Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring catalogues the environmental impact of the indiscriminate use of DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) in the US and questions the logic of releasing large amounts of chemicals into the environment without fully understanding their effects on ecology or human…

<p><span class="deck"><em><span class="typestyle">Walden</span></em> is here, of course; but so too is Fanny Farmer’s first cookbook.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> You Asked for It</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">You’ve likely never heard of her.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Skirmishing about environmentalism may well continue forever, but the major war is over. It lasted far longer than most people realize.</span></p>

<p>She helped launch the environmental movement and pioneered the idea of the ecology of the human body.</p>