Tag: Rachel Carson

  • Nation & World

    Only eat organic? You’re paying too much, and it’s not worth it, author says

    An excerpt from “Resetting the Table: Straight Talk about the Food We Grow and Eat” by Robert Paarlberg, associate in the Sustainability Science Program at the Harvard Kennedy School and at Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

    15 minutes
    Vegetables.
  • Nation & World

    The culture of Earth Day

    As Earth Day turns 50, Harvard examines how it brought environmentalism into everyday life.

    8 minutes
    Student in gas mask "smalls" a flower in New York on the first Earth Day.
  • Nation & World

    The urban ocean

    A new course on how oceans are “urbanizing” underscores a decade-long Harvard theme: that cities have to cope with the multiple challenges of water — of there being too much or too little.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Silent Spring,’ 50 years on

    Environmentalists and faculty members gathered at Sanders Theatre to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” which catalyzed the environmental movement in its impassioned presentation of the impact of chemicals on nature.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    America’s Eden that wasn’t

    A new history of science course on the environment moves past the fictions of an unspoiled earlier time of discovery and settlement.

    5 minutes