Kate Davies

The Power List

29 September, 2011 | Kate Davies

10 ways activists have changed the world and how you can too.

Since roman plebeians rose up against their masters in the fifth century BCE, social movements have been the most important force for advancing progressive change. They work because ordinary people – like you and me – are the ultimate source of power in any society: People in positions of economic, political or social power rule only with the consent – explicit or implicit – of ordinary citizens. When we exercise our collective muscle, change happens.

In Review: Toxic Whodunnit

13 April, 2011 | Kate Davies

Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment, Sandra Steingraber, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press, 2010 (second edition), 440 pages.

Searching for what caused the blad- der cancer that struck her at age 20, biologist Sandra Steingraber uncovered a history of environmental contamina- tion in Tazewell County, Illinois, where she grew up. The cancer cluster she doc- umented there formed the basis of her 1997 book Living Downstream, which proposed a link between toxic chemicals in the environment and cancer. Readers of that book will find she has thoroughly updated this new edition. Her analysis has also matured. Steingraber has become more thoughtful and reflective.

Published in: EcoBooks 37.3

Sustainable Minds

12 August, 2010 | Kate Davies

A radical transformation of education would develop an ecologically literate society – one that understands the principles of ecological systems and uses them to design human systems.

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