Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes write by Gomercindo Rodrigues. This book was released on 2009-03-06. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A close associate of Chico Mendes, Gomercindo Rodrigues witnessed the struggle between Brazil's rubber tappers and local ranchers—a struggle that led to the murder of Mendes. Rodrigues's memoir of his years with Mendes has never before been translated into English from the Portuguese. Now, Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes makes this important work available to new audiences, capturing the events and trends that shaped the lives of both men and the fragile system of public security and justice within which they lived and worked. In a rare primary account of the celebrated labor organizer, Rodrigues chronicles Mendes's innovative proposals as the Amazon faced wholesale deforestation. As a labor unionist and an environmentalist, Mendes believed that rain forests could be preserved without ruining the lives of workers, and that destroying forests to make way for cattle pastures threatened humanity in the long run. Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes also brings to light the unexplained and uninvestigated events surrounding Mendes's murder. Although many historians have written about the plantation systems of nineteenth-century Brazil, few eyewitnesses have captured the rich rural history of the twentieth century with such an intricate knowledge of history and folklore as Rodrigues.
Fight for the Forest
Fight for the Forest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fight for the Forest write by Chico Mendes. This book was released on 1989. Fight for the Forest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Fight for the Forest, Chico Mendes talks of his life's work in his last major interview.
A History of Environmentalism
A History of Environmentalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of Environmentalism write by Marco Armiero. This book was released on 2014-07-31. A History of Environmentalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Think globally, act locally' has become a call to environmentalist mobilization, proposing a closer connection between global concerns, local issues and individual responsibility. A History of Environmentalism explores this dialectic relationship, with ten contributors from a range of disciplines providing a history of environmentalism which frames global themes and narrates local stories. Each of the chapters in this volume addresses specific struggles in the history of environmental movements, for example over national parks, species protection, forests, waste, contamination, nuclear energy and expropriation. A diverse range of environments and environmental actors are covered, including the communities in the Amazonian Forest, the antelope in Tibet, atomic power plants in Europe and oil and politics in the Niger Delta. The chapters demonstrate how these conflicts make visible the intricate connections between local and global, the body and the environment, and power and nature. A History of Environmentalism tells us much about transformations of cultural perceptions and ways of production and consuming, as well as ecological and social changes. More than offering an exhaustive picture of the entire environmentalist movement, A History of Environmentalism highlights the importance of the experience of environmentalism within local communities. It offers a worldwide and polyphonic perspective, making it key reading for students and scholars of global and environmental history and political ecology.
Chico Mendes
Chico Mendes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chico Mendes write by Alexa Murphy. This book was released on 2013. Chico Mendes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The life of Chico Mendes is the story of a humble rubber tapper who became an international hero because of his work to save the rain forest and improve the lives of those who have made a living caring for and working on it for.
Nature's Allies
Nature's Allies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature's Allies write by Larry Nielsen. This book was released on 2017-02-02. Nature's Allies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It's easy to feel powerless in the face of big environmental challenges--but we need inspiration now more than ever. In Nature's Allies, Larry Nielsen presents the inspiring stories of eight conservation pioneers who show that through passion and perseverance we can each make a difference, even in the face of political opposition. Nielsen's vivid biographies of John Muir, Ding Darling, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, Chico Mendes, Billy Frank Jr., Wangari Maathai, and Gro Harlem Brundtland are meant to rally a new generation of conservationists to follow in their footsteps and inspire students, conservationists, and nature lovers to speak up for nature and prove that individuals can affect positive change in the world.
