Ecoporn exposed: It's time for environmental movement to start truly baring all
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The glossy wall charts and engagement books having the pictures of animals and landscapes that are given by environmentalists could be considered as a type of pornography where these natural environments serve as surrogates for real engagement with wilderness in the same way as porn models serve as surrogates for real women. Hence, environmentalists should use the ugly effects caused by the humans on the nature and animals in order to make the humans aware about the environment.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2004
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Good trekking: Traveling abroad with life-saving supplies
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Janice Belson and her daughter Johanna launched Medicines Global to offer basic humanitarian first-aid supplies to health posts in remote villages along the trekking routes of the Annapurna mountain range. The organization is helping hundreds of trekkers, conveying more than US$2.5 million worth of supplies globally, due to partnerships with the health-conscious companies.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2005
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Winning the frame game
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Susan Nall Bales, Washington communications consultant addresses environmental groups that they can fix government policies until they become more conscious of the stories they are telling and the hidden chains of reasoning those stories can set off in peopleEs minds. Bales demonstrates why doomsday scenarios, factual or not, alienate the public.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2003
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