For her time, Mira Lloyd Dock was an exceptional woman: a university-trained botanist, lecturer, women’s club leader, activist in the City Beautiful movement, and public official—the first woman to ...be appointed to Pennsylvania’s state government. In her twelve years on the Pennsylvania Forest Commission, she allied with the likes of J. T. Rothrock, Gifford Pinchot, and Dietrich Brandeis to help bring about a new era in American forestry. She was also an integral force in founding and fostering the Pennsylvania State Forest Academy in Mont Alto, which produced generations of Pennsylvania foresters before becoming Penn State Mont Alto campus. Though much has been written about her male counterparts, Mira Lloyd Dock and the Progressive Era Conservation Movement is the first book dedicated to Mira Lloyd Dock and her work. Susan Rimby weaves these layers of Dock’s story together with the greater historic context of the era to create a vivid and accessible picture of Progressive Era conservation in the eastern United States, and Dock’s important role and legacy in that movement.
This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date biographies of Chris Hani, Wangari Maathai, Josie Mpama/Palmer, and Ken Saro-Wiwa. The volume complements history, social justice, and ...political science courses and is a useful collection for general readers interested in learning about Africa's most influential historical figures.
He was an Austrian immigrant; she came from Tasmania. He grew up beside the Carinthian Alps; she climbed mountains when few women dared. Their honeymoon glimpse of Cradle Mountain lit an urge that ...filled their waking hours. Others might have kept this splendour to themselves, but Gustav Weindorfer and Kate Cowle sensed the significance of a place they sought to share with the world. When they stood on the peak in the heat of January 1910, they imagined a national park for all. Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story traces the achievements of these unconventional adventurers and their fight to preserve the wilderness where they pioneered eco-tourism. Neither lived to see their vision fully realised: the World Heritage listed landscape is now visited by 250,000 people each year. Award-winning journalist Kate Legge tells the remarkable story behind the creation of the Cradle Mountain sanctuary through the characters at its heart.
Wangari Muta Maathai was a scholar-activist known for founding
the Green Belt Movement, an environmental campaign that earned her
the Nobel Peace Prize. While many studies of Maathai highlight her
...activism, few examine Maathai as a scholar whose contributions to
various disciplines and causes spanned more than three decades.
In Radical Utu: Critical Ideas and Ideals of Wangari Muta
Maathai , Besi Brillian Muhonja presents the words and works of
Maathai as theoretical concepts attesting to her contributions to
gender equality, democratic spaces, economic equity and global
governance, and indigenous African languages and knowledges.
Muhonja's well-rounded portrait of Maathai's ideas offers a
corrective to the one-dimensional characterization of Maathai
typical of other works.
Wangari Muta Maathai is one of Africa's most celebrated female
activists. Originally trained as a scientist in Kenya and abroad,
Professor Maathai returned to her home country of Kenya with a
renewed ...political consciousness. There, she began her long career
as an activist, campaigning for environmental and social justice
while speaking out against government corruption. In 2004, Maathai
was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership of the Green
Belt Movement, a conservation effort that resulted in the
restoration of African forests decimated during the colonial
era.
In this biography, Tabitha Kanogo follows Wangari Maathai from
her modest, rural Kenyan upbringing to her rise as a national
figure campaigning for environmental and ecological conservation,
sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality,
and the eradication of poverty until her death in 2011.
Boots, Bikes, and Bombers presents an intimate oral
history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and
outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women's
Airforce ...Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military surplus
airplane to Alaska in 1946. Settling in Fairbanks, she went on to
co-found Camp Denali, Alaska's first wilderness ecotourism lodge;
helped start the Alaska Conservation Society, the state's first
environmental organization; and applied her love of the outdoors to
her work as a backcountry guide and an advocate for trail
construction and preservation. An innovative and collaborative life
history, Boots, Bikes, and Bombers , incorporates the story
of friendship between the author and subject. The resulting book is
a valuable contribution to the history of Alaska as well as a
testament to the joys of living a life full of passion and
adventure.
