Environmental Leaders

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Gore didn't win an Oscar. Davis Guggenheim did

There is no category for Best Actor or Best Subject in a documentary

I'd like to add Dr. Cal DeWitt at Univ. Wisconsin, who was the first Director of the Au Sable Environmental Institute and has passionately shared about environmental stewardship around the world.

Don't forget Carl Sagan. He was writing books and raising consciousness about greenhouse gasses and the risks of discovering positive feedback loops or tipping points regarding the production of carbine dioxide in the 70's.

What about T B Pickens and all those wonderful wind farms. Wait...haven't been built yet? Ok,,,never mind.

While, I am glad to see that you have mentioned Muir, Leopold, Carter, and others, I am also concerned you did not mentioning Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 ??? October 4, 1946). Pinchot was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905???1910). Pinchot reformed the management and development of forests in the United States and advocated the conservation of the nation's reserves by planned use and renewal. He called it "the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man." Pinchot coined the term conservation ethic as applied to natural resources. Even though he and Muir started as friends and later were on opposite sides of environmentalism, his views were more like Leopold as far as the Idea of man and nature. While Muir saw the great wilderness as something devoid of man Leopold saw man as part of nature and wilderness. I would also like to include David Brower (July 1, 1912 ??? November 5, 2000) on your list. Brower was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club Foundation, the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth (1969), the League of Conservation Voters, Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences. From 1952 to 1969 he served as the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club, and served on its board three times: from 1941-1953; 1983-1988; and 1995-2000. I would also like to include Michael Pollan (born February 6, 1955) is an American professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley,[1] where he is also director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. Pollan???s book In The Omnivore's Dilemma, describes four basic ways that human societies have obtained food: the current industrial system, the big organic operation, the local self-sufficient farm, and the hunter-gatherer. Pollan follows each of these processes from a group of plants photosynthesizing calories, through a series of intermediate stages, and ultimately to a meal. Along the way, he suggests that there is a fundamental tension between the logic of nature and the logic of human industry; that the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world; and that industrial eating obscures crucially important ecological relationships and connections. Pollan???s book is as eye opening as Carson???s Silent Spring. Leopold, Carson, Brower and Pollan are the fathers of the modern environmental movement.

While, I am glad to see that you have mentioned Muir, Leopold, Carter, and others, I am also concerned you did not mentioning Gifford Pinchot (August 11, 1865 ??? October 4, 1946). Pinchot was the first Chief of the United States Forest Service (1905???1910). Pinchot reformed the management and development of forests in the United States and advocated the conservation of the nation's reserves by planned use and renewal. He called it "the art of producing from the forest whatever it can yield for the service of man." Pinchot coined the term conservation ethic as applied to natural resources. Even though he and Muir started as friends and later were on opposite sides of environmentalism, his views were more like Leopold as far as the Idea of man and nature. While Muir saw the great wilderness as something devoid of man Leopold saw man as part of nature and wilderness. I would also like to include David Brower (July 1, 1912 ??? November 5, 2000) on your list. Brower was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club Foundation, the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth (1969), the League of Conservation Voters, Earth Island Institute (1982), North Cascades Conservation Council, and Fate of the Earth Conferences. From 1952 to 1969 he served as the first Executive Director of the Sierra Club, and served on its board three times: from 1941-1953; 1983-1988; and 1995-2000. I would also like to include Michael Pollan (born February 6, 1955) is an American professor of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley,[1] where he is also director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism. Pollan???s book In The Omnivore's Dilemma, describes four basic ways that human societies have obtained food: the current industrial system, the big organic operation, the local self-sufficient farm, and the hunter-gatherer. Pollan follows each of these processes from a group of plants photosynthesizing calories, through a series of intermediate stages, and ultimately to a meal. Along the way, he suggests that there is a fundamental tension between the logic of nature and the logic of human industry; that the way we eat represents our most profound engagement with the natural world; and that industrial eating obscures crucially important ecological relationships and connections. Pollan???s book is as eye opening as Carson???s Silent Spring. Leopold, Carson, Brower and Pollan are the fathers of the modern environmental movement..

AMEN, to redwoman~
The red man was first AMERICA! " Mans heart away from nature, becomes hard" Standing bear......
Too bad the white man didnt have enough pride to listen~~~

Julia@animalrescueteam.net
www.animalrescueteam.net

Thank you for featuring the greatest minds on the ecology of Earth --particulary Aldo Leopold, the father of ecology. He wrote his "seminal treatise" to educate the world about ecology. Sadly, today, ecology is cloaked in secrecy and few comprehend the science. Indeed, how many people realize that ecosystems are all the reasons mankind exists.

I think science has failed mankind by not sharing this vital information with policy-makers and the public.