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Activist Redux: Carrying the Earth First! Torch

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Dave Foreman, Earth First, Earthfirst, Edward Abbey, environmentalism, First!, gang, Greenpeace, monkeywrench, radical, Sea Shepherd

What ever happened to the radical environmental group Earth First!? Are they still out there and are there other radical environmental groups now doing similar work?

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Finding Abbey

E The Environmental Magazine American West, Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey, environmentalism

When the great environmental writer Edward Abbey died in 1989, four of his friends buried him secretly in a hidden desert spot that no one would ever find. The final resting place of the Thoreau of the American West remains unknown and has become part of American folklore. In Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward […]

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New & Noteworthy Green Books

E The Environmental Magazine American West, books, Edward Abbey, killer, off-grid, orca, Seaworld, Wallace Stegner, whale

With spring here and Earth Day fast approaching, there are lots of new books coming out on environmental topics for the readers concerned about green living and sustainability. Here is a sampling… Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different […]