{"id":23272,"date":"2017-09-12T15:43:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=23272"},"modified":"2018-05-09T13:35:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T12:35:57","slug":"enviro-11th-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=23272","title":{"rendered":"Enviro &#8211; 11th September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&#038;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fenviro-11th-september-2017%2F\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe><strong>Heroes for Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this edition of Enviro:<\/p>\n<p>We referred to an article &#8220;<strong>Passion and Persistence in Nature\u2019s Cause<\/strong>&#8221; in current issue of &#8220;<strong>Resurgence and Ecologist<\/strong>&#8221; sent to Enviro by Philip Fahy one of our regular listeners resident in London. The heroes referred to in that article are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Aldo Leopold<\/strong> (1887-1948) was an author, philosopher, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the\u00a0University of Wisconsin. He wrote a series of essays about his work which was published with the title \u2018a Sand County Almanac\u2019 which became the bible for future conservationists.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rachel Carson<\/strong> (1907\u201464): Rachel Carson\u2019s book \u2018Silent Spring\u2019 drew attention to the consequences of the use of pesticides which if not controlled would lead to the end of birdsong. DDT was the\u2019 Roundup\u2019 of that period.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chico Mendes<\/strong> (1944-88) was a rubber tapper in the Brazilian Amazon who organised a union to protect their rights as part of peaceful resistance to the destruction of the rainforest. He was murdered because of this.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wangari Maathai<\/strong> (1940-2011): When she returned to her locality in Kenya after completing time away and her studies, she found serious forest destruction. To counteract this she set out to organise small groups of women to grow and replant native trees resulting in the planting of 50 million trees. The project was extended to include the Sahel (Sub-Saharan Africa) from Senegal to the Sudan as part of the \u2018Greenbelt\u2019 initiative right across Africa.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gro Harlem Brundtland<\/strong> (1939- ) was Norway\u2019s environment minister and prime minister and chair of the World Commission on environment and Development. She wrote the \u2018Brundtland Report\u2019 and defined sustainability as meeting today\u2019s needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Muir<\/strong> (1838-1914): He is regarded by many as the founding father of US conservationism. He virtually singlehandedly secured the conservation of the wonderful Yosemite National Park. He also was known as &#8220;John of the Mountains&#8221;, was a Scottish-American naturalist, author, environmental philosopher, glaciologist and early advocate for the preservation of wilderness in the United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also\u00a0we referred to the movement \u2018<strong>Deep Ecology<\/strong>\u2019. In 1973, Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer Arne Naess introduced the phrase \u201cdeep ecology\u201d to environmental literature, and he is the person most associated with the movement. Deep Ecology is an environmental movement and philosophy which regards human life as just one of many equal components of the entire global ecosystem. Deep ecology\u2019s ecological and environmental philosophy is based on promoting the inherent worth of non-human living beings regardless of their instrumental utility to human needs, plus a radical restructuring of modern human societies in accordance with such ideas. Most inspirational for John is John Denver who put the theories of environmental conservation, ecology, sustainability, human rights and peace promotion to the fore in his songs reaching a mass audience. John recommended to listeners \u2018The Best of John Denver Live\u2019 and played some of it. Joe Dunne mentioned Ghandi and Jennifer mentioned Henry David Thoreau and Walden Pond where he went to meditate.<\/p>\n<p><em>Presenter Producer: John Haughton:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Panelists<\/i><em>: Joe Dunne, Jennifer Brady.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Guests students Francesca and Gabriella form Italy. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heroes for Nature On this edition of Enviro: We referred to an article &#8220;Passion and Persistence in Nature\u2019s Cause&#8221; in current issue of &#8220;Resurgence and Ecologist&#8221; sent to Enviro by Philip Fahy one of our regular listeners resident in London. The heroes referred to in that article are: Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) was an author, philosopher, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[7815,7817,7811,7819,7812,7017,4412,1723,7820,7813,7816,7814,7818],"class_list":["post-23272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-aldo-leopold","tag-chico-mendes","tag-deep-ecology","tag-gro-harlem-brundtland","tag-heroes-for-nature","tag-jennifer-brady","tag-joe-dunne","tag-john-haughton","tag-john-muir","tag-passion-and-persistence-in-natures-cause","tag-rachel-carson","tag-resurgence-and-ecologist","tag-wangari-maathai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26593,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23272\/revisions\/26593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}