Documents Tagged ‘Ecology Action’


Recycling Board Game

Archive Entry Date: 09/15/1979

Cliff Humphrey suggested that you take your Monopoly board game and re-purpose it

Here’s How to Recycle at the Co-Op Center

Archive Entry Date: 05/72

Though Ecology Action's founders left Berkeley, others kept recycling alive in the city

Recycling Needs Your Help

Archive Entry Date: c. 1971-72

Ecology Action, "swamped" by recycling, asked the public to pressure the city for more resources

Case Study of the History and Development of Ecology Action

Archive Entry Date: 02/72

Ecology Action's 67-page history of itself, written for the newly-created EPA

An Image of an Ecological Utopia

Archive Entry Date: 1971

Ecology Action's illustrators offer an image of nature aglow

An Eco-Activist Fable

Archive Entry Date: 1971

A parable about corporate America and the co-opting of the environmental movement, in coloring-book form

Ecology Action News Release

Archive Entry Date: 10/20/70

Announcing the beginning of a new recycling center — in Modesto

Soil Protection

Archive Entry Date: 1970s

Soil is a living system which is subjected to the ecological imperatives constraining all living systems

Edible Weeds

Archive Entry Date: c. 1970

Don't kill weeds, eat them: so suggested Ecology Action

Recycle and Bicycle

Archive Entry Date: 05/70

How to address the threat to the environment? Be a wise consumer and rethink waste

Misuse of Land

Archive Entry Date: 1970

The rigged economy that produces "development," explained from an environmentalist perspective

The Better Earth

Archive Entry Date: 03/29/1970

An extensive profile of Ecology Action and its environmentalist vision, courtesy of the New York Times Magazine

Pete Seeger’s letter to Ecology Action

Archive Entry Date: 02/02/1970

The legendary folksinger had little patience for the "long-winded" style of the Declaration of Interdependence

Lifehouse: A Neighborhood Eco-Center

Archive Entry Date: 1970

How to create an eco-minded hub in your community, according to Ecology Action

Ecology Action Is

Archive Entry Date: c. 1970

Ecology Action offered a loose set of definitions of itself

Composting in the City

Archive Entry Date: 1970s

How to set up your own compost, according to Ecology Action

Smog Free Locomotion Day press release

Archive Entry Date: 09/13/1969

Ecology Action's parade highlighted a world of transportation alternatives

The Unanimous Declaration of Interdependence

Archive Entry Date: 09/1969

A crucial founding document of the environmental movement

Prevent the Destruction of Human and Natural Resources

Archive Entry Date: c. 1969

Ecology Action's operating principles, expressed in a single image

Newspaper Troubles

Archive Entry Date: c. 1969

With good reason, newspaper was the first to be recycled

College Students Dumping Litter Ceremoniously

Archive Entry Date: 5/6/69

DVC students hoped, at their Ecology Fair, to stir their fellow students' consciences

The Problem Is a Crisis

Archive Entry Date: c. 1969

Ecology Action laid out the crisis to which their group was the solution

How To Start A Neighborhood Recycling Center

Archive Entry Date: c.1969-1970

A friendly guide so that the environmentally conscious could start their own recycling center