Recycle
Environmentalism
An early flyer promoting recycling in Berkeley, California. Prepared by Tom Davis and Tom Regan for the Co-op Recycling Center and distributed by the Consumer Protection Committee of the Consumers Cooperative of Berkeley, Inc.
Tom Davis and Tom Regan
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
May, 1970
leaflet
Earth First!, , vol. XXI, no. VI
Environmentalism
Earth First! was a radical environmentalist organization established in the southwestern United States in 1980. The group, whose slogan was, "no compromise in defense of mother earth," was associated with "Deep Ecology" and promoted a biocentric viewpoint, which posited that every life form and every ecosystem has an equal right to exist, regardless of its utility to humans.
Earth First! and the Deep Ecology philosophy shared two core beliefs: 1) that all life evolved in the same way and from the same single-celled organism and thus all life forms are related, and 2) that the biosphere and all its life forms are sacred. Earth First, which grew into a global organization, became most well-known for its eco-militancy. Group members have engaged in"rowdy and well-publicized protests that often have involved civil disobedience, including innovative blockades of logging roads and industry or governmental offices as well as clandestine sabotage operations that increasingly have utilized arson." Some Earth First! members consider themselves anarchists and seek to overthrow all industrial nation-states, but the majority have a less revolutionary goal of achieving legal protection for habitats large enough to ensure the survival of biological diversity.
Earth First!ers have also been influential in developing a powerful eco-spirituality within the broader environmental movement. The group put on a series of "Road Shows" that included artists, music and story-telling that emphasized environmental "conversion" narratives. The spiritual dimensions of Earth First! have also been significantly influenced by buddhism.
Earth First!
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
June 21, 1991
newspaper
Center for Participation Education Catalogue, Spring 1970
NewLeft/Student Movement
The Center for Participation in Education (CPE) was a university supported experimental college at the University of California-Berkeley aimed at empowering students to devise innovative classes that focused on pressing contemporary issues. The CPE was a response to growing activism and pressure for reform on campus. CPE pioneered courses in Black Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Native American Studies, Women's Studies, Environmental Studies, etc. Founded in 1967 from a broader administrative mandate to the Board of Educational Development at UC-Berkeley to initiate and approve experimental courses “for which neither departmental or college support is appropriate or feasible,” by 1969, administrative support had been fatally curtailed.
This catalogue from the Spring of 1970 illustrates the dire straights the program found itself in and lists the classes available that term.
Center for Participant Education
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1969
catalogue
Nothing for the Sake of the Earth
Environmentalism
An early ecology pamphlet.
Earth/Life Defense
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
Rehearsal for the Apocalypse
Environmentalism
An early ecology pamphlet
Earth/Life Defense
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
Basic Ecology Bibliography
Environmentalism
This leaflet is a selection of readings available for purchasing through the mail by the Ecology Center Bookstore in Berkeley, California. The titles center on the environmental movement and include works such as The Subversive Science, The Affluent Society, and America the Raped.
Ecology Center Bookstore
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
mimeograph
leaflet
ca. 1970s
Smokey the Bear Sutra
Environmentalism
This leaflet satirizes the popular image of Smokey the Bear, created by the Advertising Council in 1944, in a sutra, Buddhist-style text. Addressing the ecological crisis of the late-1960s and 1970s, this leaflet suggests the displacement of individualized responsibility for environmental preservation.
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Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
mimeograph
en-US
leaflet
ca. 1960s and 1970s
The Politics of Ecology
Environmentalism
This is a reprint of an ecology article, “The Politics of Ecology,” by Barry Weisberg, from the January 1970 issue of Liberation. The article offers an insight into the emerging environmental politics of the early-1970s.
author, Barry Weisberg, published by Liberation
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
January 1970
photocopy
Roots: A Radical Ecological Perspective
Environmentalism
This booklet includes the poetry, essays, and manifesto of the Ecology Action East, a radical environmentalist group founded in 1969. Committed to inciting awareness of the modern ecological crisis, the Ecology Action East underlines the impact of the technological age and deindustrialization on the global environment. Adopting a communistic approach to environmental activism, this booklet contextualizes the ecological crisis within major contemporary themes such as labor relations, global population growth, imperialism, and systemic inequality in public health.
Ecology Action East
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
ca. early-1970s
leaflet
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