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This Book Helped Save the Planet—but Created a Very Harmful Myth

In one of my all-time favorite Parks and Recreation episodes, Leslie Knope excitedly tells the camera that the city of Pawnee will finally get fluoride in their water thanks to a merger with ...
KQED

Read With KQED the Book That Changed How We See Nature

Stay on top of what’s happening in the Bay Area with essential Bay Area news stories, sent to your inbox every weekday. The Bay Bay Area-raised host Ericka Cruz Guevarra brings you context and ...
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Rachel Carson wrote a book that started the environmental movement

In 1962, a former marine biologist published a book that would alter the way millions of Americans, and eventually people around the world, understood humanity’s relationship with nature. The book ...
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In 2026, the Bay Area Still Has Lots to Learn from 'Silent Spring'

KQED takes on the seminal work in the context of the MAHA movement, PFAS, climate change and more during a discussion at the ...
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What a book can do : the publication and reception of Silent spring / Priscilla Coit Murphy

Silent Spring and Its Contexts: "The Right to Know" -- Author and Agent: "Where an Author Can Call His Soul His Own" -- Editors and Publishers: Dealing with a "Super-Ruckus" -- Opposition: "How Do You ...