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Ghostworkers and Greens: The Cooperative Campaigns of Farmworkers and Environmentalists for Pesticide Reform
Throughout the twentieth century, despite compelling evidence that some pesticides posed a threat to human and environmental health, growers and the USDA continued to favor agricultural chemicals over cultural and biological forms of pest control. In Ghostworkers and Greens, Adam Tompkins reveals a ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
The Nature of Hope: Grassroots Organizing, Environmental Justice, and Political Change
by Cody Ferguson • Adam Tompkins • Bill McKibben • Brinda Sarathy • Michael Egan • Kyle Powys Whyte • Sophia Cheng • Monica Mariko Embrey • Hugh Fitzsimmons • Paul Hirt • Jill M. Holslin • Anna J. Kim • Charles Laurier • Jeffrey C. Sanders • Adam M. Sowards • Ellen StroudThe Nature of Hope focuses on the dynamics of environmental activism at the local level, examining the environmental and political cultures that emerge in the context of conflict. The book considers how ordinary people have coalesced to demand environmental justice and highlights the powerful role o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018