Planet Savers : 301 Extraordinary Environmentalists

Name: Planet Savers:301 Extraordinary Environmentalists
ISBN: 9781351280327

doi:10.4324/9781351280327

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ABSTRACT

Protecting the planet is everyone's work. But we all have our own heroes in whatever area we are working. Planet Savers brings together the varied stories of the hundreds of movers and shakers that have spoken up throughout history and taken action to defend the world from pollution, deforestation, species loss and climate change.

From Theodore Roosevelt to Al Gore; from Francis of Assisi to David Attenborough – and from hundreds more men and women that you will know little, if anything, about. Scientists, artists, business people, priests, lawyers, poets, politicians, activists and more, from every continent of the world. Their work has enthused us about the natural world and warned us that we must do much more to preserve it. The Indian woman who became the world's first environmental martyr; the Baptist Reverend who asked "What Would Jesus Drive?"; the Quaker big game hunter who set up the first conservation organisation; the Shakespearian actor who revolutionised organic gardening; and the housewife whose campaign against toxic waste forced a President to act.

The book is a cornucopia of people who from time immemorial have put their careers, reputations and lives on the line to protect our planet from its governing inhabitants – the human race. Today, as thousands of species of animals and plants are faced with extinction, thousands of years of indigenous knowledge is lost in the face of technological advance, and we become more and more aware of the potential doomsday scenario of a warming world, we need Planet Savers more than ever.

Our inspiration can be the 301 environmental lives portrayed in this book. These people cared enough to do something about it. Planet Savers is both a tribute and a catalyst: a tribute to the people that loved the planet enough to want to act to save it, and a catalyst for the people who will be inspired to act after reading it. New Planet Savers are at work right now in rainforests and megacities; in community centres and boardrooms; at road protests and in courtrooms, all over the world. If this book has one great aim it is to inspire you, the reader, to join them. It is a book that every home should own.

Planet Savers

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |298 pages

The Planet Savers

entry c. 533 BC|1 pages

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

entry 312 BC|1 pages

Appius Claudius Caecus

entry 1224|2 pages

St Francis of Assisi

entry 1661|2 pages

John Evelyn

entry 1682|1 pages

William Penn

entry 1730|1 pages

Amrita Devi

entry 1735|1 pages

Carl Linnaeus

entry 1749|1 pages

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

entry 1767|1 pages

Pierre Poivre

entry 1789|1 pages

Gilbert White

entry 1797|2 pages

John Chapman

entry 1798|2 pages

Thomas Malthus

entry 1799|2 pages

Alexander von Humboldt

entry 1820|1 pages

John James Audubon

entry 1827|1 pages

Henry Doulton

entry 1832|1 pages

George Catlin

entry 1842|1 pages

Joseph Paxton

entry 1851|1 pages

Hugh Cleghorn

entry 1854|2 pages

Chief Seattle

entry 1854|2 pages

Henry David Thoreau

entry 1858|2 pages

Frederick Law Olmsted

entry 1859|2 pages

Charles Darwin

entry 1864|2 pages

George Perkins Marsh

entry 1868|2 pages

Joseph Bazalgette

entry 1872|2 pages

John Ericsson

entry 1872|2 pages

Julius Sterling Morton

entry 1876|2 pages

Ellen Swallow Richards

entry 1876|2 pages

George Bird Grinnell

entry 1883|2 pages

William Morris

entry 1888|1 pages

Ernst Rudorff

entry 1889|2 pages

Mrs Phillips and Mrs Williamson

entry 1891|2 pages

Poul la Cour; Johannes Juul

entry 1892|2 pages

John Muir

entry 1895|2 pages

John Burroughs

entry 1895|2 pages

Octavia Hill; Robert Hunter; Hardwicke Rawnsley

entry 1898|2 pages

Gifford Pinchot

entry 1899|1 pages

Flihu Stewart

entry 1899|2 pages