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Earthshakers: The Top 100 Green Campaigners of All Time
"To help celebrate its tenth anniversary, a panel of experts listed its 100 greatest eco-heroes of all time. And it does mean all time: St Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is there, as is Siddartha Gautama Buddha, who died in 483BC."
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A few controversial picks such as Lovelock (#5), Browne (#85) and Bellamy (#18). UK and European biased but that's the sample base. Father Christmas (#100) made the list for carbon-free delivery services.
Green Party notables on the list include Jonathan Porritt (#3), Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai (#6), Petra Kelly (#45), Caroline Lucas, MEP (#56), and Rudolph Bahro (#69). These are particularly interesting to note considering on-going discussion regarding the relevance of Green Party politics in some parts of the world.
Democrat Al Gore (#9) and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger (#29) also the list as mainstream US political party representatives. (Hummer fanatic Schwarzenegger higher than Petra Kelly? Hmmm... Must be the hydrogen Hummer spin and solar initiatives along with youthful voters effect.)
Fritjof Capra (#15) and Charlene Spretnak (#65) were co-authors for a pioneering and very influential (in the USA at least) book on the Green Party called "Green Politics" (1984). Spretnak was active in early Green political organizing in the US and has recently written an essay on the subject for the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Politics-Capra/dp/0525242317
http://www.ghi-dc.org/conferences/greenparties04.html
http://www.ghi-dc.org/bulletinF04/35.179.pdf
Porritt also wrote a early book on this topic called "Seeing Green: The Politics of Ecology Explained" (1985) where, among other things, he noted an interesting minimum criteria for being "green".
http://tinyurl.com/yjqshd
http://tinyurl.com/y9bvwk
Kelly, Maathai and Bahro have also written books that would be of interest to Greens (or greens). Kelly and Bahro died some time ago so their books may only be available via used outlets. Lucas has many an essay available on-line. Use Wikipedia, Google, Amazon, Powells, etc. for details.
Helen Caldicott seems a curious miss from the list. I'd probably want Leopold Kohr ("The Breakdown of Nations"), Kirkpatrick Sale ("Human Scale" and "Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision"), K. William Kapp ("Social Costs of Private Enterprise") and Diane Wilson ("An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas") on my own top 100 list.
"To help celebrate its tenth anniversary, a panel of experts listed its 100 greatest eco-heroes of all time. And it does mean all time: St Francis of Assisi (1182-1226) is there, as is Siddartha Gautama Buddha, who died in 483BC."
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A few controversial picks such as Lovelock (#5), Browne (#85) and Bellamy (#18). UK and European biased but that's the sample base. Father Christmas (#100) made the list for carbon-free delivery services.
Green Party notables on the list include Jonathan Porritt (#3), Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai (#6), Petra Kelly (#45), Caroline Lucas, MEP (#56), and Rudolph Bahro (#69). These are particularly interesting to note considering on-going discussion regarding the relevance of Green Party politics in some parts of the world.
Democrat Al Gore (#9) and Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger (#29) also the list as mainstream US political party representatives. (Hummer fanatic Schwarzenegger higher than Petra Kelly? Hmmm... Must be the hydrogen Hummer spin and solar initiatives along with youthful voters effect.)
Fritjof Capra (#15) and Charlene Spretnak (#65) were co-authors for a pioneering and very influential (in the USA at least) book on the Green Party called "Green Politics" (1984). Spretnak was active in early Green political organizing in the US and has recently written an essay on the subject for the Heinrich Böll Foundation.
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Politics-Capra/dp/0525242317
http://www.ghi-dc.org/conferences/greenparties04.html
http://www.ghi-dc.org/bulletinF04/35.179.pdf
Porritt also wrote a early book on this topic called "Seeing Green: The Politics of Ecology Explained" (1985) where, among other things, he noted an interesting minimum criteria for being "green".
http://tinyurl.com/yjqshd
http://tinyurl.com/y9bvwk
Kelly, Maathai and Bahro have also written books that would be of interest to Greens (or greens). Kelly and Bahro died some time ago so their books may only be available via used outlets. Lucas has many an essay available on-line. Use Wikipedia, Google, Amazon, Powells, etc. for details.
Helen Caldicott seems a curious miss from the list. I'd probably want Leopold Kohr ("The Breakdown of Nations"), Kirkpatrick Sale ("Human Scale" and "Dwellers in the Land: The Bioregional Vision"), K. William Kapp ("Social Costs of Private Enterprise") and Diane Wilson ("An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas") on my own top 100 list.
