2012
The term Choice Point indicates a place of branching, a point of possibility. The point of transformation. This remarkable, new documentary points the way to mankind's Choice Point, the ...
74 min
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“The Sea Around Us” and “The Edge of the Sea” might not have the polemical force of “Silent Spring.” They share with it, though, the sense that life on earth is too complicated, and too strange, to be knowable and predictable.
If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.
Originally published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world.
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.
In his monumental bestsellers, The Closing Circle and Science and Survival, Barry Commoner was one of the first scientists to alert us to the hideous environmental costs of our technological development.
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As the oil and gas pipeline boom crosses the United States and Canada, more Indigenous women have disappeared.
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Chronicles is a major work, a collection of current, pressing and inspirational stories of Indigenous communities from the Canadian subarctic to the heart of Dine Bii Kaya, Navajo Nation.
The indigenous imperative to honor nature is undermined by federal laws approving resource extraction through mining and drilling. Formal protections exist for Native American religious expression, but not for the places and natural resources integral to ceremonies.
Haymarket Books proudly brings back into print Winona LaDuke's seminal work of Native resistance to oppression.
Petra Brussee interviews M.S.W. Mona Polacca representing the International Council of 13 indigenous grandmothers at the multi-stakeholder dialogue on water in the post-2015 agenda in the Peace Palace in The Hague, The Netherlands. 21 March 2012.