National Women's History Month--KSL March Research Spotlight
National Women's History Month Project features the 2009 theme Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet, with stories about women who have taken the lead in the environmental movement on state, local, & national levels, from the honorees list of biologists, filmakers, foresters, government officials, authors, and more, in the KSL March Research Spotlight.
• Read about people like Dr. Helen Helen Caldicott, physician, author, international speaker, and named by The Smithsonian Institute as one of the most influential women of the 20th Century.
• Learn more about why the NWHM Project highlights Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, her 60s work that was instrumental in creating the contemporary environmental "green" movement: "the story of how one scientist's courage changed the way we think about our world." [from PBS American Experience program and KSL Video 371, reading by Meryl Streep]
Explore & search the KSL-suggested databases for contemporary & scholarly research about some of the women you'll read about, and the issues facing all of us. Take the Test Your Knowledge Quiz (answers supplied) that will take you from the 1500s to modern times, on the March 2009 KSL Research Spotlight.
