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1. The power list: 10 ways activists have changed the world and how you can too

Author

Davies, Kate

Subjects
Environmental movement -- Methods -- Management, Environmentalists -- Practice, Company business management, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

SINCE ROMAN PLEBEIANS rose up against their masters in the fifth century BCE, social movements have been the most important force for advancing progressive change. They work because ordinary people [...]

Published
2011

2. Sustainable minds: the next step in human evolution must take environmental learning from schools to the realities of society

Author

Davies, Kate

Subjects
Canada -- Educational aspects -- Environmental aspects, Environmental education, Environmental sustainability -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects, Environmental protection -- Educational aspects, Environmental issue, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

HUMAN EVOLUTION has always depended on the ability of communities and groups to learn. In prehistoric times, bands of early hominids survived by learning how to work together to find [...]

Published
2010

3. Toxic Whodunnit

Author

Davies, Kate

Subjects
Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment (Nonfiction work) -- Steingraber, Sandra -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Abstract

Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, Sandra Steingraber, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2010 (second edition), 440 pages. Searching for what caused the bladder cancer [...]

Published
2011

4. Nature knows best

Author

Davies, Kate

Subjects
Thinking Ecologically: Environmental Thought, Values and Policy (Book)
Abstract

Thinking Ecologically: Environmental Thought, Values and Policy, Bruce Morito, Halifax: Fernwood, 2002 In these lacklustre days of Canadian environmental policy, it is refreshing to come across an innovative perspective that […]

Published
2003

5. Toxic exposures: contested illnesses and the environmental health movement

Author

Davies, Kate

Subjects
Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement (Nonfiction work) -- Book reviews, Books -- Book reviews
Abstract

Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses and the Environmental Health Movement, Phil Brown. Citizen activism, argues Brown, is the single most important ingredient in effective advocacy on toxic exposures. He examines the […]

Published
2009

6. Knowing your place. (Saving Place)

Author

Davies, Kate

Subjects
Environmental health -- Tests, problems and exercises, Local history -- Tests, problems and exercises, Community -- Tests, problems and exercises
Abstract

Want to get to know your home better? Then this is the quiz for you. If you can answer all these questions, you deserve a prize for awareness of your […]

Published
2002

7. The Power List.

Author

Davies, Kate

Subjects
*ENVIRONMENTALISTS, *GREEN movement, *ENVIRONMENTAL activism, *ENVIRONMENTALISM, *SOCIAL movements
Abstract

The article presents the ways that environmental activists have changed the world and how people can do it too. It mentions that imagining a better world is an inspirational vision that have always helped humankind cope with life's difficulties and disappointments. Moreover, harnessing people power is a successful social movement as it had strong support from ordinary people willing to protest on the streets.

Published
2011

8. Sustainable Minds.

Author

Davies, Kate

Subjects
*SUSTAINABILITY, *ENVIRONMENTAL education, *ENVIRONMENTALISM, *ENVIRONMENTAL literacy, *ENVIRONMENTAL sociology
Abstract

The article discusses sustainability literacy and environmental education. It notes on the importance of environmental education and states that it helps in building up an ecologically literate society that understands the principles of ecological systems. It provides six strategies for the enhancement of the ecological literacy of learning society which include creating learning communities, embracing diversity and learning from experience.

Published
2010

9. Great Lakes drinking water: risky refreshment

Author

Davies, Kate

Subjects
Water quality management -- Research, Drinking water -- Contamination, Carcinogens -- Research, Water pollution -- Environmental aspects, Epidemiological research -- Analysis, Environmental issues, Social sciences
Published
1986

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