Product Description: Shades of Green examines the impact of political, economic, religious, and scientific institutions on environmental activism around the world. The book highlights the diversity of national, regional and international environmental activism, showing that the term "environmentalism" covers an entire range of perceptions, values and interests...read more

Discusses the history of environmentalism in the United States, including background on such groups as the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, the Nature Conservancy, Environmental Action, and a variety of anti-nuclear organizations.

Product Description: Green History traces the development of ecological writing through history and forms a broad critical review of green ideas and movements reinforcing the importance of environmental concern and action in our own time. Animal rights, ecology as science, feminism, green fascism/socialism/anarchism, land reform, peaceful protest, industrialization, ancient ecology, evolution, grassroots activism, philosophical holism, recycling, Taoism, demographics, utopias, sustainability, spiritualism ...read more

Provides information about the history and purpose of such environmental groups as the Sierra Club, the Nature Conservancy, Greenpeace, and Kids for Saving Earth