ENV100H1 Study Guide - A Sand County Almanac, Henry David Thoreau, W. B. Yeats

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Stephen Scharper

Document Summary

Author of silent spring published by houghton mifflin, imagined a spring without bird"s song. These chemicals are not pesticides, but biocides . Pesticides, pollution of the environment, ban of ddt, effects on birds and humans. Community based environmental and city thinker, who lived in ny and prevented some highways from emerging in manhattan, then moved to toronto. She talked about the importance of cities having dynamism and concentrated life force and density as key to the vitality of a city, along with integrity of natural spaces. Screech owls along with a lot of other wildlife have permanent habitats in cities because of urban planning (plan for biotic communities, not only human) Author of walden (simple living), jail for resisting taxes, Try to find a way through industrial revolution, find non-human meaning in human world. Concern for people who are enslaved, and a way of living a life of true meaning; not leading lives of quiet desperation.