2. Income Inequality The poor just keep getting poorer and the rich just keep getting richer, it’s a vicious cycle. “The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government.” –Theodore Roosevelt U.S. President (1858-1919)

3. Race and Politics in Obama’s Presidency  The power and symbolism of Obama’s election is compromised by the extent to which his presidency has been shaped by white expectations and white racism. Chen

4. Ryan Barbera

5. Silent Spring (1962) - Rachel Carson - Inspired EPA, Clean Air & Water Acts WOMEN VOTERS IN 1962 : 45% The Feminine Mystique (1963) - Betty Freidan - INFLUENCED POLICY ON REGULATION OF PESTICIDES - CREDITED WITH CREATING CONTEMPORARY FEMINISM - FOUGHT FOR PRO-CHOICE LEGISLATION - PUSHED FOR WOMEN TO BECOME LARGEST VOTING DEMOGRAPHIC ECOFEMINIST PIONEER:LEADS TO EXPANDING # OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE JOHN KENNEY

6. Criticism of Rachel Carson “A spinster was so worried about genetics” -Erza Taft Benson “As for insects, isn't it just like a woman to be scared to death of a few little bugs!” -Letter to the New Yorker Whitney-Perry

7. Landfill Energy Recovery “As part of our commitment to creating cleaner, greener communities, we’re continually researching, developing and implementing innovative technologies to help us preserve and conserve our natural resources.” - Ted Neura, senior director of sustainable business planning and development for Republic Services.

8. Henry David Thoreau’s Walden “…To front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discovered that I had not lived… I wanted to live deep and suck all marrow out of life… to know it by experience and to be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion…”. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring “To the bird watcher, the suburbanite who derives joy from birds in his garden, the hunter, the fisherman or the explorer of wild regions, anything that destroys the wildlife of an area for even a single year has deprived him of pleasure to which he has a legitimate right…Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song... Can anyone imagine anything so cheerless and dreary as a springtime without a robin’s song? ” Christopher Cerovac