What question did this study set out to answer?

To showcase various environmental issues and activism efforts related to urban sprawl and resource exploitation.

April 10, 2026Open Access

Earth First! 26, no. 6

Key Points

To showcase various environmental issues and activism efforts related to urban sprawl and resource exploitation.
Compilation of features and articles on various environmental topics.
Interviews and reports from activists and protests around the world.
Archival materials made available for research and education.
Documented ongoing urban sprawl affecting natural landscapes.
Highlighted global protests in response to energy security initiatives.
Discussed the impact of industrial activities, like oil sands mining, on the environment.

Abstract

erin (Hufflepuff), Josh (Ravenclaw), Oskar (Gryffindor), and Sophie (Ravenclaw), eds., Earth First! 26, no. 6 (1 September 2006). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/7218. FEATURES • ELF STILL ON FIRE • ACCESS DENIED ANATOMY OF A POWER PLANT BLOCKADE • WILD ANCIENT FORESTS AND PRISTINE RIVERS PROTECTING THE WILD VALLEY • G8 PROTEST ROUNDUP “ENERGY SECURTIY” MET WITH PROTESTS WORLDWIDE • OIL SANDS MINING THE DEATH OF THE CANADIAN WILDERNESS • AGAINST THE CURRENT THE PLASTIC SEA • ACTION FOR THE SISKIYOU NATIONAL FOREST • SUPPORT THE SOUTH CENTRAL 10 • WHAT IS ROOT FORCE? DEMOLISHING COLONIALISM AT ITS FOUNDATIONS • WHAT IS GLOBALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE? • INFRASTRUCTURE EXPANSION • SOME ARCHITECTS • LA PAROTA DAM • ANILLO PERIFÉRICO • GET INVOLVED WITH ROOT FORCE • PASCUA LAMA MOVING GLACIERS AND MINING GOLD • HOW EARTH FIRST! GOT ITS GROOVE BACK REPORT FROM THE 2006 ROUNDUP RIVER RENDEZVOUS • STATE OF THE JOURNAL A MESSAGE FROM THE EF! EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE • EVOLVING EARTH FIRST! SUGGESTIONS FOR THE FUTURE OF THE MOVEMENT • THE CASE AGAINST IL SILVESTRE • THE GREEN SCARE CONTINUES SIX PLEAD GUILTY TO ARSONS AND CONSPIRACY • REMEMBERING MURRAY BOOKCHIN PIONEERING SOCIAL ECOLOGIST DIES AT 85 We’ve all seen it, wherever we live: urban sprawl. It overtakes wetlands, forests, fields and any other remaining natural places outside cities, and it turns them into paved Wal-Mart parking lots or chartreuse suburban lawns. The citizens try lobbying, but it seems that there’s no one who can stand in the way of the bulldozer. Or is there? — Sopaipilla The Rachel Carson Center’s Environment & Society Portal makes archival materials openly accessible for purposes of research and education. Views expressed in these materials do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the Rachel Carson Center or its partners.

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