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MAN ON A MISSION: Ron Arnold is the king of environmental backlash. (Photo: YouTube)
The potent allure or either money or ideology, or both, leads a lot of people to devote their lives to either impeding environmental progress, or enabling
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Plenty
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The Rachel Carson that's come down to most Americans -- mostly through biographers, since she didn't discuss her childhood much -- is a girl who grows up on a hilltop in an unspoiled natural world.
At the beginning of her classic, "Silent Spring," she
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A new book called "How Lincoln Learned to Read" is subtitled "Twelve Great Americans and the Educations that Made Them." The author, Daniel Wolff, investigates the influences that formed the sensibilities of American figures ranging from Abraham
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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$1.5 million announced for projects at Rachel Carson National Wildlife refuge
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins have announced the U.S. Department of Interior will distribute $4.3 million in funding to fish and
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What do Roberto Clemente, Andy Warhol and Rachel Carson have in common? They are three of Pittsburgh's famous residents, and in the past 10 years, their names became permanently
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GoErie.com
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Malaria was almost eradicated from the face of the earth thanks to DDT. In 1962, Rachel Carson’s book “Silent Spring” was published, warning of the elimination of birds and humans as a result of pesticide screening. The environmental movement was born
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One celebrated historical figure from Pittsburgh who should be forgotten is Rachel Carson, who is indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of poor Africans. Carson’s radical environmentalist manifesto, “Silent Spring”, led to a complete ban on
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SIERRA magazine's lifestyle editor and editor of the Sierra Club's Green Life blog.
It's a quiet film, one that asks us to set aside our hunger for over-dramatic portrayals of human conflict; watching it feels like a meditation of sorts. During the
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Huffington Post
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Earth Day is as good a time as any to contemplate the concept of the "first environmentalist." Of course, the potential candidates vary widely based on the observer's perceptions but a common choice is Rachel Carson. Sounding a toxic wake-up with the
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Planet Green
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Rachel Carson's question, "Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the Earth without making it unfit for all life?," remains as relevant today as when she wrote it in "Silent Spring" 47 years ago.
With
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Rachel Mair received the first-ever Rachel Carson Award for Scientific Excellence for the culture and propagation of endangered freshwater mussels.
Blacksburg, Va. -- Rachel Mair of Virginia Beach, a graduate student in Virginia Tech's College
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EurekAlert
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Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published in 1962. Within a decade, the pesticide DDT was banned.
Carson's descriptions of the pesticide's effect on birds struck a chord with readers. People don't take kindly to killing large numbers of wild
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Columbus Dispatch
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/04/19/sci_rissing19.ART_ART_04-19-09_G8_SLDJARH.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101
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Mother Earth. Mother Nature. When it comes to environmentalism, mothers have always had good branding. And for good reason. Besides the obvious life-sustaining qualities inherent to motherhood, mothers are often responsible for instilling environmental
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The Daily Green
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/hog-prnts-synd?src=rss
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SILVER SPRING, Md. (WUSA)-This Saturday, April 18 the Montgomery County Department of Parks will be hosting fun-filled special events, park volunteers and more. Below are brief updates:
- Rachel Carson Greenway Hikes: Montgomery Parks is hosting three
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Attention all hikers! Long-distance hikers I should say. On Saturday June 20th of 2009, get ready to participate in the thirteenth annual Rachel Carson Trail Challenge. Although I love to hike, I can't say that I have been a consistent hiker my entire
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Associated Content
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In conjunction with Earth Day, San Jacinto College will present a screening of the film A Sense of Wonder from 1-2:30 p.m. April 22. The free event, which is open to the public, will be held at the Charles Grant Fine Arts Building, located on the
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Houston Chronicle
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Carson, Rachel Louise, 1907–64, American writer and marine biologist, b. Springdale, Pa., M.A. Johns Hopkins, 1932. Her well-known books on sea life—Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea around Us (1951), and The Edge of the Sea (1954)—combine keen
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HARRISBURG, Pa., March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Rachel Carson Building has earned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's prestigious Energy Star rating, becoming the first state-owned building in Pennsylvania to receive the national symbol
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DAYTON — A free screening of "A Sense of Wonder," a documentary-style film that portrays pioneering environmental activist Rachel Carson in the final year of her life, will take place tonight, March 24, at 7 p.m. at the Boonshoft Museum.
The special
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Dayton Daily News
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Rachel Carson by Una Hanbury. Image courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery.
For the past sixteen years, actress Kaiulani Lee has been performing her one-woman show A Sense of Wonder that depicts the final months of environmentalist Rachel Carson.
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Smithsonian Magazine
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March is National Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating by sharing a lady we admire each weekday.
Rachel Carson was quite a woman. She pioneered the position that humans are a part of nature and that their quality of life is impacted by ecology.
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The Frisky
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rachel carson wrote in 1962 silent spring, the indescriminate spraying of ddt in the late 1950s / early 1960s caused an ecological disaster unforseen and denied by the scientists who created ddt. should this not be a lesson to remember, once bitten twice shy ? so many analogies to the recent chem spraying, losss of fish, grounding dolphins & whales, bats and birds dying in unprecedented amounts, tree species and flora sucumbing to new unknown diseases, oaks, beech and chestnut among some of ...
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Nearly a third of the nation’s 800 bird species are endangered, threatened or in significant decline due to habitat loss, invasive species, and other threats, according to the first ever
comprehensive report on bird populations in the United
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Sustainable Business
http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/index.cfm/go/news.display/id/17850
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The Rachel Carson Homestead Association will finally own the homestead it operates.
Springdale council on Wednesday agreed to convey the Rachel Carson Homestead property along Marion Avenue to the association.
Borough officials said the move will put
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Pittsburgh Entertainment
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We salute the contributions of American women as we celebrate Women's History Month in March.
The topic of womens history was largely absent from the public consciousness before the 1970s. So the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California)
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The News-Press
http://www.news-press.com/article/20090319/NEWS0103/90319037/1005/ACC
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TORONTO and LOS ANGELES, March 18 /PRNewswire/ - Canwest's Original Canadian Series pilot THE DEALERSHIP has signed on Tricia Helfer and William Devane, along with up and comer Patrick J. Adams to star in the new one-hour pilot about love, larceny and
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HARRISBURG, Pa., March 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A live, 24-hour Web-cast of two Peregrine falcons who nest on a ledge on Pennsylvania's Rachel Carson State Office Building in Harrisburg resumed for the season today.
"The popularity and notoriety
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I suppose it is not so very important that everyone know who Rachel Carson is, but it is very important to know and to understand her messages. Those who have heard of her generally link her to chemicals, their use in our environment, in our food
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The Asheville Citizen-Times
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200990312039&source=rss
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WELLS — The town of Wells currently has four environmental educators from the Maine Conservation Corps serving as AmeriCorps members with local organizations. The Maine Conservation Corps places AmeriCorps volunteers throughout Maine to complete
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SeacoastOnline.com
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090312-NEWS-903120368
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A Sense of Wonder, a film depicting scientist and author
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Carey Roberts
This is Women's History Month. So put down the party favors for a moment as I recount how the First Family is celebrating this festive occasion, an event that is poised to surpass even Kwanzaa in its historical and cultural
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Renew America
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/roberts/090308
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WASHINGTON, DC -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 03/03/09 --
The new film "A Sense of Wonder" depicts
scientist and author Rachel Carson in the last year of her life as she
battles cancer and the chemical industry in the wake of publishing "Silent
Spring." Carson's
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Street Insider
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Dominick Sim, as Alexander Graham Bell, adjusts an itchy beard during a second-grade living “wax museum” at Pine Grove
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TampaBay.com | St. Petersburg Times
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The legacy of writer, marine biologist and environmental pioneer Rachel Carson will be the focus of a panel discussion hosted by the Palm Beach County Planning Congress next week.
Environmental activist Rosa Durando, chair the Audubon Society of the
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Palm Beach Post
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/local_news/epaper/2009/02/23/0223rosa.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=76
Video of Rachel Carson announcing her Official Website - Highlighted on OfficiallyPluggedin.com
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Washington, D.C. - infoZine - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invites the public to submit creative projects to the 3rd annual Rachel Carson intergenerational “Sense of Wonder” contest. There are four categories: photography, essay, poetry and
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Kansas City Infozine
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(Washington, D.C. – Feb. 11, 2009) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invites the public to submit creative projects to the 3rd annual Rachel Carson intergenerational “Sense of Wonder” contest. There are four categories: photography, essay,
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Distinguished jazz pianist Marian McPartland wrote this composition, A Portrait of Rachel Carson, as a tribute to Carsons pioneering work in environmentalism, particularly her 1962 book Silent Spring , which revealed the dangers of DDT. Working with pianist and arranger Allen Broadbent, the composition grew from a solo piano piece to one with full orchestration. McPartland hosts Marian McPartlands Piano Jazz, which has been broadcast on National Public Radio since 1978. With the Manhattan ...
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1958: Science writer Rachel Carson writes to The New Yorker editor E.B. White suggesting that he write an article about the danger of pesticides. White demurs, but suggests that Carson write the article. It's the genesis of Carson's pioneering book,
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Wired
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A presentation of the 2008 staging of our 34-mile one-day endurance hike on the Rachel Carson Trail near Pittsburgh, PA USA. For details see www.rachelcarsontrails.org
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Rachel Carson Trails Conservancy will have its winter outing from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 7. It will involve a moderately difficult five- to six-mile hike from the Harmony Trail to the Rachel Carson Trail. There will be hot tea, cocoa, and treats
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Pittsburgh Entertainment
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/outdoors/s_608785.html?source=rss&feed=7
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Venture Outdoors will lead a soup of the month hike from, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at Schenley Park. Participants will walk, then sample various soups. Cost is $13.20 for members, $22 for nonmembers. Call 412-255-0564.
Raccoon Creek State Park will
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Pittsburgh Entertainment
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As the 2009 session gets underway, the state's leaders are being asked to respond creatively to the 2008 floods. A Siouxland environmentalist wonders if, when the Iowa Legislature convenes Monday, the governor and legislators will heed the warnings of
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Sioux City Journal
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2009/01/11/news_living/local//ce3bdc5e760115fe862575390074ed15.txt
Music video of "Why" written and performed by Rachel Carson, produced by Rhonda Villanova and Darlene Villanova (Cows R Out Productions) in Ellington, CT
Music video of "Why" written and performed by Rachel Carson, produced by Rhonda Villanova and Darlene Villanova (Cows R Out Productions in Ellington, CT)
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Behind the Shale is a five-part series
exploring urban gas drilling and one Argyle-area neighborhood’s struggle
against it.
For a while, Kim Couch thought her children hadn’t noticed the effect of
the natural gas drilling in their
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Denton Record Chronicle
http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/stories/DRC_Shale_4_1231.22e30664.html
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Carson, Rachel (Louise) (1907–1964), a United States biologist and writer. Silent Spring (1962) warns of the dangers of the indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides. The book provoked controversy and helped to launch widespread interest in the
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