Books written by Adam Rome

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  The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation

  But no one has told the whole story before. The story of the first Earth Day is inspiring: it had a power, a freshness, and a seriousness of purpose that are difficult to imagine today. Earth Day 1970 created an entire green generation.

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  The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism

  Scholarly history of efforts to reduce the environmental costs of US suburban development.

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  The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation

  Describes the first-ever Earth Day held in 1970 and discusses the ensuing rise of the environmental movement that has since grown to become a major source of inspiration to Americans and others around the world.

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  Green Capitalism?: Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century

  Written by scholars of business history and environmental history, the essays in this volume consider the nature of capitalism through historical overviews of twentieth-century businesses and a wide range of focused case studies.

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  The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism

  The book also offers a valuable historical perspective for participants in contemporary debates about the alternatives to sprawl.

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  The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation

  But no one has told the whole story before. The story of the first Earth Day is inspiring: it had a power, a freshness, and a seriousness of purpose that are difficult to imagine today. Earth Day 1970 created an entire green generation.