Eco Amazons: 20 Women Who Are Transforming the World

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Eco Amazons: 20 Women Who Are Transforming the World

by Dorka Keehn (Goodreads Author), Colin Finlay, Julia Butterfly Hill

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It’s a fact: individuals have the power to change the world.And in an age of rampant environmental devastation,nothing is as vital as saving our planet and the health ofits inhabitants. Eco Amazons brings together the womenleading the charge to create a sustainable future. Theyare individuals at the forefront of the global preservationmovement, making a noticeable differe...more It’s a fact: individuals have the power to change the world. And in an age of rampant environmental devastation, nothing is as vital as saving our planet and the health of its inhabitants. Eco Amazons brings together the women leading the charge to create a sustainable future. They are individuals at the forefront of the global preservation movement, making a noticeable difference in all of our lives. Through intimate interviews conducted by journalist Dorka Keehn and arresting images by award-winning photographer Colin Finlay, Eco Amazons chronicles and illuminates the critical environmental issues of our time and shows how concern leads to passion, and how passion leads to action that can be emulated by all.

While many of the leaders of the modern environmental movement have consistently been women, most of their names, struggles, and successes have yet to achieve national recognition. A generation ago, conservation held the spotlight; but because of these women, the beam is now shining equally on health and urban issues like clean air and safe drinking water. As the movement has expanded, women continue to spearhead change in new areas of environmental focus such as art, design, economics, and food production.

With a forward by Julia Butterfly Hill—the internationally known activist who lived in a redwood tree affectionately know as “Luna” for 738 days—this seminal book brings to light the stories and lives of 20 American women making a difference. These eco-warriors include Majora Carter, who founded the environmental justice organization Sustainable South Bronx, which includes one of the nation’s first urban-farm training programs; Agnes Denes, a pioneer of the ecological art movement; Julia Bonds, a coal miner’s daughter and the director of Coal River Mountain Watch in the Appalachian Mountains who is fighting the highly destructive mining practice known as “mountaintop removal”; and Alice Waters, the chef and owner of the award-wining restaurant Chez Panisse, who has championed farmer’s markets and organic products.(less)

Hardcover, 144 pages

Published May 10th 2011 by powerHouse Books (first published May 9th 2011)

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Nov 15, 2012 Falbs rated it 4 of 5 stars

Inspiring stories. Not the kind of book I normally read, but it's got me in a tizzy to make good on many of my ideas about changing the world.

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Very inspiring stories; beautiful pictures; amazing women.

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Dorka is the Chief Muse of KEEHN ON ART. She has recently completed ECO AMAZONS: 20 Women Who Are Transforming the World, the first illustrated book on American women environmentalists with photographs by Colin Finlay, published May 2011 by powerHouse Books. In 2008, she realized with Brian Goggin, The Language of the Birds, a solar powered permanent sculpture commissioned by the San Francisco Art...more

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