The Fabian Society is calling for a new "Community Environment bank holiday" to revive interest in local environmentalism after its research showed that just as many people are concerned about litter and dog-fouling as they are about climate change.
There are separate exhibits on local environmentalism as well, showing models for low-carbon-footprint housing, plans to increase wind and solar power, designs for the recycling of garbage and water and for the preservation of some old neighborhoods of courtyard houses, with their elaborate attention to feng shui, the ancient Chinese way of ensuring harmony between man and nature.
Overall, the analysis revealed three types of municipalities – high, partial, and limited commitment – that are indicated by a variation in environmental values, demographic and socio-economic status, local organised environmentalism, municipal environmental messages, and intergovernmental disposition.
All environmentalism is local, and begins with understanding that it's time to rethink our ideas of lawns and gardens.
Which ones get built and which ones do not -- and how free-market capital, environmentalism and local politics will shape that debate -- are questions that are only now being asked.
In addition to providing training and jobs, Ngwenya aims to inspire a sense of environmentalism in local children by sponsoring school activities and sports teams.
When Mr. McKibben praises new leaders of the big green groups, he singles out Michael Brune as a prime example of environmentalism's new local focus.
The environmental justice movement has had a profound effect on environmentalism and on environmental health.
This isn't environmentalism, it's environmental insanity.
Collectively, their focus on the Northeast -- and particularly the undulating folds and retreating horizons of the Hudson River Valley -- created a bond of aesthetics and environmentalism that became a thread of the local culture, visible from the battle to protect Storm King Mountain from development in the 1960's, to the struggles over PCB pollution in the river today.
The report, Pride of Place: Land, Community and a Popular Environmentalism, argues that, by engaging more with their own local environment, individuals would be more likely to change their behaviour to help halt global climate change.
