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> #RachelCarson's Silent Spring in 1962, preceded by a derived series of articles in the New Yorker, temporarily broke the chemical industry's command over the flow of information on pesticides and other chemicals. There had been critical articles and letters of protest over the broadscale use of DDT and other poisons, but these were only occasional and hardly disturbed the industry's informational hegemony.
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This is a close up of a new painting that I just finished. These are the eyes of Rachel Carson, a wonderful woman and the mother of the global environmental movement in the past century. She wrote the famous book "Silent Spring" that is still relevant today.
She said: 'So nature does indeed need protection from man; but man, too, needs protection from his own acts, for he is part of the living world. His war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. His heedless and destructive acts enter into the vast cycles of the earth, and in time return to him'.
#art #portrait #painting #fearlesswomen #rachelcarson #nature #environment #woman #artist
She said: 'So nature does indeed need protection from man; but man, too, needs protection from his own acts, for he is part of the living world. His war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. His heedless and destructive acts enter into the vast cycles of the earth, and in time return to him'.
#art #portrait #painting #fearlesswomen #rachelcarson #nature #environment #woman #artist
u-lo as fadas?
O mundo dun pequeno é fresco, novo, fermoso, está cheo
de sorpresa e entusiasmo. É unha desgraza que, na maioría de
nós, esa visión lúcida, ese instinto natural que temos polo que
é fermoso e impresionante, se debilite ou mesmo se perda antes
de chegarmos á idade adulta. Se tivese cuña coa fada que supostamente está encargada de abeizoar todas as crianzas, pediríalle
que escollese de agasallo para cada unha delas un sentido do
abraio tan indestrutible que lles durase toda a vida, como un
antídoto infalible contra o aborrecemento e o desencanto que
han vir cos anos, contra a preocupación estéril por cousas que
son artificiais, contra a alienación das orixes da nosa fortaleza.
Working on my next print for the #PrinterSolstice2526 prompt subtraction- a scientist who brought the world’s attention to what was missing where there had been indiscriminate pesticide use, and DDT in particular. Award-winning science writer and marine biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964) wasn’t the first to try to sound the alarm about unintended consequences, harm to wildlife, 🧵
#linocut #printmaking #wip #portrait #scientist #RachelCarson #ecology #marineBiology #histsci #womenInSTEM #birds
How to Bioluminesce: Artist Ash Eliza Williams’s Reveries of Wonder
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/12/26/ash-eliza-williams-art/
🌱Rachel Carson cambió el rumbo de la humanidad.
🌱Gracias a su trabajo se tomó conciencia del peligro que hay detrás de los pesticidas y se prohibió el DDT.
🌱En Blogsostenible le dedicamos este artículo:
https://blogsostenible.wordpress.com/2021/01/14/rachel-carson-primavera-silenciosa-pesticidas-biodiversidad/
🌱No te pierdas las palabras de Edwin Way Teale.
🌱Fuente de las fotos: El libro de la ecología, editorial Akal, 2019.
#RachelCarson #PrimaveraSilenciosa #EEUU #EdwinWayTeale #Naturalista #Biodiversidad #Tierra #CrisisAmbiental #CrisisClimática #Contaminación #DestrucciónDeHábitats #Ecología #LibroRecomendado #Pesticidas #Insecticidas #Biocidas #Sostenibilidad #Medioambiente
Sometimes the world only feels motionless because we’ve stopped noticing it.
Rachel Carson reminds us to look again — to see a familiar place as if we’re seeing it for the first time.
That small shift in perspective can reveal the subtle movement already carrying us forward.
#LookAgain #FreshEyes #RachelCarson #EverydayBeauty #AttentionIsTransformative #SeeingWhatsMoving
September 27, 1962
Rachel Carson's book indicting the pesticide industry, Silent Spring, was published.
The scientist (17 years with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) and writer demonstrated the connection between the excessive and ubiquitous use of DDT and its long-term effect on plants and animals.
The impact of her book proved seminal to a new ecological awareness. But even 30 years later, Carson was denounced for “preservationist hysteria” and “bad science.” But she had said when the book was published: "We do not ask that all chemicals be abandoned. We ask moderation. We ask the use of other methods less harmful to our environment."
Today in Labor History September 27, 1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published, ushering in the modern environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #rachelcarson #Silentspring #environment #ecology #activism #books #writer #author #nonfiction @bookstadon
At its 63rd birthday Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" is going as strong as ever. Here a little celebration. #RachelCarson #SilentSpring #ecology #toxicology #scienceWriting https://manywordsandnumbers.org/2025/09/12/in-praise-of-rachel-carsons-silent-spring/
#ScarboroughLandTrust acquires 130 acres to expand #conservation area
The 130-acre addition to #SilverBrookPreserve expands contiguous conserved lands.
Dana Richie, July 30, 2025
"The Scarborough Land Trust is expanding its green footprint in Western Scarborough with the addition of a 130-acre parcel to the Silver Brook Preserve at 65 Hanson Road.
"This is a sizable boost to the preserve that was previously made up of a 19-acre parcel purchased in 2001 and an 18-acre parcel purchased in 2024. And it expands the contiguous block of conserved land in the area to 943 acres, 600 of which are within the SLT’s stewardship.
" 'It really rounds out 25 years of conservation efforts,' said Christine Labaree, president of the land trust’s board of directors.
"The Silver Brook Preserve is home to a variety of wildlife including wild brook trout, spotted turtles, deer, bobcats, bats and maybe even a black bear or two.
And the land directly abuts #BroadturnFarm, a 434-acre parcel under the SLT’s stewardship complete with a working farm and wooded trails — the spot where Andrew Mackie, executive director of the land trust, and Labaree met on a hot and sticky afternoon.
"While walking along the #MapleSugarTrail by the edge of an open field full of tall grasses speckled with trees, Mackie said that the Silver Brook Preserve is across the tree line in the distance. Plunging deeper in the woods, past a still brook surrounded by a canopy of green, he pointed to a tree that bore a sign for the Stonewall Loop, a 1-mile trail in the Western corner of the property.
"Mackie explained that the land trust plans to extend that loop into the Silver Lake Preserve property, adding about 2 miles of trails and parking onto the new parcel within the next two years.
"Right now, the Silver Brook Preserve is open to the public for activities like hiking, skiing, snowshoeing, wildlife observation, hunting and fishing, and Mackie said that the land trust is still figuring out a lot of the policies for the preserve, like whether dogs will be required to be leashed.
"Western Scarborough isn’t the only area in town where the land trust is working to 'seed and grow' its conserved areas. There are 500 acres of contiguous conserved land in Pleasant Hill, made up of the 187-acre #PleasantHillPreserve and 300-acre #RachelCarsonNationalWildlifeRefuge. And #WarrenWoods, which was originally 162 acres in 2012, is now 313 acres, with plans in the works to connect trails to The Downs.
" 'The goal is that every neighborhood in Scarborough has opportunities to have access to open land,' Labaree said. The land trust is working with the town to achieve its goal of '30 by 30' — to preserve 30% of its land by 2030. According to Labaree, the town is currently at 23%.
"And Mackie said that these larger land parcels are more attractive in the long term because they are more ecologically sustainable, provide varying habitats for #wildlife and are easier to maintain."
Archived version:
https://archive.md/qaDNC
#SolarPunkSunday #WildlifeCorridor #WaterIsLife #SaveTheMarshes #SaveTheFarms #Maine #SouthernMaine #LandTrust #BlueCarbon #SaveTheWetlands #SaltMarshes #ScarboroughMarsh #WebOfLife #Wetlands #SaveTheForests
#PreserveNature #LandConservation #LandForMainesFuture #SpendTimeInNature #RachelCarson
Dismantling of EPA’s Scientific Research Arm Fulfills Key Chemical Industry Goal
#trump #fascism #antiscience #chemicalindustry #toxics #environmentalracism #environmentaljustice #rachelcarson #climatejustice #ScienceforthePeople
I’ve been consuming too much news and not learning enough. Now that I visited the library, I have reading to do. My new library still uses date due stamps! The This is Love podcast inspired one pick. #library #memoir #nonfiction #environment #kareemabduljabbar #rachelcarson #thisislove
Ce mois-ci j’ai lu pas mal d’essais pour le boulot et j’ai eu vraiment 4 coups de cœur dont j’avais envie de vous parler brièvement le temps de deux posts. On commence avec deux titres d’écologie.
Mon préféré fut Plutôt couler en beauté que flotter sans grâce de Corinne Morel Darleux chez Libertalia. Partant du récit de Bernard Moitessier qui refusa de finir une course en bateau qu’il s’apprêtait à remporter, l’autrice nous parle du refus de parvenir, c’est-à-dire refuser les conditions de réussite prônées par nos sociétés pour définir les nôtres, plus en adéquation avec nos valeurs et notamment le respect de la nature. Inspirant, vivifiant, beau, et étonnamment apaisant, ce court essai invite à repenser notre façon d’être à l’heure de l’effondrement écologique. Corinne Morel Darleux nous invite, non pas à baisser les bras, mais à agir, pour rester dignes au présent, et tout tenter même quand les indices sont au rouge et que le monde plonge dans l’absurdité.
J’ai aussi lu Printemps silencieux de Rachel Carson chez Wildproject. Dans cet ouvrage, Rachel Carson explique avec clarté, faits expliqués à l’appui, la dangerosité des pesticides sur la faune, la flore, la stérilité des sols mais aussi sur la santé humaine... dans un texte écrit en 1962. Cette publication de ce texte si juste est un constat terrifiant de ce que nous savions et pour lequel rien ou presque n’a été fait. L’écho avec l’actualité est évidemment troublant. Mais c’est aussi un texte essentiel qui dénonce et rend accessible ces données pour s’en emparer à nouveau aujourd’hui et espérer changer les choses pour que le printemps prochain ne soit pas totalement silencieux.
#blog #critique #critiquelitteraire #bookreview #book #books #livre #lecture #pixelbook #essai #écologie #libertalia #wildproject #printempssilencieux #rachelcarson #plutôtcoulerenbeauté #corinnemoreldarleux
Mon préféré fut Plutôt couler en beauté que flotter sans grâce de Corinne Morel Darleux chez Libertalia. Partant du récit de Bernard Moitessier qui refusa de finir une course en bateau qu’il s’apprêtait à remporter, l’autrice nous parle du refus de parvenir, c’est-à-dire refuser les conditions de réussite prônées par nos sociétés pour définir les nôtres, plus en adéquation avec nos valeurs et notamment le respect de la nature. Inspirant, vivifiant, beau, et étonnamment apaisant, ce court essai invite à repenser notre façon d’être à l’heure de l’effondrement écologique. Corinne Morel Darleux nous invite, non pas à baisser les bras, mais à agir, pour rester dignes au présent, et tout tenter même quand les indices sont au rouge et que le monde plonge dans l’absurdité.
J’ai aussi lu Printemps silencieux de Rachel Carson chez Wildproject. Dans cet ouvrage, Rachel Carson explique avec clarté, faits expliqués à l’appui, la dangerosité des pesticides sur la faune, la flore, la stérilité des sols mais aussi sur la santé humaine... dans un texte écrit en 1962. Cette publication de ce texte si juste est un constat terrifiant de ce que nous savions et pour lequel rien ou presque n’a été fait. L’écho avec l’actualité est évidemment troublant. Mais c’est aussi un texte essentiel qui dénonce et rend accessible ces données pour s’en emparer à nouveau aujourd’hui et espérer changer les choses pour que le printemps prochain ne soit pas totalement silencieux.
#blog #critique #critiquelitteraire #bookreview #book #books #livre #lecture #pixelbook #essai #écologie #libertalia #wildproject #printempssilencieux #rachelcarson #plutôtcoulerenbeauté #corinnemoreldarleux
https://www.zdf.de/play/dokus/zdf-info-100/der-bio-boom-100-jahre-oekologische-landwirtschaft-102
"Um 1924 entsteht die Biolandwirtschaft als Antwort auf den Einsatz von Chemie, als eine Rückbesinnung auf alte Anbautechniken. Die Bedeutung der Tiere, der Böden, der Düngung und des Umgangs mit der #Natur wird über ein Jahrhundert hinweg auf darauf spezialisierten Biohöfen beibehalten. Ob beim Biobauern im direkten Verkauf oder in Biosupermärkten: Kundinnen und Kunden sind Klimaschutz, Tierwohl und gesunde #Ernährung beim Einkauf wichtig."
#pestizide #ddt #glyphosat #silentSpring #RachelCarson #organic #bio #landwirtschaft #egge #essen #humus #regenerativeLandwirtschaft
Today, @jhembrow and I took part in the Extinction Rebellion protest against pesticide use, especially the extra high level of usage for growing flowers.
Why do we still have to do this, 63 years after "Silent Spring" was published ?
#xr #bollenteelt #extinctionrebellion #drenthe #assen #silentspring #rachelcarson @xrdrenthe
"Parents often have a sense of inadequacy when confronted on the one hand with the eager, sensitive mind of a child and on the other with a world of complex physical nature, inhabited by a life so various and unfamiliar that
it seems hopeless to reduce it to order and knowledge. In a mood of self-defeat, they exclaim,
“How can I possibly teach my child about nature--why, I don’t even know one bird from another!”
- #RachelCarson
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