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"Environmentalism Unbound is a powerful reinterpretation of environmentalism and a trenchant critique of established environmental organizations and the environmental justice movement. Filled with historical insight and practical wisdom, the book serves as a road map for revitalizing America's most important social movements, bringing urban issues, industrial development, the hazards of work, and efforts to achieve livable communities to the center of the debate about society's relation to the natural world. A tough, profoundly inspiring, and optimistic book."
—Carl Anthony, Urban Habitat Program and the San Francisco Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development
"Environmentalism Unbound is cogent and visionary."
— Chip Ward, Washington Post
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In Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it from vital issues of everyday life, such as workplace safety, healthy communities, and food security, that are often viewed separately as industrial, community, or agricultural concerns. This fragmented approach prevents an awareness of how these issues are also environmental issues. After tracing a history of environmental perspectives on land and resources, city and countryside, and work and industry, Gottlieb focuses on three compelling examples of this new approach to social and environmental change. The first involves a small industry (dry cleaning) and the debate over pollution prevention approaches; the second involves a set of products (janitorial cleaning supplies) that may be hazardous to workers; and the third explores the obstacles and opportunities presented by community or regional approaches to food supply in the face of an increasingly globalized food system.
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"Environmentalism Unbound is a powerful reinterpretation of environmentalism and a trenchant critique of established environmental organizations and the environmental justice movement. Filled with historical insight and practical wisdom, the book serves as a road map for revitalizing America's most important social movements, bringing urban issues, industrial development, the hazards of work, and efforts to achieve livable communities to the center of the debate about society's relation to the natural world. A tough, profoundly inspiring, and optimistic book."
—Carl Anthony, Urban Habitat Program and the San Francisco Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Development
"Environmentalism Unbound is cogent and visionary."
— Chip Ward, Washington Post
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In Environmentalism Unbound, Robert Gottlieb proposes a new strategy for social and environmental change that involves reframing and linking the movements for environmental justice and pollution prevention. According to Gottlieb, the environmental movement's narrow conception of environment has isolated it from vital issues of everyday life, such as workplace safety, healthy communities, and food security, that are often viewed separately as industrial, community, or agricultural concerns. This fragmented approach prevents an awareness of how these issues are also environmental issues. After tracing a history of environmental perspectives on land and resources, city and countryside, and work and industry, Gottlieb focuses on three compelling examples of this new approach to social and environmental change. The first involves a small industry (dry cleaning) and the debate over pollution prevention approaches; the second involves a set of products (janitorial cleaning supplies) that may be hazardous to workers; and the third explores the obstacles and opportunities presented by community or regional approaches to food supply in the face of an increasingly globalized food system.
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Environmentalism today can be characterized as a set of skilled organizational actors, fundraising apparatuses, effective though often outgunned lobbyists, and highly motivated, even passionate groups of individuals seeking to save some environmental amenity or overcome some environmentally destructive practice or action. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
alternative food regime, perc use, garment care industry, preferable cleaning products, new food movements, pollution prevention outcome, antitoxics groups, emergency food system, food security groups, food systems analysis, pollution prevention advocates, salad bar option, community food security, environmental policy system, urban core communities, food systems approach, contract cleaning companies, janitorial workforce, environmental justice perspective, environmental justice groups, industrial ecology approach, pollution prevention alternative, gene giants, wage restructuring, regional planning movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, United States, World War, New York, Progressive Era, New Deal, Santa Monica, Clean Air Act, Sierra Club, Earth Day, Seeds of Change, Big Three, Richard Simon, Third World, Community Food Security Coalition, Forest Service, One Source, Pollution Prevention Act, Fox River Valley, Pueblo Nuevo, Alice Hamilton, Common Sense Initiative, Dow Chemical, Hazard Communication Standard, Joan Gussow New!
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Environmentalism today can be characterized as a set of skilled organizational actors, fundraising apparatuses, effective though often outgunned lobbyists, and highly motivated, even passionate groups of individuals seeking to save some environmental amenity or overcome some environmentally destructive practice or action. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
alternative food regime, perc use, garment care industry, preferable cleaning products, new food movements, pollution prevention outcome, antitoxics groups, emergency food system, food security groups, food systems analysis, pollution prevention advocates, salad bar option, community food security, environmental policy system, urban core communities, food systems approach, contract cleaning companies, janitorial workforce, environmental justice perspective, environmental justice groups, industrial ecology approach, pollution prevention alternative, gene giants, wage restructuring, regional planning movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Los Angeles, United States, World War, New York, Progressive Era, New Deal, Santa Monica, Clean Air Act, Sierra Club, Earth Day, Seeds of Change, Big Three, Richard Simon, Third World, Community Food Security Coalition, Forest Service, One Source, Pollution Prevention Act, Fox River Valley, Pueblo Nuevo, Alice Hamilton, Common Sense Initiative, Dow Chemical, Hazard Communication Standard, Joan Gussow New!
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- Final report (CCS occasional paper ; no. 6) by Speyside Project in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Sustainable Food Systems by Dietrich Knorr in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Radical Agriculture (1976 Harper Colophon Paperback) by Richard Merrill in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Henry Ford (People We Should Know) by Jonatha A. Brown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Organizing the Landscape: Geographical Perspectives on Labor Unionism by Andrew Herod in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Chicago (Urban and Industrial Environments) by David Naguib Pellow in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Forcing the Spring: The Transformation of the American Environmental Movement by Robert Gottlieb in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Power, Justice, and the Environment: A Critical Appraisal of the Environmental Justice Movement (Urban and Industrial Environments) by David Naguib Pellow in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Uneasy Alchemy: Citizens and Experts in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor Disputes (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Barbara L. Allen in Front Matter
- Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Steve Lerner in Back Matter
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