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This timely volume showcases the work of twenty-two young environmental activists and highlights their contributions to a diversified and growing movement to stop civilization's headlong course towards global warming, peak oil and species extinction. Chapters discuss all aspects of environmental organizing from political and media campaigns to non-violent direct action, and the activists featured represent movements from around the world. Each autobiographical entry includes black and white photographs and contact information for the activists is provided. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Peter Hammarstedt and Benjamin Potts of Sea Shepherd fame and costars of television's Whale Wars. Enei Begaye, a Navajo/Diné activist bringing green jobs to the reservation. Rob Stewart, award-winning filmmaker of Sharkwater. Jamie Henn, cofounder of 350.org. Wen Bo, founder of China's Greenpeace. Tanya Fields, an urban farmer and poor people's activist in New York City. Meet the 21st century ecoactivists who are devoting themselves to saving our planet. The Next EcoWarriors features the stories of 22 of these emerging leaders and their heroic work in a variety of green revolutions.Emily Hunter, daughter of Greenpeace cofounders Robert and Bobbi Hunter, introduces us to the feisty and diverse global community of young people who are tackling issues of energy use, overfishing, overconsumption, waste management, the disappearance of indigenous cultures and rainforest, and other urgent environmental/social concerns with a sense of passion and possibility.Together their message is clear: anyone can be an ecowarrior if they use their talents for change.
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