Rachel Carson (posthumous 1980 Presidential Medal of Freedom)
Silent Spring at 40 Rachel Carson’s classic is not aging well. By Ronald Bailey (from Reason Online ("the monthly print magazine of “free minds and free markets.” It covers politics, culture, and ideas through a provocative mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews. Reason provides a refreshing alternative to right-wing and left-wing opinion magazines by making a principled case for liberty and individual choice in all areas of human activity")Rachel Carson: a scientist alerts the public to the hazards of pesticides
From Annie:
TITLE And no birds sing : rhetorical analyses of Rachel Carson's Silent spring / edited by Craig Waddell IMPRINT Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2000. CALL NO. QH545.P4 C3833 2000. AUTHOR Jensen, Carl. TITLE Stories that changed America : muckrakers of the 20th century IMPRINT New York : Seven Stories Press, c2000. CALL NO. PN4871 .J46 2000. AUTHOR Lear, Linda J., 1940- TITLE Rachel Carson : witness for nature IMPRINT New York : Henry Holt, 1997. CALL NO. QH31.C33 L43 1997.
Two more muckraking books from Annie:
AUTHOR Stauber, John C. (John Clyde), 1953-
TITLE Toxic sludge is good for you : lies, damn lies, and the public
relations industry / by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton.
IMPRINT Monroe, ME : Common Courage Press, c1995.
CALL NO. HD59.6.U6 S72 1995.
AUTHOR Colborn, Theo.
TITLE Our stolen future : are we threatening our fertility,
intelligence, and survival?-- a scientific detective story /
Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski, and John Peterson Myers.
IMPRINT New York : Dutton, 1996.
CALL NO. RA1224.2 .C65 1996.
Natural Resources Defense Council on pesticides
JSTOR search "silent spring" and Science 1996- search "silent spring"
Another from Annie:
AUTHOR Graham, Frank, 1925- TITLE Since Silent spring. IMPRINT Boston, Houghton-Mifflin, 1970. CALL NO. QH75 .G68.
TAKING A STAND: Ecologists on a Mission to Save the World (Jocelyn Kaiser Science Volume 287, Number 5456, Issue of 18 Feb 2000, pp. 1188-1192. cited by Intervening in evolution: Ethics and actions Paul R. Ehrlich PNAS May 8, 2001 | vol. 98 | no. 10 | 5477-5480)
review of Rachel Carson. Witness for Nature (LINDA LEAR 1997) Science Volume 278, Number 5345, Issue of 12 Dec 1997, p. 1897.
Part1 and Part 2 of "From Silent Spring to Scientific Revolution" from Rachel's Environment & Health News
How about Melvin Oliver, father of "Terminator technology"?
NSF proposalThe USDA’s Willard Phelps explained that the goal is “to increase the value of proprietary seed owned by US seed companies and to open up new markets in second and third world countries.”USDA molecular biologist Melvin J. Oliver, the primary inventor of the technology, explained why the US developed a technology that prohibits farmers from saving seeds: “Our mission is to protect US agriculture and to make us competitive in the face of foreign competition. Without this, there is no way of protecting the patented seed technology.”
a chapter in Handbook of Plant Biotechnology ($650...) on "Male Sterility and Hybrid Production Systems"
see the story behind genetic seed sterility technology (Adam Dimech)
Patent 5,723,765 ("Control of plant gene expression") --see also mentions of that number
Google "terminator technology" (11K+ hits...)
How the Terminator Terminates (Martha Crouch, via Wayback Machine)
Purdue Biotech Experts Say Genetic Plant Sterilization Technology -- Scorned by Environmentalists -- Is Needed (via Wayback Machine)
Monsanto Visionary or Architect of Bioserfdom? A Global Socio-Economic Examination of Genetically Modified Organisms (Andrew Hund 10dec99)