Name: Dirty Water: One Man's Fight to Clean Up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays (en Inglés)
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Author: Sharpsteen, Bill
ISBN: 9780520256606

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Dirty Water: One Man's Fight to Clean Up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Bill Sharpsteen

Editorial

University of California Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

288

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.2 x 14.7 x 2.4 cm

Peso

0.44 kg.

ISBN

0520256603

ISBN13

9780520256606

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del oeste
Biografía: general
Historia de américa
Ecología aplicada
Historia local

Dirty Water: One Man's Fight to Clean Up One of the World's Most Polluted Bays (en Inglés)

Bill Sharpsteen (Autor) · University of California Press · Tapa Dura

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Dirty Water is the riveting story of how Howard Bennett, a Los Angeles schoolteacher with a gift for outrageous rhetoric, fought pollution in Santa Monica Bay--and won. The story begins in 1985, when many scientists considered the bay to be one of the most polluted bodies of water in the world. The insecticide DDT covered portions of the sea floor. Los Angeles discharged partially treated sewage into its waters. Lifeguards came down with mysterious illnesses. And Howard Bennett happily swam in it every morning. By accident, Bennett learned that Los Angeles had applied for a waiver from the Clean Water Act to continue discharging sewage into the bay. Incensed that he had been swimming in dirty water, Bennett organized oddball coalition to orchestrate stunts such as wrapping brown ribbon around LA's city hall and issuing Dirty Toilet Awards to chastise the city's administration. This is the fast-paced story of how this unusual cast of characters created an environmental movement in Los Angeles that continues to this day with the nationally recognized Heal the Bay. Character-driven, compelling, and uplifting, Dirty Water tells how even the most polluted water can be cleaned up-by ordinary people.