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Blueprint for Going Green
How a Small Foundation Changed the Model for Environmental Conservation
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eBook - ePub
Blueprint for Going Green
How a Small Foundation Changed the Model for Environmental Conservation
About this book
How one organization took on industrial pollution—and the lessons for our new century
In 1977, one forward-thinking judge took an ecological disaster—the poisoning of the James River by Allied Chemical—and turned it into a great environmental-protection legacy. The $8 million payment made by Allied would go on to fund the game-changing Virginia Environmental Endowment.
Blueprint for Going Green provides an insider’s account of the remarkable results of this landmark ruling and the foundation it spawned. Over the following decades, the VEE helped to grow the fledgling environmental movement in Virginia into a powerful force for protecting the state’s water quality and conserving its landscape. This inspiring story reveals how a small group can make a profound difference by engaging in public policy work, funding science to advance public policy, and helping to build a lasting and effective citizen-led environmental movement.
Finalist for the Southern Environmental Law Center's Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award
In 1977, one forward-thinking judge took an ecological disaster—the poisoning of the James River by Allied Chemical—and turned it into a great environmental-protection legacy. The $8 million payment made by Allied would go on to fund the game-changing Virginia Environmental Endowment.
Blueprint for Going Green provides an insider’s account of the remarkable results of this landmark ruling and the foundation it spawned. Over the following decades, the VEE helped to grow the fledgling environmental movement in Virginia into a powerful force for protecting the state’s water quality and conserving its landscape. This inspiring story reveals how a small group can make a profound difference by engaging in public policy work, funding science to advance public policy, and helping to build a lasting and effective citizen-led environmental movement.
Finalist for the Southern Environmental Law Center's Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. A Poisoned River
- 2. The Judge’s Trust
- 3. An Independent Board
- 4. Defining the New Endowment
- 5. Article XI
- 6. Permission to Pollute
- 7. The Clean Water Act in Virginia
- 8. The Clean Water Act
- 9. Environmental Policy in Virginia
- 10. The Updated Mission of the Endowment
- 11. The Public Interest
- 12. The Chesapeake Bay
- 13. Clean Water and the Growth of Environmental Advocacy
- 14. Land Conservation and the Growth of Environmental Advocacy
- 15. The Virginia Conservation Network
- 16. Telling the Stories
- 17. Attitudes of Virginians about the Environment
- 18. Follow the Money
- 19. Environmental Education
- 20. Science Matters
- 21. Climate Change
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Author’s Note
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index