EIU Booth Library

Rachel Carson and the Environmental Movement of the 1960s

Posted on October 2nd, 2014

Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
QH545.P4 C38 1994

Peanuts cartoon from November 12, 1962. As a well known author and scientist at the time, Carson will be frequently referenced in future strips as a female role model.

The following resources demonstrate the evolutionary thread of
environmentalism in America, specifically before Rachel Carson’s 1962 publication of Silent Spring, and then the subsequent waves of influence this book generated and continues to generate into the 21^st century. The books are featured alongside a 1960s environmental display (“Biocide: Rachel Carson and the Environmental Movement”) located in the Reference Room Corridor on the 3000 level of Booth Library.  The display, the book table, and this article publicizing them are the work of Lee Whitacre, a senior library specialist in the library’s Acquisitions Department.

Aldo Leopold: A Fierce Green Fire
Marybeth Lorbiecki
QH31 .L618 L68 1999

note: Book Stacks locations: call numbers A-H are on the 3000 Level; J-L 2000 Level; P-Z 1000 Level

Communitas: Means of
Livelihood and Ways of Life
Paul and Percival Goodman
NA9030 .G6 1960

A Sand County Almanac
Aldo Leopold
QH81 .L56 1989x

Buckminster Fuller:
Designing for Mobility
Michael John Gorman
TA140.F9 G67 2005x

My First Summer
in the Sierra
John Muir
QH31.M9 A34 2003

The Ecopoetry Anthology
Edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street
PS595.N22 E27 2013

The Last Whole Earth
Catalog
TS199 .W46x

An example of pages from the whole earth catalog.

Rachel Carson’s
Silent Spring
QH545 .P4 R32 2007X .DVD

A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet
GE195 .F537 2012x .DVD