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Helen Slottje
Helen Slottje is an American lawyer and Environmentalism, environmental activist. She received the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2014. Life Helen lives in Ithaca, New York with her husband. She previously worked as a commercial attorney in Boston. She began fighting fracking after attending a presentation on the topic in 2009. She is credited with helping pass bans against fracking in more than a hundred communities in New York. References American environmentalists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Goldman Environmental Prize awardees {{US-activist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Environmentalism
Environmentalism or environmental rights is a broad philosophy, ideology, and social movement regarding concerns for environmental protection and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the impact of changes to the environment on humans, animals, plants and non-living matter. While environmentalism focuses more on the environmental and nature-related aspects of green ideology and politics, ecologism combines the ideology of social ecology and environmentalism. ''Ecologism'' is more commonly used in continental European languages, while ''environmentalism'' is more commonly used in English but the words have slightly different connotations. Environmentalism advocates the preservation, restoration and improvement of the natural environment and critical earth system elements or processes such as the climate, and may be referred to as a movement to control pollution or protect plant and animal diversity. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
