Eco-Heros: Twelve Tales of Environmental Victory [Paperback]

Aubrey Wallace (Author), David Gancher (Editor), oscar arias (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 19, 1993

Wallace profiles 12 activists from around the world who prove that environmental victories are possible; that they begin within us and can happen in our own backyards. (Environmental Studies)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

These profiles of 12 winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize are inspiring tales of crusades in 10 countries. Wallace, former literary editor of The New Environmental Handbook , provides readable, if not very deep, narratives of their battles for the environment. Kenyan Wangara Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, which is trying to save Africa's deforested lands while empowering ordinary women, who have planted 10 million trees with their own hands. New Zealander Catherine Wallace's efforts to rescue her family farm from mining exploration developed into a fierce passion to preseve Antarctica from depredation. The two Americans profiled are outside the environmentalist mainstream: Sam LaBudde, whose graphic videotapes helped stop the slaughter of dolphins by tuna fishermen, criticizes Washington environmental organizations for their "ethic of compromise"; Love Canal housewife Lois Gibbs, whose protests led her to found the Citizen's Cleaninghouse for Hazardous Wastes, believes that "the average people and the average community can change the world." Gancher edited Not Man Apart. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

The San Francisco Goldman Environmental Foundation annually awards monetary prizes to individuals from each of the continents for "their grassroots efforts to preserve and enhance the environment." Eco-Heroes profiles 12 winners, including Sam LaBudde, a biologist whose secret documentation of the slaughter of dolphins eventually led canners to stop buying tuna caught in dolphin-killing nets. Roland Tiensur, a 12 - year - old Swede, sparked a worldwide student movement by organ izing a bake sale in his village that raised money to buy ten acres of Costa Rican rain forest. Wangari Maathal directed a tree-planting project that has given employment to 50,000 Kenyan women. All libraries will find this inspiring and enlightening book a worthwhile purchase.
- Eva Lautemann, DeKalb Coll. Lib., Clarkston, Ga.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Mercury House (March 19, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562790331
• ISBN-13: 978-1562790332
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,991,206 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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