the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth
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the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction
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It is quite natural for the corporate sector to take a lead.' But such initiatives cut little ice with the FoE, which views market environmentalism as an inherently flawed concept.
The case comes from an only moderately deep-pocket picking state (West Virginia), but involves a politically correct cause (environmentalism) with a dream defendant for any contingency-fee plaintiffs' lawyer (Ashland Oil).
Drawing on feminist theory, environmentalism and 'new age' rethinking about the myths and symbols underpinning our spiritual life, she proposes a new agenda for art with an updated version of Vasari's Lives to match.
Many Soviets have embraced environmentalism with ferocity in the past year, as the policy of glasnost, or openness, has allowed citizens to protest the effects of years of industrial development that ignored the ecology.
"I've been imbued with environmentalism for years, but it's in the background of my life now," she says. Ms. Goss teaches contemporary quilting, helping people "to move their work from traditional patterns into new artistic expressions."
Has environmentalism gone too far in America? I have never been a person who admires extremists in any field.
Their motto is "disrupt, delay and defeat," he said, adding that "cloaked in the mantle of environmentalism, they cater to the fears of a community and they play on risks and chemophobia.
Do we need an "environmentalism" industry?
But if Brower good-naturedly concedes some personal inconsistencies, he does so against the backdrop of a stormy half-century of environmentalism in which he tilted with colleagues as fiercely as he fought public apathy.
Greens see him as political opportunist. Antoine Waechter, 44, classic product of 1968 student riots, now heads the Greens and embodies idealistic side of French environmentalism.