy, and civil rights-and a series of bruising tax fights.
Twenty years after leaving office Milliken's legacy of civility and willingness to work with political opponents stands tall. But his outspoken defense of traditional Republican values has cast him into a political no-man's land that makes this story as intensely emotional as it is relevant to today's no-holds barred politics.
Dave Dempsey presents a fully developed picture of Milliken that reveals both his strengths and weaknesses while also providing the political and historical context of Milliken's time in office-and the lessons of his life and career for current and future politicians and the public.
Dave Dempsey is policy advisor for the Michigan Environmental Council, a coalition of more than sixty-five environmental advocacy organizations. Dempsey is author of Ruin and Recovery: Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader and On the Brink: The Great Lakes in the 21st Century. He lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
"Bill Milliken has always been a thoroughgoing pluralist. He cherishes diversity and differences of opinion and he shuns extremism. . . . My hope is that history will show he was closer to the mark than the Republican Party of today."
-Congressman Sandy Levin
"This is an outstanding and long-overdue biography of a man who set the standard for how a political figure should behave in a civilized society. Anyone who wants to understand modern Michigan history-or who wants to know how our politics and government could be better today-ought to read this book."
-Jack Lessenberry
Customer Reviews:
Refocusing the GOP.......2006-07-26
This book is an excellent reminder of the impact and leadership of one of Michigan's greatest governors. There is a wave of new books out in the last few years that remind Republicans like me that protection of the environment used to be a Republican plank and that it needs to nailed back into the GOP platform. This book will resonate in the Great Lakes region since Milliken was so instrumental in the founding of several important organizations designed to protect the Lakes. As the President of the Michigan Chapter of Republicans for Environmental Protection, this book will be in my briefcase everywhere I go!
Exemplary leader, author lacks perspective.......2006-06-28
Recommended for two categories of readers, 1) anyone interested in the recent history of the state of Michigan; 2) people interested in reviewing the governance of a moderate Republican, with the best recent example being Gov. Christine Whitman of NJ.
Milliken had a profound impact on Michigan during his 14-year tenure; that impact endures to the current time, both good and bad. Like Christine Whitman's book, Milliken is a study of a modern politician that continues to embrace the legacy of Lincoln while the GOP continues to fall prey to the southern boll weevils that opposed Lincoln's principles.
The primary weakness of this book is that it yields very little analysis on the costs and benefits of Milliken's policy initiatives, which I believe seriously limits the value of this biography. Instead the author writes more like a journalist doing a hard news story; offering little insight on the impact Milliken had on the state. For those that follow Michigan politics, this will not be a problem since its easy to score his performance as you read and remember the policies of Milliken and the condition of our current economy and State, for example his creation of the single business tax, financial support for Detroit, fierce support for individual rights and his leadership and example in regards to government doing the right thing rather than the politically expedient act. Milliken was his day's anti-Tom Delay and in some ways, also his day's LBJ.
For example, I believe the author could have done a better job of lauding the governor for his pro-environment stance and the benefits we gained from his early commitment to protecting our natural resources. On the other hand, no criticism is given for the horrible bottle bill he instigated that harms business and consumers alike as other states came up with much more comprehensive and optimal methods to administrate recyclables or his institution of the single business tax that scared off potential businesses from locating to Michigan.
Another subject that warrants a serious analysis is Milliken's failed bet on Detroit. While the author captures the relationship between Milliken and Detroit and its mayor Coleman Young, there is no commentary on how the state's "investment" was eventually proven to be good money chasing bad when other, better opportunities, like enticing more business around the universities or better investing in Northern Oakland County may have increased and diversified our job base rather than subsidizing a dying city.
For all its limitations, I'm glad I invested the time to read about a good man whose personal character and qualities are virtually non-existent in today's political arena, which is our loss.
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For over half a century, the biologist Barry Commoner has been one of the most prominent and charismatic defenders of the American environment, appearing on the cover of Time magazine in 1970 as the standard-bearer of "the emerging science of survival." In Barry Commoner and the Science of Survival, Michael Egan examines Commoner's social and scientific activism and charts an important shift in American environmental values since World War II.
Throughout his career, Commoner believed that scientists had a social responsibility, and that one of their most important obligations was to provide citizens with accessible scientific information so they could be included in public debates that concerned them. Egan shows how Commoner moved naturally from calling attention to the hazards of nuclear fallout to raising public awareness of the environmental dangers posed by the petrochemical industry. He argues that Commoner's belief in the importance of dissent, the dissemination of scientific information, and the need for citizen empowerment were critical planks in the remaking of American environmentalism.
Commoner's activist career can be defined as an attempt to weave together a larger vision of social justice. Since the 1960s, he has called attention to parallels between the environmental, civil rights, labor, and peace movements, and connected environmental decline with poverty, injustice, exploitation, and war, arguing that the root cause of environmental problems was the American economic system and its manifestations. He was instrumental in pointing out that there was a direct association between socioeconomic standing and exposure to environmental pollutants and that economics, not social responsibility, was guiding technological decision making. Egan argues that careful study of Commoner's career could help reinvigorate the contemporary environmental movement at a point when the environmental stakes have never been so high.
Book Description
This "prequel" to Callenbach's classic Ecotopia dramatizes the rise and triumph of a powerful American movement to preserve the earth as a safe, sustainable environment.
The story springs from harsh realities. Toxic contamination of air, water, and food has become intolerable. Nuclear meltdowns threaten. Military spending burdens the economy. Politicians squabble over outdated agendas while the country declines. But then dedicated people begin to respond in their own ways to the crisis, and fresh hope arises. A brash physics student, Lou Swift, invents a unique solar cell that will end dependence on polluting fossil energy. Marissa D'Amico decides to devote her life to the restoration of clear-cut and eroded forests. Her mother Laura organizes a commando group of cancer victims to disable plants making carcinogenic chemicals. A distinguished but disillusioned legislator, Vera Allwen, organizes a new grassroots party working toward a survival-oriented future. Joining with thousands of others, they take their lives into their own hands—fighting the corporate control that endangers their personal survival along with that of the earth. A panorama of history about to happen, Ecotopia Emerging weaves many individual destinies into an absorbing epic: the birth of a new nation.
Customer Reviews:
A Good Idea..........2006-07-10
Great ideas are brought up, and is a definite must-read for any environmentalist. The only drawback is that some plots are not well developed. I do not understand why anyone would rate this book below a three, but I did notice a lot of people who did rate this book low are from the South (i.e. Georgia).
Most reviews from Statesboro Georgia.......2006-06-22
Most of the Amazon reviews on this book are curiously from Statesboro Georgia. Perhaps the same individual writing multiple bad reviews.
I would recommend reading Ernest Callenbach's "Ecotopia" before reading "Ecotopia Emerging", as Ecotopia sets the groundwork for this book.
Ecotopia, I don't think so.......2005-05-05
In this particular novel Ernest Callenbach tries to really show his interest in how much better the world would be as an Ecotopia, but I feel as though many of his points would take so long to actually progress within our society that we wouldn't get anywhere from an ecotoia.
This book is about a girl by the name of Lou Swift and she builds a solar cell as an alternative way of energy. She ends up joining an organization that wants to form an Ecotopia. Some of their rules in my opinion were pointless such as, "no private car ownership, no production of carcinogens, and other rules that to me were off the wall.
I feel that the only reason you should read this book is if you are into the whole Ecotopia idea or you have to read it because your teacher told you to. Otherwise, I feel as though the book was a complete waste of my time because I didn't agree with any of the points that the author made about Ecotopia's and it was a slow paced book.
Jordan Walter English 1102.......2005-05-04
Imagine a world so politically divided that there is talk about secession. A world where environmentalists could gain enough support through a political party to secede from the other 50 states. In Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia Emerging he talks about a few things which are farstrung predictions. In his book a woman named Vera Allwen starts up a political party whose goals and values are very environmentally friendly. She wants a world without cars, pollution, roads, or governmental restrictions. She fights and stands up for the states of washington, california and Oregon. With the help of a young girl named Lou Swift they plan to be able to cut themselves completely away by using her "new solar cell energy." Lou swift doesnt want to become rich off of this discovery of hers, she only wants to help out a struggling nation and supply free solar energy. This book is filled with road blocks, environmentalists, governments, anarchy and talk of secession. The government has spent to much money for war so now they cannot even keep their states in check.
I personally did not like this book. It came off as being a little to slow and boring. Some of the things he talked about might have been able to happen but others were just ludacris. No state in the UNITED states of America would ever be able to gain enough support to secede from the U.S. and the U.S. would never allow this. People are to scared of change. His ideas seemed to come from some deep down dissolusioned vision that he secretly wished for. This book did not hit any key places for me so it definattely will not be making its way to my bookshelf anytime soon. I have already sold it back to the bookstore as a matter of fact. I was not to happy with this work. I think if there was either more action or more believable events. I know most books that are fiction you would just go along with it while reading, but this one just hit an arguing point within me.
A True Ecotopia Emerging?.......2005-05-03
Ernest Callenbach dreams of a revolution is manifested in his book, Ecotopia Emerging. The book is more of a daytime soap opera with its characters and plots. But if you read into what callenbach is really saying you might begin to understand the focus of the book. It is supposed to be a wake up call. The facts that are given in the book are true. Americans are killing themselves and they are willing to let that happen. Ernest saw this coming and was trying to explain to people how serious this is. The book itself is not written very well, which is why people seem to get lost in its translation. Callenbach goes between so many characters you sometimes have to read earlier pages just to stay on point. This flaw seriously hurts the book. Also there is the extreme projections in his book. While some may be true, the author tries to hard to scare people with his doomsday predictions. Even though I believe with what Callenbach is trying to do, He goes about it in the wrong way with a contrived plot. Which is way I cannot recommend this book at all.
Book Description
"Before his 1969 assassination, Chairman Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party in Chicago famously remarked that, 'When one of us falls, 1000 will take his place.' This book proves Fred's point. No matter the degree of repression visited upon it, the spirit of revolution cannot be quelled."-Ward Churchill, author of On the Justice of Roosting Chickens
As the destruction of nature reaches new extremes, resistance becomes ever more militant. Radical environmental groups are front page news. From laboratory bombings to the destruction of ski resorts, this emerging new militancy has been steadily upping the political ante. Authorities have responded in kind, handing down unprecedented heavy prison sentences for acts of property destruction. Congressional committees have been convened, the FBI has put revolutionary environmentalists at the top of their domestic terrorism list, and the "terrorists" themselves promise bigger and more spectacular assaults in the future. This anthology features a range of voices-from academics to armed revolutionaries-that explore this new form of political struggle. The first book of it's kind on this increasingly important topic!
Steven Best, PhD, is chair of the department of philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso. He has published numerous books and articles on philosophy, cultural criticism, social theory and animal rights, and is frequently interviewed by national print and radio media.
Anthony J. Nocella II is a peace activist who teaches workshops on mediating and negotiating in revolutionary environments.
Customer Reviews:
Loved the chapter on Jainism by Charlotte Laws.......2007-08-27
I was impressed with the chapter by Charlotte Laws on Jainism. I have spent years searching for information on this elusive religion and found very little. Jainism has much to offer the environmental movement, both radical and mainstream. As a novice Jain, this chapter made me think about my own habits and realize I need to make some major changes. I can lend a hand to the environment and animals and plan to do so from now on.
A strong message to be found here!.......2006-12-22
In a time when apathy is no longer a luxury we can afford; this book delves into the deep social-environmental issues that involve us all. This book has an underlying message that hyper-individualism is not at all in our best interest, we should be practicing social responsibility for even the slightest hope of a sustainable planet.
Much of the environmental struggle reminds me of the idea that the means of resistance is not determined by the oppressed; rather the oppressor.
Are the "eco-terrorists" fighting fair? Well, how about their opponents; big business with seemingly endless financial resources and legal sway?
This book is a great read and a real motivator.
outstanding book .......2006-10-02
I have read this book twice and find something amazing everytime I read it. With so many authors talking about so many amazing and important topics, this book is perfect for anyone interested in social change, - from feminism to veganism. This book is a must read!
Raze the Roof!.......2006-09-01
People in and around mainstream environmentalism have spent the last year mentally masturbating about whether or not environmentalism is dead. Igniting a Revolution is a thoughtful, noisy, cantankerous, and courageous collection that should serve as a conceptual prophylactic that ends that debate once and for all. During a time of Green Scare when federal authorities are infiltrating activist groups everywhere, decrying "ecoterrorism" in the hollow halls of government, and carting earth and animal liberationists off to prision as quickly as possible, Best & Nocella (along with the AK collective) have edited/produced a roof raising howl of tremendous defiance and disgust. Only time will tell if the book is prophetic and ecologically mindful revolutionary forces materialize to play a role in transforming society such that a verdant peace grows out of the shorted-out circuitry of the mega-war-machine. In the meantime, however, the diverse range of essays included herein should be more than capable of setting fire to readers' imaginations as they generate ideas of how a more just, peaceful, and beautiful world might be achieved. A must read I would think for anyone with even the slightest concern for the state of the planet...
Igniting a revolution.......2006-08-07
I've been a member of the friends of AK press for about six years. Every month or so I get a package filled with books, videos and CDs. It is a cool deal, for twenty bucks a month you get everything AK press produces plus stickers and random zines.
Today I opened an AK press package and found a book with my writing in it. It was pretty cool. Igniting a revolution: voices in defense of the earth is a pretty intense anthology with a nice rant from King Maxwell. It was cool enough to be in an AK press book, but this book is filled with some serious radical stars and takes up where most of the other radical ecology books of the nineties finished.
The alliance-orientented big tent approach is worn on most of our sleeves. Queers, radical labor peeps, "take back the land" indigenous activists, eco-feminists, animal liberationists, anti-civilization roughnecks - y'all are included in here. This ain't your Dave Foreman radical ecology.
Despite being in the book, I had no idea who else was going to be included. Poems from anti-imperialist political prisoner Marilyn Buck help to set the tone of the text as open but SERIOUS. A few poetic words are included on being imprisoned by Little Chairman Fred Hampton - POCC. The book includes a nice essay from Robert Jensen who seems to agree with the 100-mile diet as a revolutionary ecological tactic and a piece by Derek Jensen on his own direct action. Adam Weismann, a dedicated NY activist who is serious about freegan scavenging and helps to articulate a feral city-based life style in his chapter. L. Kimmerer offers a strong argument about faith and liberation.
I'm kind of excited that there is a fervent discussion on the contribution of the anti-civilization movements to earth liberation activities. John Zerzan drops a brief tribute to liberation. Imprisoned activists Rob Los Ricos and "Critter" Marshall get seriously hardcore on folks while Jeff "Free" Luers tells his story of radical activism.
Igniting a revolution has a great section on repression with words from a dozen folks who've done time for earth, native, and anti-imperialist actions. Sara Olson, the symbionese liberation army underground activist who was captured in 1999 calls for Armageddon. Rik Scarce writes about the repression of authors and activists. Anne Hansen also provides a chapter reflecting on her own contributions to earth liberation and the continued value of direct action.
The two highlights of the book in my opinion are former Black Panther and former BLA activist Ashanti Alston's essay on the cross-fertilization between militants called "Mojo Workin'" - an awesome dialogue. The other piece which brought me to tears was pattrice jones' "stomping with the elephants" which documents how humans can learn from animals about liberation. Both should be required reading, and soon will be in my classes . . .
Closing with a poem from BLA coordinator Jalil Muntaqim on Katrina, the book stands as an incredible testament to the power and diversity of the struggles for the earth. There is no other text like this - certainly nothing as diverse or as militant.
The book is awesome and worth your attention. Support AK Press, get your learn on and buy one now!
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- The battle over Hetch Hetchy, told myth-free
- Hetch Hetchy Native American story is always left out. Indians should be included.
- Excellent Research and Writing
- A classic of environmental history
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The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
Robert W. Righter
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In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its mayor, James Phelan, pressed for the damming of the Tuolumne River in the newly created Yosemite National Park, setting off a firestorm of protest. For the first time in American history, a significant national opposition arose to defend and preserve nature, led by John Muir and the Sierra Club, who sought to protect what they believed was the right of all Americans to experience natural beauty, particularly the magnificent mountains of the Yosemite region. Yet the defenders of the valley, while opposing the creation of a dam and reservoir, did not intend for it to be maintained as wilderness. Instead they advocated a different kind of development--the building of roads, hotels, and an infrastructure to support recreational tourism. Using articles, pamphlets, and broadsides, they successfully whipped up public opinion against the dam. Letters from individuals began to pour into Congress by the thousands, and major newspapers published editorials condemning the dam. The fight went to the floor of Congress, where politicians debated the value of scenery and the costs of western development. Ultimately, passage of the passage of the Raker Act in 1913 by Congress granted San Francisco the right to flood the Hetch Hetchy Valley. A decade later the O'Shaughnessy Dam, the second largest civil engineering project of its day after the Panama Canal, was completed. Yet conflict continued over the ownership of the watershed and the profits derived from hydroelectrocity. To this day the reservoir provides San Francisco with a pure and reliable source of drinking water and an important source of power. Although the Sierra Club lost this battle, the controversy stirred the public into action on behalf of national parks. Future debates over dams and restoration clearly demonstrated the burgeoning strength of grassroots environmentalism. In a narrative peopled by politicians and business leaders, engineers and laborers, preservationists and ordinary citizens, Robert W. Righter tells the epic story of the first major environmental battle of the twentieth century, which reverberates to this day.
Customer Reviews:
The battle over Hetch Hetchy, told myth-free.......2006-06-19
Note/question: Are a certain breed of modern environmentalists giving my review "unhelpful" ratings because of the "myth-free" comment (which is true), or what?
The biggest myth, and one that I'll admit was in my head, was that John Muir and the early Sierra Club wanted to preserve Hetch Hetchy as wilderness, with all the ideas of wilderness that we have today, whether post-Aldo Leopold or post-Wilderness Act.
Not true.
They envisioned development of the whole area, just somewhat less intensely than Yosemite Valley. In fact, a number of Sierrans openly favored building a road **up the Tuolumne Valley to the Meadows!** (Others favored building the Yosemite Valley road further up the Merced, then turning it left toward the Tuolumne Meadows as well.)
In short, to some fair degree, the battle over whether or not to damn Hetch Hetchy was a split between the "conversationist" and "preservationist" wings of early 20th century environmentalists. A minority of Sierrans supported damning Hetch Hetchy, in fact.
Meanwhile, the whole battle moved beyond environmental issues and definitions to pushing for public utilities, and San Francisco was served by both private water and private electricity at this time.
One can see the makings of an epic conflict that crossed the desks of multiple Interior secretaries before being hammered out in Congress.
And Robert Righter tells this story in detail, giving full play to San Francisco's side, including today, ever since Interior Secretary Donald Hodel first broached the idea of dam removal and brought Hetch Hetchy's history back to daylight.
Hetch Hetchy Native American story is always left out. Indians should be included........2006-02-25
I have noticed that a lot of books written about the historical facts of Hetch Hetchy seldom include the original Indians of Hetch Hetchy.
The early owners of Hetch Hetchy Valley were Paiutes. The leader of those Paiute Indians was Captain Jim, who was a sub-chief of the Mono Lake Paiutes. Why is that never written in the story of the Native Americans of Hetch Hetchy. There is proof out there and the Yosemite National Park Service is not mentioning this fact.
When writers are doing books about Hetch Hetchy they should remember the Indians of Hetch Hetchy. The early Native American people who owned Hetch Hetchy before white settlers entered the Valley. The Mono Paiutes.
Excellent Research and Writing.......2005-09-14
This is the only book I have ever read on the Hetch Hetchy matter and I don't think I would have to read another one. Although the author reveals himself as more of an environmentalist in the sense that he would have like to have seen the valley preserved, I felt he was very, very fair in describing the motivations, merits and flaws of both sides and debunking the myth that this was solely enviromentalism vs progress. His research led him to the conclusion that even John Muir was not looking to keep the valley in a pristine state. He and his followers thought that such beauty should be experienced and shared by everyone and they wanted to develop the valley for tourism, probably of the kind we see today in the Yosemite Valley. Other themes were public power vs. privately owned utilities and municipal water systems vs. private water companies that were supplying the city prior to the HH dam being built. All these debates were also taking place in the backdrop of Teddy Roosevelt's progressivism, the recent birth of the National Forest and National Park systems and the devastation of the 1906 SF earthquake and fire (for which there wasn't enough water to successfully fight).
The author manages to tell his even story in a relatively short 244 pages, including interesting chapters on the legacy of the HH controversy and the talk of restoring the valley someday, a notion which I consider very far-fetched given the costs of replacing the dam's water as well as the hydroelectric power it produces. Pleasant as the sight of the valley would be, in today's world of fighting for every public dollar and the pressure to build more electric generation, I can't imagine we would agree to this. The author admits as much, but applauds the fact that it is at least talked about.
A classic of environmental history.......2005-04-13
Robert W. Righter has extended his reputation as a leading American environmental historian by this informative and well written account of the building of the Hetch Hetchy dam in Yosemite National Park in the early 1900's. He is candid and even handed in admitting that there were and are no easy answers in this complex history of building a dam in a national park. This book follows his earlier and acclaimed book (Crucible for Conservation, The Struggle for Grand Teton National Park) which contains the compelling story of the establishment of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming in which the issue was whether the Park as a contiguous and viable entity would ever be established over the objections of local and regional political and other interests.
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