The inspiring story of a seemingly ordinary woman who led one of the most successful, single-purpose, grassroots efforts of our time.
Photographs in Love Canal tell the story of the community's early development and the subsequent use of the canal by Hooker Electrochemical Company to discard industrial chemical waste from 1942 to 1953.
Photographs in Love Canal tell the story of the community's early development and the subsequent use of the canal by Hooker Electrochemical Company to discard industrial chemical waste from 1942 to 1953.
Rumors had circulated for years that the Love Canal community near Niagara Falls, New York, was contaminated by toxic chemicals.
What do their efforts teach us about current environmental health threats and how to prevent them? Love Canal is Gibbs’ original account of the landmark case, now updated with insights gained over three decades.
Provides a factual account of the events of Love Canal, a community unknowingly built on a toxic waste site that led to severe illnesses and birth defects.
Thirty years after the headlines, Love Canal remains synonymous with toxic waste. When this neighborhood of Niagara Falls, New York, burst upon the nation's consciousness, the media focused on...
Borrowing the multi-viewpoint technique of the classic Japanese film RASHOMON, sociologist/engineer Allan Mazur reveals that there are many--often conflicting--versions of what occurred at Love Canal.
In 1962 , scientist Rachel Carson warned that this commonly used pesticide could find its way from farms and ... Carson's book , Silent Spring , is named after an imagined future in which most birds and animals had been wiped out by ...
Love Canal: Science, Politics, and People
The young housewife who organized the residents of the Love Canal neighborhood to publicize their plight and protest to state and federal officials updates the struggle to persuade government officials...