On-Line Resources

Carson Honored on 20th Century Lists

Rachel Carson's scientific, literary, and journalistic contributions have been recognized on these end-of-the-century lists:

• Rachel Carson Homestead
  The Rachel Carson Homestead Association was formed in 1975 to preserve and restore this National Register historic site and to offer education programs which advance Rachel Carson's environmental ethic. Visit and experience first-hand the surroundings that made Rachel Carson a fierce and poetic defender of the natural world.
• Time Magazine
  100 Most Influential People of the Century
• NYU School of Journalism
  "100 pieces of Journalism"
• Pittsburgh Magazine
  quot;Pittsburgher's of the Century"
• Women's Hall of Fame

Other Useful Links

• Rachel Carson's environmental ethics
• Rachel Carson Online Book Club
• Exhibition in Homage to Rachel Carson at Yale's Beinecke Library
  New Haven, Conn. — A past exhibition on the pioneering environmental activist and author of "Silent Spring," Rachel Carson, will be at Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Wall and High streets, ended June, 2006.
• Living Downstream
  By Sandra Steingraber, is a splendid examination of the growing evidence linking cancer to environmental contamination, by an ecologist, poet, and cancer survivor.
• Our Stolen Future
• The Environmental Working Group
  Maintains the excellent The Pesticides Page.
• COPA
  The Coalition Opposed to PCB Ash in Monroe County, has extensive links to PCB and dioxin information.
• Guide to Biological Control
  An excellent and integrated pest management from Cornell University.
• American Society for Literature and the Environment
  Maintain wonderful links to a variety of environmental topics and writings.
• Society for Environmental Journalists
• New-Cue
  Hosts symposia and conferences for nature and environmental writing in honor of Rachel Carson.
• Wikipedia
• Ecology Hall of Fame
• Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge
• Rachel Carson, with introduction by Al Gore
• Rachel Carson Quotes
• The Rachel Carson Forum
• Rachel Carson Institute, Chatham College
• Beatrix Potter, A Life in Nature