Author: Wisconsin State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Wisconsin, Its Natural Resources and Industrial Progress
Author: Wisconsin State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Banning DDT
Author: Bill BerryPublisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870206451
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
On a December day in 1968, DDT went on trial in Madison, Wisconsin. In Banning DDT: How Citizen Activists in Wisconsin Led the Way, Bill Berry details how the citizens, scientists, reporters, and traditional conservationists drew attention to the harmful effects of “the miracle pesticide” DDT, which was being used to control Dutch elm disease. Berry tells of the hunters and fishers, bird-watchers, and garden-club ladies like Lorrie Otto, who dropped off twenty-eight dead robins at the Bayside village offices. He tells of university professors and scientists like Joseph Hickey, a professor and researcher in the Department of Wildlife Management in at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, who, years after the fact, wept about the suppression of some of his early DDT research. And he tells of activists like Senator Gaylord Nelson and members of the state’s Citizens Natural Resources who rallied the cause. The Madison trial was one of the first for the Environmental Defense Fund. The National Audubon Society helped secure the more than $52,000 in donations that offset the environmentalists’ costs associated with the hearing. Today, virtually every reference to the history of DDT mentions the impact of Wisconsin’s battles. The six-month-long DDT hearing was one of the first chapters in citizen activism in the modern environmental era. Banning DDT is a compelling story of how citizen activism, science, and law merged in Wisconsin’s DDT battles to forge a new way to accomplish public policy. These citizen activists were motivated by the belief that we all deserve a voice on the health of the land and water that sustain us.
Wisconsin, Its Natural Resources and Industrial Progress
Author: Wisconsin State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Foxconned
Author: Lawrence TabakPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022674065X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Your dream house is blighted -- Foxconn comes to America -- What does the Foxconn say? -- Who made that TV? -- The land grab -- Racine, poster child of the Rust Belt -- Sherrard, Illinois -- Monkey business in the middle -- Wassily Leontief and input-output economic impact -- Flying Eagle economic impact -- A tea party for Foxconn -- A bright, shining object -- The problem with picking winners -- An ill wind blows -- All politics are local -- The trouble with TIF -- Following the money -- Foxconn on the ground -- Breaking the cycle.
Wisconsin, Its Natural Resources and Industrial Progress
Author: Wisconsin State Agricultural SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Report
Author: New York State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Geography and Industries of Wisconsin
Author: Ray Hughes WhitbeckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
State of Wisconsin Blue Book
Author: WisconsinThe State of Wisconsin Blue Book
Author: Publisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN:
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Conclusions and Recommendations of the Committee and Research Report on Industrial Development, Submitted to the Governor and the Legislature, January, 1955
Author: Wisconsin. Legislature. Legislative Council. Committee on Industrial DevelopmentPublisher: Legislative Reference Bureau
ISBN:
Category : Industrial policy
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description