Celebrating Ecology Icons Past and Present, Famous and Grassroots
ECOLOGY ICONS will profile the powerful figureheads of the environmental movement, the grassroots activists and leaders that push environmentalism ever forward.
Ecology Icons will feature articles by and about prominent environmentalists, with accompanying archives of photos, videos, their published works, quotes, etc. providing a unique, valuable in-depth resource.
Rachel Carson – Giving nature a voice
By Linda Engelsiepen
You probably know what “carbon footprint” means, even if you don’t know what yours is. Chances are, you used a reusable cloth bag to carry your organically grown tomatoes from the market, and you might use “green” products to clean your kitchen and non-chemical pesticides to kill the aphids on your roses. You might do this because you care about the environment and the health of the planet and your family and yourself – and maybe in part because it’s considered socially unacceptable not to care…
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (1902-1984) was a revered, visionary nature photographer and an outspoken advocate of the preservation of the natural world. His iconic black and white photographs remain a pinnacle in the history of fine art photography, and continue to inspire a new generation of artists and conservationists today.
Born in San Francisco, California in 1902, Adams first visited Yosemite Valley at the age of 14 with his Kodak Brownie camera. He fell in love with Yosemite, which remained a vital source of inspiration and activism through his life.
John James Audubon
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was an acclaimed American ornithologist, naturalist, writer and artist. His extensive work illustrating American birds culminated in his color-plate book The Birds of America (1827-1839), containing 435 life-sized watercolors of North American birds, reproduced from hand-engraved plates. This iconic work was originally printed on handmade paper 39.5” tall by 28.5” wide, in 4 volumes, complete with 5 volumes of his related field notes.
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was a visionary German biologist, zoologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, author and natural history illustrator. One of the most influential biologists of the 19th century, Haeckel was a champion of Darwin’s theory of evolution. He discovered, documented and named thousands of new species and is known for coining many popular biological terms, such as phylum, phylogeny, stem cell and ecology, which he defined as the economy of nature.
Ecology Icon Profiles in Development:
Rachel Carson
Ansel Adams
Ernst Haeckel
Chief Seattle
Wangari Maathai
Greta Thunberg
EO Wilson
Dr. Sylvia Earle
John Muir