Environmental Movements: New Age, Environmental Movement in the United States, Ecology Movement, Ecofeminism, Conservation Movement

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 64. Chapters: New Age, Environmental movement in the United States, Ecology movement, Ecofeminism, Conservation movement, Earth Liberation Front, Awaaz Foundation, Deep ecology, Chipko movement, Earth First!, Environmental movement in Australia, Save Silent Valley, Back-to-the-land movement, Gaia Movement, Appiko movement, The Puma Blues, Shangqing School, Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, Clamshell Alliance, Ekopedia, Ecotheology, United Nations Billion Tree Campaign, Vladimir Megre, Eco-communalism, Gort cloud, Transpersonal ecology, Ariel Salleh, Environmental movement in New Zealand, Global Scenario Group, Village Building Convergence, The Compact, Big Ask Campaign, Ecological Movement of Moldova, Residents Against SARP Pollution, Save Miguel, Shad Alliance, Montreal Archipelago Ecological Park, Yasunize, Cyprus Social Ecology Movement, Eco Warriors Flag, International Society of Doctors for the Environment, Eco-running. Excerpt: The Earth Liberation Front (ELF), also known as Elves or The Elves, is the collective name for autonomous individuals or covert cells who, according to the ELF Press Office, use economic sabotage and guerrilla warfare to stop the exploitation and destruction of the environment. The ELF was founded in Brighton in the United Kingdom in 1992 and spread to the rest of Europe by 1994. It is now an international movement with actions reported in 17 countries and is widely regarded as descending from Animal Liberation Front because of the relationship and cooperation between the two movements. Using the same leaderless resistance model, as well as similar guidelines to the ALF, sympathizers say that it is an eco-defense group dedicated to taking the profit motive out of environmental destruction by causing economic damage to businesses through the use of violence and arson. The ELF was classified a...