Ecolivia

Eco-O

Women Earth-Eco Scientists and Artists to Watch

The Writing of 'Silent Spring'

Olivia, eco-O: My dad is an environmental activist in Clearwater, Florida with me. Many years ago in Santa Fe, New Mexico in the early 1990's he helped start the Bioneers and established its publishing division. The Bioneers network has been going for over 25 years now, has an annual conference in California with many environmental leaders attending from around the world, and they have published many books. Over all this time, my dad has often said "it's all connected" in nature and that this motto was one of the very first sayings that the Bioneers adopted.

Rachel Carson too saw the "interconnected nature of the universe" and this essential idea is one we should remember as we look at and study nature's diversity and apply science to our observations.

My mother grew up in Florida, surrounded by lakes, many animals and mosquitoes, and has told stories about how she would run with her friends behind the DDT trucks that would spray clouds of gas to kill the mosquitoes. The kids didn't know that DDT had many harmful effects on life, beyond the insects. It took Rachel to point this out.

● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Ddt-spray-kids-in-florida.jpg

Now many years later, Rachel Carson's life and legacy stays with us as a reminder of how we all can make a difference by studying, learning, and acting on our beliefs.

● In 1962 — "Silent Spring", Rachel's book "ignited a conservation movement and awakened the modern environmental consciousness..."

A strong, courageous woman and scientist and writer who was a poet with words remains with us always.

As she was dying she wrote to a friend:

● "You do know, I think, how deeply I believe in the importance of what I am doing. Knowing what I do, there would be no future peace for me if I kept silent... It is, in the deepest sense, a privilege as well as a duty to have the opportunity to speak out — to many thousands of people — on something so important."

Rachel Carson, "American Experience - 2016

PBS Preview

Rachel Carson: Visionary

Rachel Carson's Silent Sprint (documentary - 1993)

Silent Spring by Meryl Streep

https://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies/rachel-carson/

https://www.fws.gov/refuge/rachel_carson/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt (see DDT)

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Jill Pelto's watercolors illustrate the strange beauty of climate change data

Courtesy of Mother Nature Network

November 8, 2016

For more about Jillian's art -- https://www.etsy.com/shop/GlaciogenicArt / http://www.jillpelto.com/gallery/

(Photo: Jill Pelto)

'Landscape of Change' was painted using data about sea level rise, glacier volume decline, increasing global temperatures and rise in fossil fuel usage.

(Photo: Jill Pelto)

Decline of Glacier Mass Balance

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Majory Stoneman Douglas' Voice in the Dawning of Environmental Consciousness

"There must be progress, certainly. But we must ask ourselves what kind of progress we want, and what price we want to pay for it. If, in the name of progress, we want to destroy everything beautiful in our world, and contaminate the air we breathe, and the water we drink, then we are in trouble." - Majory Stoneman Douglas

Majory Stoneman Douglas, one of the nations most significant environmentalists during the 20th century, steadfastly defended the Florida Everglades in an effort to prevent efforts by real estate and agricultural developers to repurpose the land by draining the swamp. The Everglades are truly a unique treasure of our nation, teeming with wildlife found nowhere else on the planet.

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“With every breath we take”

The Smithsonian Museum online also sees the small little ones effect on the big picture...

http://ocean.si.edu/ocean-news/every-breath-you-take-thank-ocean

http://ocean.si.edu/sites/default/files/styles/blog_header/public/photos/02%20Giant%20Kelp%20aquadiver.jpg

"Tiny Blue-Green"

www.tinybluegreen.com

● A new website and discovery project by Olivia Schmidt with assistance from Steven Schmidt, GreenPolicy siterunner

We begin looking more closely and carefully at the oceans of the world, blue-green life, oxygen and 'sustainable' connections to our "thin blue" atmosphere - www.thinbluelayer.com

Sea Trees

We look at 'floating ocean forests' considering connections between oceans and atmosphere-oxygen-climate, food-chains and fisheries, science and sustainability policies...

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"Science is just beginning to study the role of 'the tiny little ones' in the oceans"

Blue-Green Connection to Life on Earth

● "A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean ('Prochlorococcus') produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"

~ The Fate of Small Species and the Oceans -- Sylvia Earle

The Wondrous World of Dr. Sylvia Earle

"The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One"

● "I see things that others do not..." 'Mission Blue' (preview)

~ Saving the Oceans ○ 'Mission Blue-2' ○ Sylvia Earle - video

"The Tiny Little Ones - Plankton"

"Ecosystems of the Sea"

Nearly all marine plants are single celled, photosynthetic plankton-algae

Marine plants produce over 50% percent of the oxygen in the atmosphere

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Not Pac-Man, It's Algae

A Game of a Living, Breathing Earth

Subject Matter:

Living Volvox algae releasing its daughter colonies

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Algae_release_-nikon-small-world-competition-2017-winners.jpg

Removing Carbon, Adding Oxygen: Plankton's Role is Critically Important

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Phytoplankton.jpg

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Plankton.jpg

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Eco-Science

Young Women Becoming Scientists & Changing the World !

Let's look at Rachel Ignotofsky and her art, research and books ! -- https://www.rachelignotofskydesign.com/

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Women_in_Science_Ignotofsky.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Women_in_Science_Fearless_Pioneers_Who_Changed_the_World.png

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And Always Remembering Our Dreamers & Visionaries

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