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Rachel Carson


 

Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907April 14, 1964) was a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-born zoologist and biologist whose landmark book, Silent Spring, is often credited with having launched the global environmental movement. Silent Spring had an immense effect in the United States, where it spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy.

External links

  • Big Picture TV Free video of chemist Michael Braungart discussing Rachel Carson's legacy
  • GreenMonkey.com A word document discussing Rachel Carson's fiction that lead to her honorary title as "mother of the environmental movement".