A project of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Penguin Classics
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
            --Rachel Carson
Thoreau's Legacy: American Stories about Global Warming
AN ONLINE ANTHOLOGY

Examples

Two scientists and one of the nation's most respected nature photographers have contributed representative works to the project to serve as examples of the kind of essays and photographs we are seeking.

Essays

Richard Baker

One Acre at a Time, an essay by scientist Richard G. Baker, about restoring a personal patch of prairie in Iowa to the way nature meant it to be.


Dunes near Lake Michigan

The Last of the Carnivores, an essay by scientist Gabriel Filippelli, about the threat to a rare ecosystem off Lake Michigan that supports carnivorous plants.


Photo

Mount Hood

Mount Hood, a photograph by award-winning nature photographer Gary Braasch showing the shrinking snowpack and glaciers on Oregon's highest peak.
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