The nation stands on the precipice of some of the greatest natural resource and environmental threats since the dawn of the modern environmental movement. These challenges range from climate change to ...

Terms like “environmental racism” or “environmental justice” were not yet part of the national lexicon when the Rev. Martin ...

The Environmental Movement in Germany: Prophets and Pioneers ... "Consigning the Twentieth Century to History: Alternative Narratives for the Modern Era." American Historical Review 105 (2000), 807-31 ...

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was a landmark in the development of the modern environmental movement. Her scientific perspective about the effect of pesticides on the natural world sparked ...

The foundational law of the modern environmental movement has been turned into a rubber stamp to enrich for-profit corporations, and we doubt the courts will stand for that.” Federal agencies will now ...

Her book is often cited as the kick-off of the modern environmental movement. The year after its publication, President Kennedy set up an advisory committee on environmental matters. In 1969 ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made the connection between living conditions in poverty-stricken rural and urban areas, and how ...

letters and recent scholarship, the film illuminates both the public and private life of the soft-spoken, shy scientist who launched the modern environmental movement.

In our time, the tension between this postmodern sensitivity about power and the modern scientific view of nature is most prominently on display in the environmental movement. Near the core of the ...

But despite what seems to be ever-worsening environmental news, the growing solarpunk movement has a radically ... hopelessness about the state of modern life. These bleak visions of the future ...