| Guiding Thought Question: Do an internet search of one of the following people to find out more information about them and write up an explanation of why people should know about them in the context of the modern environmentalism movement. In your explanation include their background, what type of work did they do/how did they effect the environmental movement, and a theory on why they are not as well known in the environmentalism discussion. - Mardy Murie - Biologist - Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer - Activist - David Archumbault II - Activist - George Washington Carter - Agricultural Scientist - Majora Carter - Urban Revitalizationist - George Masa - Photographer Today's Learning Objective: Students will examine how the actions of non-politicians can have an effect on the development of governmental policy by examining the work of past and present conservationists. Central Question: What actions can people take to effect change within the government? (1.2.b) |  |
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Naidaly
9/7/2021 02:07:09 pm
Majora Carter- built a legacy; “ a social enterprise pioneer for sustainable communities”. She advocates for a decrease in carbon use, energy cost and an increase on social responsibility and environmental stewardship. She is from South Bronx where there was high rates of crime, pollution, property, environmentally induced health issues. She knew how to resolve this issues and she went for it. She attended Appalachian Energy Summit, this motivated her to start her own consulting firm for first urban green-collar job and greener living. I believe they should be known and included in the environment movement because Carter portrays the possibilities of an individual changing on the behalf of the environment. She symbolizes the difference that can be made once you alternate some perspectives of your own personal life as well as overall daily practices. However they aren’t as recognized in this movement due to probably her main focus at the start being her home town south Bronx. She also partners with Appalachian energy summit, which focus on developing peoples interest in environmental and energy management and services to better the world. Her main focus in her career and in environmentalism is energy, while other environmental advocates look for the bigger picture ignoring people like Carter because of their own specific interest.
Kiera
9/7/2021 02:10:08 pm
George Masa was born in Japan. He came to the U.S to study mining in California in 1901. He soon got a job at a hotel and began taking pictures for the hotel. He had a talent for photography and used it to take pictures of what would soon be the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He also helped make maps for that areas. His photographs were so good that John Rockefeller Jr. donated $5 million to buy the park land. George Masa’s work showed Americans the beauty of national land and showed the importance of preserving it. A theory as to why he is not well known could be that during his lifetime political tensions were rising surrounding racism and the anti-Japanese phase. This could be why there is not much known about him.
Maria
9/7/2021 02:10:27 pm
Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux band Hunkpapa. Her activism started at the young age of thirteen, when she and her community felt threatened by the Dakota Access Pipeline plans. The construction projects threatened the indigenous people’s water sources and sacred burial grounds. Anna Lee Rain Yellowhammer knew that she and others her age must take action. She knew her generation and people would be the most affected by the pipeline. They organized protests on the construction sites and set up spiritual camps to have their voice heard. She also organized a petition to show the support for stopping the pipeline constructed and reached 80,000 signatures. Although the pipeline constructed was still initiated, her work made an impact. As a young, native, woman, she made huge steps in environmental activism. She showed that someone of her status could voice their opinion. This is also why she is not a very well known figure. The world does not want to rely on the young woman of the country to make change.
Chloe
9/7/2021 02:11:43 pm
Mardy Murie was a naturalist, biologist, conservationalist, & writer. As a child, Murie moved to Fairbanks because her stepfather had been appointed an assistant U.S. attorney. She became the first women to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines (which is now UAF) in 1924.
Lauren S
9/8/2021 07:58:43 am
Dr. Letitia Obeng is a scientist from Ghana living and working in Britain since the 1960s. Born January 10, 1925 in Anum, Ghana she is known as the grandmother of female scientists in Ghana. Dr. Obeng graduated college with a bachelor’s in zoology and doctorate in science being the first Ghanaian woman to do so. Her research was on the black fly as it carried diseases such as river blindness. After her schooling Dr. Obeng organized the National Research Institute of Aquatic Biology on Ghana’s Volta Lake water system. Her work earned attention and she was invited to the 1972 UN Human Environment Conference. Dr. Obeng was then recruited to be apart of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) to manage water and soil in the global Environment Program. In 1980 Dr. Obeng became the Africa region director of the UNEP and produced a program of action for the African environment. She was elected the first woman to the Fellowship of Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and was the first female president. While Dr. Obeng was saving the environment she raised her 3 children and passed and to my knowledge is still alive at 96 years old.
Sam
9/8/2021 07:59:55 am
Mary Waihigo Kamau was barely able to make ends meet just a few years ago working in a tea-producing company in central Kenya. She would collect charcoal dust from a local market and pack it into briquettes, which she would then sell. She then signed onto a Rainforest Alliance initiative which encouraged local communities to switch to fuels that are environmentally renewable instead of charcoal and wood. She received training and equipment through the rainforest alliance program, and then was making significantly more briquettes from a better resource.
Peter S
9/8/2021 08:00:05 am
Majora Carter grew up in the South Bronx, New York City, a community devastated financially after white flight in the mid 1900s and burdened with environmental degradation due to landfills, waste treatment plants, and other undesirable utilities being centered in the area. After graduating from Wesleyan University, Carter came back to the Bronx to revitalize the community with the belief that "Environmental justice means that no community should be saddled with more environmental burdens and less environmental benefits than any other.”
Jack Smith
9/8/2021 08:01:40 am
David Archumbault II is a former Standing Rock Indian Reservation chairman who has a degree in Business and Administration. He joined FirstNational HealthCare as the chief consulting officer in 2017. He is an experience individual who has spoke before the UN Human Rights Council, Congress, and has even met Barack Obama! His core focus with his activism has lied with protecting and upholding indigenous people’s rights, especially when it came to the Dakato Pipeline. He was a key player in leading and organizing rallies and protest camps. Archumbault has also been arrested for unintentionally trespassing during a protest l, being charged with disorderly conduct. This attracted media attention through which he could spread history and information about the pipeline resistance movement. In 2016 the pipeline was successfully blocked under Obama on an environmental protection statement, until 2017 when Trump was elected and construction resumed. Despite this, Archumbault has continued to advocate for Native rights across the globe. His message teaches us that one of the best things we can do for our Earth is protect and preserve the land while respecting Natives’ rights and acknowledging their history and capability to care for the land. I suspect while he was somewhat successful in attracting media attention and addressing the worlds highest “courts”, being a Native American with anti-oil/non-renewable views in Dakato has not helped.
Helena
9/8/2021 08:08:41 am
Mardy Murie (Margaret Murie) - An American naturalist, conservationist, and writer. She was the main contributor to the protection of the lands in Alaska, and even established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, also in Alaska.
Ella
9/8/2021 12:39:59 pm
Anna was only 13 when the Dakota pipeline threatened her tribes sacred burial ground and a vital water source. Anna and 30 other people held protests against the pipeline in an effort to get it stopped. Anna also started a petition that had over 80,000 signatures sadly it was not enough to get the pipeline stopped. Anna has deep connections to the river the pipeline would threaten. She remembers playing in the river as a young child with her friends and her grandparents raised livestock along the river. Anna cites that there have been over 300 pipeline spills in the course of one year, likely one would occur along the Dakota pipeline. Anna is likely not well known due to her age and also that she is a member of a minority group fighting a powerful oil company that has the power to silence them.
Cate
9/8/2021 12:45:26 pm
Anna lee rain yellowhammer is important in modern environmentalism because it happened so recently and was a big project. Anna is a member of the native group Hunkpapa in the dakotas. She was 13 when she and 30 other people started a petition to prevent a company access to a pipeline. They said that if the pipeline were to break it would ruin water (drinking water and animal water) and building it would threaten burial grounds. Their petition got over 150000 signatures. To spread her message, Anna ran with a youth group 2000 miles that ended in a rally in DC. Protest camps were set up around the reservation with around 10000 participants. The project was continued anyway and the camps were cleared
Mikaela Tweedy
9/8/2021 12:49:09 pm
Mardy Murie also known as the grandmother of the conservation movement. She married Olaus Murie. They spent their honey moon on a over 500 miles around the upper Koyukuk region by dogsled and boat studying caribou. Her stories are told in her book "Two in the Far North," and in a documentary, "Arctic Dance". She also wrote "Island Between," and "Wapiti Wilderness" which her husband helped co write. She was the first woman to graduate from the Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines she graduated with a degree in business administration. her and her husband worked on a project called the artic national wildlife refuge. After her husbands death she continued their work by writing letters and articles, traveling to hearings and making speeches.
Lydia Rivera
9/8/2021 12:50:31 pm
Mardy Murie was a conservationist and writer who helped to pass the wilderness act and worked to establish the Arctic National wildlife refuge. She was born in August of 1902, in Seattle, Washington. She later moved to Fairbanks, Alaska, where she became the first woman to graduate from Alaska Agricultural College and School of Mines. From there she went on to study the populations of animals such as elk and sheep with her husband in Wyoming. She worked to conserve the populations of certain species in the area, and find out what was causing the decrease in population. From there she went on to buy a dude ranch which was became an area to research and work on conservation efforts. She and her husband also became secretary and director of the Wilderness society, where they worked to pass new law and policy to protect the environment. She also wrote and gave speeches on conservation and protecting the environment. Mardy dedicated her life to protecting the environment, and is called the “Grandmother of the conservation movement” for that reason. She helped to create new environmental policy’s that still benefit the environment to this day, which is why it’s very important to know what she did for our wildlife. Leave a Reply. |
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