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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frome, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmentalism.

Conservation of natural resources.

Environmental protection.

Physical Description:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2002]

Contents:

Take the Bull by the Tail and Get a Toehold 6

Where I Came In 12

Recreation

A Substitute for Conservation? 21

Talking to the Rangers 29

Insects and Weeds Need Friends 39

Prejudice, Predators, and Politics 60

Protecting the Public Options 66

It's Tough Enough to Make a Living, but Tougher to Say Something That Counts 81

Twentieth Anniversary of the Wilderness Act

Still in Pursuit of the Promised Land 84

Wildlife and Man in the Adirondacks: Past, Present, and Future 96

Could My Words Possibly Make Any Difference? 105

For Love of the Beautiful Counts Most 108

Why Must We Save the Forest from Foresters? 113

Speaking, Teaching, and Raising a Little Hell in Academia 117

A Curriculum for Wilderness Leadership 129

Everything Changes with Crowds and Jingling Cash Registers 138

Preserving the Endangered Principle 145

Wildlife History, with Ecological Perceptions 150

We Need a U.S. Wilderness Service 155

Replacing Old Illusions with New Realities 165

Water Is More than a Commodity 173

Little Wonder Managers Keep Their Heads Down and Duck 180

Objectivity Is Not the Answer

but Advocacy Journalism Makes the Difference 188

Media and the Environment: Passion, Politics, and Empowerment 195

Media as the Messenger 201

Why Downsizing instead of Upsizing? 220

For Students with Daring Dreams 228

Parks Are Better without the Pork 232

No More "Sacrifice Areas," Please 240

I Prayed to Rise above Paradigms, Postulates, Phenomenology, and Epistemology 246

Forty and Fifty Years Ago They Were Missionaries 250

Keeping the Faith and Friends 261

I Must Be Still to Hear and See 268

One More for the Road 273.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1572331771

OCLC:

49511671