ecological problems

The idea for Eco-Pioneers came to Steve Lerner while he was attending the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Although he was moved by the vision of sustainable development evoked by citizens and officials at the summit, as a reporter he felt a need to put a human face on the rhetoric and find out what sustainable development actually looks like in the United States. He spent the next four years searching out what he came to call "eco-pioneers"--the modern pathfinders who are working in the American pragmatic tradition to reduce the pace of environmental degradation.

• conserve water
• earth summit in rio
• eco
• ecological problems
• environmental degradation
• environmental practices
• generate power
• grow food
• hazardous waste
• human face
• pathfinders
• pioneers
• plant species
• pragmatic tradition
• push the limits
• social goals
• steve lerner
• sustainable development
• sustainable future
• visionaries

The Politics of the Earth provides an excellent and accessible introduction to thinking about the environment by looking at the way people use language on environmental issues. John Dryzek analyses the various approaches which have dominated environmental issues over the last three decades, and which are likely to be influential in the future: Survivalism - based on the contention that the earth has a limited stock of resources and prescribes drastic multidimensional action to prevent global disaster, receiving a reply from Promethans who deny such limits exist.

• accessible introduction
• discourses
• earth
• ecological democracy
• ecological problems
• economic values
• environmental issues
• environmental politics and policy
• environmental problem
• global disaster
• human consciousness
• industrial society
• multidimensional
• radicalism
• reply
• rise and fall
• strengths and weaknesses
• survivalism
• three decades
• tractable