7 Inspiring Quotes by Aldo Leopold
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Born on Jan. 11, 1887, Aldo Leopold, an influential American scientist and conservationist and the author of “A Sand County Almanac” (more than 2 million copies of which have been sold since it...
5 Ways to Maximize Your Ecological Conscience
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Profound ecologist and writer, Aldo Leopold, once said: “One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.”
If you have ever studied the way the sun...
Words of Wilderness: A Love Letter to the Wild
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Happy 50th Wilderness Act - In 50 years how you have grown: From Nine to 110 million acres.
Cinematography by Pete McBride, Matt Hobbs and Cael Jones. Words by Edward Abbey, Aldo Leopold, Ralph...
What the Deer Are Telling Us - Issue 23: Dominoes
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In 1909, a United States Forest Service officer named Aldo Leopold shot a mother wolf from a perch of rimrock in the Apache National Forest in Arizona. It was a revelatory moment in the life of the young naturalist. “In those days we never heard of passing up a chance to kill a wolf,” Leopold wrote in an essay called “Thinking Like a Mountain,” later included in his Sand County Almanac, published posthumously after his death in 1948 and which went on to sell several million copies. “We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain.” Leopold, who today is revered among ecologists, was among the earliest observers of the (...)
What the Deer Are Telling Us - Issue 101: In Our Nature
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In 1909, a United States Forest Service officer named Aldo Leopold shot a mother wolf from a perch of rimrock in the Apache National Forest in Arizona. It was a revelatory moment in the life of the young naturalist. “In those days we never heard of passing up a chance to kill a wolf,” Leopold wrote in an essay called “Thinking Like a Mountain,” later included in his Sand County Almanac, published posthumously after his death in 1948 and which went on to sell several million copies. “We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain.” Leopold, who today is revered among ecologists, was among the earliest observers of the (...)
What the Deer Are Telling Us - Issue 11: Light
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In 1909, a United States Forest Service officer named Aldo Leopold shot a mother wolf from a perch of rimrock in the Apache National Forest in Arizona. It was a revelatory moment in the life of the young naturalist. “In those days we never heard of passing up a chance to kill a wolf,” Leopold wrote in an essay called “Thinking Like a Mountain,” later included in his Sand County Almanac, published posthumously after his death in 1948 and which went on to sell several million copies. “We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain.” Leopold, who today is revered among ecologists, was among the earliest observers of the (...)
Le phénomène des #lanceurs_d’alerte témoigne de la maladie de la #démocratie - Reporterre
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La philosophe Catherine Larrère rappelait récemment qu’être écologiste, avait d’abord été d’être lanceur d’alerte, tels Aldo Léopold ou Rachel Carson. Le rôle des lanceurs d’alerte reste toujours aussi important, qu’il s’agisse de l’énergie nucléaire, des OGM (organismes génétiquement modifiés), du gaz de schiste, des perturbateurs endocriniens ou des ondes électromagnétiques.
Mais leur reconnaissance par la société politique est toujours aussi difficile, comme l’a montré le colloque organisé, mardi 17 décembre, par la Fondation Sciences citoyennes, sur le thème « Alerte, expertise et démocratie ».
Pour Michèle Rivasi, qui est passée de l’expertise indépendante avec la CRIIRAD (Commissionde recherche et d’information indépendantes sur la radioactivité) au jeu institutionnel avec EELV (Europe Ecologie Les Verts) dont elle est députée européenne, le problème tient à la « gadgétisation » des processus de concertation publique :
« On organise des grandes conférences citoyennes pour l’aide à la décision, mais… la conclusion est prête avant même les #débats. C’était le cas avec la commission nationale de débat public sur les EPR, comme avec celle sur les déchets radioactifs. A chaque fois, on instrumentalise les processus participatifs. La seule commission qui ait réellement pris en compte l’avis citoyen est celle qui concernait les lignes haut-tension dans les gorges du Verdon… et à la fin, le projet a été annulé ».
Des outils de concertation existent, comme le #référendum, facilement utilisable à l’échelle municipale. Mais « les politiques ont peur du débat public, de ce qu’il peut faire advenir. Alors ils prennent la décision en amont. Les rencontres entre partenaires ne sont que du ‘blabla’. On a un vrai souci dans les neurones de la #gouvernance de la politique française ».