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A Movement of the People - The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama (Paperback)
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A Movement of the People - The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama (Paperback)
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How a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama's
environmental consciousness. A Movement of the People: The Roots of
Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama is a detailed
history of the Alabama Environmental Quality Association (AEQA).
The AEQA helped to establish groundbreaking environmental
protection and natural resource preservation policies for the state
and the region and grew into one of the nation's most progressive
environmental education efforts. The AEQA began in 1966 with the
relatively simple political action agenda of cleaning up unsightly
and unsanitary roadside trash. These inspired citizens collaborated
with civic leaders to identify and remove illegal rural dumps and
create more regulated landfills statewide. Eventually they became
involved in the i?1/2Keep America Beautifuli?1/2 campaign and with
the US Public Health Service in its attempt to rid the state of the
yellow-fever mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti , which breeds in
standing, fetid water. The acme of these early efforts was the
passage of Alabama's Solid Waste Disposal Law of 1969, one of the
nation's first such bills. The AEQA's dedicated staff and
supporters spearheaded other environmental projects, many of which
remain active today, such as recycling programs with industry
giants throughout the Southeast and the founding of the Bartram
Trail Conference, a multistate initiative to identify and preserve
the path that Quaker botanist William Bartram took through the
territory before its formation into states. Using recorded
interviews with Martha McInnis, executive vice president of the
AEQA, and full access to a meticulously preserved archive of the
organization's papers and artifacts, Katie Lamar Jackson relates
this previously untold story of remarkable i?1/2citizen
activism.i?1/2 A Movement of the People is a valuable account of
the organization's growth and advancement, both economically and
societally, which serves as a blueprint for successful civic
activism and grassroots organizing.
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