Research Catalog

Title

Greenspeak : fifty years of environmental muckraking and advocacy / Michael Frome.

Author

Frome, Michael.

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2002], ©2002.

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Description

xx, 291 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm

Subjects

• Environmental protection
• Environmentalism
• Conservation of natural resources

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

• Take the Bull by the Tail and Get a Toehold -- Where I Came In -- Recreation - A Substitute for Conservation? -- Talking to the Rangers -- Insects and Weeds Need Friends -- Prejudice, Predators, and Politics -- Protecting the Public Options -- It's Tough Enough to Make a Living, but Tougher to Say Something That Counts -- Twentieth Anniversary of the Wilderness Act - Still in Pursuit of the Promised Land -- Wildlife and Man in the Adirondacks: Past, Present, and Future -- Could My Words Possibly Make Any Difference? -- For Love of the Beautiful Counts Most -- Why Must We Save the Forest from Foresters? -- Speaking, Teaching, and Raising a Little Hell in Academia -- A Curriculum for Wilderness Leadership -- Everything Changes with Crowds and Jingling Cash Registers -- Preserving the Endangered Principle -- Wildlife History, with Ecological Perceptions -- We Need a U.S. Wilderness Service -- Replacing Old Illusions with New Realities -- Water Is More than a Commodity --
• Little Wonder Managers Keep Their Heads Down and Duck -- Objectivity Is Not the Answer - but Advocacy Journalism Makes the Difference -- Media and the Environment: Passion, Politics, and Empowerment -- Media as the Messenger -- Why Downsizing instead of Upsizing? -- For Students with Daring Dreams -- Parks Are Better without the Pork -- No More "Sacrifice Areas," Please -- I Prayed to Rise above Paradigms, Postulates, Phenomenology, and Epistemology -- Forty and Fifty Years Ago They Were Missionaries -- Keeping the Faith and Friends -- I Must Be Still to Hear and See -- One More for the Road.

ISBN

1572331771 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002004365

OCLC

• ocm49511671
• SCSB-4317879

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries