The reception of Silent Spring: an introduction / Craig Waddell -- Chemical fallout: Silent Spring, radioactive fallout, and the environmental movement / Ralph H. Lutts -- An inventional archaeology ...
This Day In History: Apollo 13 safely returns to earth following a previous lanuch that turned to disaster, April 17 ...
pt. I.A legacy of activism and advocacy -- One patriot / Terry Tempest Williams -- Rachel Carson's scientific and ocean legacies / Jane Lubchenco -- Rachel Carson and George J. Wallace : why public ...
—Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (p. 297) The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 is widely regarded as one of the major events that launched the modern environmental movement. Silent ...
It’s been more than half a century since the publication of Silent Spring by the scientist and creative writer Rachel Carson. The seminal volume caught the attention of U.S. presidents, artists and ...
In 1962, a former marine biologist published a book that would alter the way millions of Americans, and eventually people around the world, understood humanity’s relationship with nature. The book ...