Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Energy metropolis: an environmental history of... more Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Energy metropolis: an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / edited by Martin V Melosi andJoseph A. Pratt. p. cm. — (History of the urban environment) Includes ...
... When we lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, this often entailed a journey to nearby ... more ... When we lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, this often entailed a journey to nearby Tibbetts Brook, a county park with an ... I'd especially like to thank Thomas Andrews, Mark Fiege, Emily Greenwald, Sara Gregg, Mark Harvey, Lynn Heasley, Ari Kelman, Matt Klingle, Kim ...
The debate over logging in French Pete Creek valley in Oregon between 1968 and 1978 represents a ... more The debate over logging in French Pete Creek valley in Oregon between 1968 and 1978 represents a significant shift in post-war environmental politics in the United States. Infused with ideas and participants from the counterculture, wilderness campaigns became more complex. The movement gained strength in numbers yet faced many challenges from competing strategies and objectives among wilderness advocates.
in Natural Protest: Essays on the History of American Environmentalism. Edited by Jeff Crane and ... more in Natural Protest: Essays on the History of American Environmentalism. Edited by Jeff Crane and Michael Egan. Milton Park, Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2008.
Substance abuse in parents is damaging to their children and the family system as a whole. If fam... more Substance abuse in parents is damaging to their children and the family system as a whole. If family treatment is paired with substance abuse treatment for the parents, children have the possibility of having better attachment with their parents and thus increase general functioning skills and overall family well-being. This study examined the impact of Whole Family Theraplay as an effective play therapy treatment with mothers in recovery from substance abuse and their children with attachment issues in an inpatient substance abuse rehabilitation facility. Scores indicated that women/mothers had reduced symptoms of distress and improved their mental health functioning. Their children demonstrated improved interpersonal relationships, reduced interpersonal distress, and improvement in overall mental health functioning. The implications of this study were that by implementing Whole Family Theraplay, in addition to individual and group counseling in substance abuse treatment, subjects ...
The Nature of Hope is a collection of new writings on the environmental justice movement. After a... more The Nature of Hope is a collection of new writings on the environmental justice movement. After an opening chapter by Bill McKibben about the structure of the contemporary activism, each of the 15 chapters by different authors recounts the history of a particular grassroots campaign around a specific issue, with varying degrees of synthesis or interpretation. If uniformity in style or tone is a desired quality in an edited collection, the reader will be disappointed. On the other hand, the varying approaches may be taken as a reflection of the disparate and decentralized character of the movement being described. The opening chapter, which alone may be worth the price of the book, muses on the strength of a ‘‘movement without leaders’’ in our time. Chapters are grouped into loose common themes. Each chapter briefly describes the problem being addressed, but most focus more on the people who addressed it and what they did. The forward by the editors suggests the intended audience is social activists, those looking for hope, inspiration, and ideas for how to succeed. Though all the issues are environmental in the broad sense, the editors and many of the authors emphasize a link to broader activist efforts for social justice, empowerment of minorities, and strengthening democracy. While some of the chapter authors are primarily activists most are academic social scientists. The writing is generally in that style, with heavy use of footnotes and often with commentary that puts the events into a context of social science themes such as narrative, group identities, and power relationships. Most chapters use a dispassionate scholarly tone but some show more open bias. Most bias is sympathetic to the players and concerns in the campaign they are describing but a couple appear cynically flippant or disparaging of them. The environmental justice movement that is the theme of this collection is widely viewed as having gotten its start in Warren County, North Carolina, in 1982, when a group of local and national activists rallied to oppose a toxic waste landfill in a minority rural community. It was there that the terms environmental justice and environmental racism apparently were first coined. However, as more than a few of the authors in The Nature Of Hope point out, history is more complicated. Campaigns that were similar took place independently both before and after that time. Several early chapters explicitly compare the environmental justice movement to the civil rights movement, a movement that became identified with well-known leaders and national organizations but which started out as a decentralized set of campaigns. The comparison to the civil rights movement is apt as well because the environmental justice movement may be thought of as one of its offspring. Many of its techniques are from the civil rights playbook. Many of its arguments are similar to those used by the civil rights movement and by successor movements for social justice. Beyond the specific environmental concern, many of the campaigns are cast in explicit racial, ethnic, or class terms, and the frustration of minority communities provides much of the energy behind them. That the community in Warren County, North Carolina, was poor and black, the community in Love Canal working class, the community in San Antonio Hispanic, is a central part of the story. Besides coining terms, one of the ways the Warren County, North Carolina, campaign
Preface 1 Faith in a Generous Land 2 Pathogens and Plows in the Land of Plenty 3 A Great Fur and ... more Preface 1 Faith in a Generous Land 2 Pathogens and Plows in the Land of Plenty 3 A Great Fur and Hide Marketplace 4 A Great Farming Nation 5 "A Newer Garden of Creation" 6 Naturally Horrifying: Environment in the Civil War 7 Western Lands of Wealth and Violence 8 Conserving Resources, Saving Sacred Spaces, and Cleaning the Cities: America in the Conservation Era 9 Restoring and Transforming the Land in the 1920s and 1930s 10 Abundance and Terror: Americans in World War II 11 Environmental Consensus in the Republic of Abundance 12 Environmental Reform and Schism 13 A Time of Environmental Contradictions Epilogue
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Energy metropolis: an environmental history of... more Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Energy metropolis: an environmental history of Houston and the Gulf Coast / edited by Martin V Melosi andJoseph A. Pratt. p. cm. — (History of the urban environment) Includes ...
... When we lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, this often entailed a journey to nearby ... more ... When we lived in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, this often entailed a journey to nearby Tibbetts Brook, a county park with an ... I'd especially like to thank Thomas Andrews, Mark Fiege, Emily Greenwald, Sara Gregg, Mark Harvey, Lynn Heasley, Ari Kelman, Matt Klingle, Kim ...
The debate over logging in French Pete Creek valley in Oregon between 1968 and 1978 represents a ... more The debate over logging in French Pete Creek valley in Oregon between 1968 and 1978 represents a significant shift in post-war environmental politics in the United States. Infused with ideas and participants from the counterculture, wilderness campaigns became more complex. The movement gained strength in numbers yet faced many challenges from competing strategies and objectives among wilderness advocates.
in Natural Protest: Essays on the History of American Environmentalism. Edited by Jeff Crane and ... more in Natural Protest: Essays on the History of American Environmentalism. Edited by Jeff Crane and Michael Egan. Milton Park, Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2008.
Substance abuse in parents is damaging to their children and the family system as a whole. If fam... more Substance abuse in parents is damaging to their children and the family system as a whole. If family treatment is paired with substance abuse treatment for the parents, children have the possibility of having better attachment with their parents and thus increase general functioning skills and overall family well-being. This study examined the impact of Whole Family Theraplay as an effective play therapy treatment with mothers in recovery from substance abuse and their children with attachment issues in an inpatient substance abuse rehabilitation facility. Scores indicated that women/mothers had reduced symptoms of distress and improved their mental health functioning. Their children demonstrated improved interpersonal relationships, reduced interpersonal distress, and improvement in overall mental health functioning. The implications of this study were that by implementing Whole Family Theraplay, in addition to individual and group counseling in substance abuse treatment, subjects ...
The Nature of Hope is a collection of new writings on the environmental justice movement. After a... more The Nature of Hope is a collection of new writings on the environmental justice movement. After an opening chapter by Bill McKibben about the structure of the contemporary activism, each of the 15 chapters by different authors recounts the history of a particular grassroots campaign around a specific issue, with varying degrees of synthesis or interpretation. If uniformity in style or tone is a desired quality in an edited collection, the reader will be disappointed. On the other hand, the varying approaches may be taken as a reflection of the disparate and decentralized character of the movement being described. The opening chapter, which alone may be worth the price of the book, muses on the strength of a ‘‘movement without leaders’’ in our time. Chapters are grouped into loose common themes. Each chapter briefly describes the problem being addressed, but most focus more on the people who addressed it and what they did. The forward by the editors suggests the intended audience is social activists, those looking for hope, inspiration, and ideas for how to succeed. Though all the issues are environmental in the broad sense, the editors and many of the authors emphasize a link to broader activist efforts for social justice, empowerment of minorities, and strengthening democracy. While some of the chapter authors are primarily activists most are academic social scientists. The writing is generally in that style, with heavy use of footnotes and often with commentary that puts the events into a context of social science themes such as narrative, group identities, and power relationships. Most chapters use a dispassionate scholarly tone but some show more open bias. Most bias is sympathetic to the players and concerns in the campaign they are describing but a couple appear cynically flippant or disparaging of them. The environmental justice movement that is the theme of this collection is widely viewed as having gotten its start in Warren County, North Carolina, in 1982, when a group of local and national activists rallied to oppose a toxic waste landfill in a minority rural community. It was there that the terms environmental justice and environmental racism apparently were first coined. However, as more than a few of the authors in The Nature Of Hope point out, history is more complicated. Campaigns that were similar took place independently both before and after that time. Several early chapters explicitly compare the environmental justice movement to the civil rights movement, a movement that became identified with well-known leaders and national organizations but which started out as a decentralized set of campaigns. The comparison to the civil rights movement is apt as well because the environmental justice movement may be thought of as one of its offspring. Many of its techniques are from the civil rights playbook. Many of its arguments are similar to those used by the civil rights movement and by successor movements for social justice. Beyond the specific environmental concern, many of the campaigns are cast in explicit racial, ethnic, or class terms, and the frustration of minority communities provides much of the energy behind them. That the community in Warren County, North Carolina, was poor and black, the community in Love Canal working class, the community in San Antonio Hispanic, is a central part of the story. Besides coining terms, one of the ways the Warren County, North Carolina, campaign
Preface 1 Faith in a Generous Land 2 Pathogens and Plows in the Land of Plenty 3 A Great Fur and ... more Preface 1 Faith in a Generous Land 2 Pathogens and Plows in the Land of Plenty 3 A Great Fur and Hide Marketplace 4 A Great Farming Nation 5 "A Newer Garden of Creation" 6 Naturally Horrifying: Environment in the Civil War 7 Western Lands of Wealth and Violence 8 Conserving Resources, Saving Sacred Spaces, and Cleaning the Cities: America in the Conservation Era 9 Restoring and Transforming the Land in the 1920s and 1930s 10 Abundance and Terror: Americans in World War II 11 Environmental Consensus in the Republic of Abundance 12 Environmental Reform and Schism 13 A Time of Environmental Contradictions Epilogue
College students wander around an interior courtyard at a Southeastern San Antonio Head Start hel... more College students wander around an interior courtyard at a Southeastern San Antonio Head Start helping three-and four-year-old African-American and Latino children pick out ladybugs to place on pepper, broccoli, and squash plants. University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) professors and students on this day are learning how to produce food in a food desert, providing delicious organic produce for families that can rarely afford or access it. Although college students working with young children is inspiring, the ladybug release also uses beneficial insects to remove aphids that would consume our crops while teaching these children basic ecological principles (it turns out most of the student-teachers do not fully understand these principles either). The children's delight and interest speaks to the power of nature to create awe and to catalyze their learning. And while some may hesitate to consider this activity a form of environmental protest, in the United States community farms1 have become the sites of some of the most significant challenges to the current political economy and the structures of economic and racial injustice in America and the points of resistance to the industrial agricultural economy. In this chapter I examine the ways in which community farming can challenge the dominance industrial agriculture, undermine neo-liberal capitalism, address fundamental inequity in the US and help prepare for Climate Change. In so doing, I also evaluate some of the pitfalls inherent in this movement and crucial next steps. While the discussion is broad I examine community farming in Detroit, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and San Antonio, Texas. The first two are studied as the movement arises from the community in response to serious economic stress and because they provide strong and innovative models for community farming as a site and source
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