Cuba is the first country in the world to attempt to restructure its society along ecological lines. This decision was partly a result of urgent necessity, partly the result of conviction and partly a retrospective realization that that is what they were doing for a variety of short-term reasons. For instance urban gardens were being developed to grow food, but city planners see it also as part of a process of ruralization or humanization of city life.
The following is a transcript of a speech delivered by Richard Levins to a conference of public health workers on The Exportation of Hazardous Industries to Developing Countries held in New York City on November 2, 1979. Published in Puerto Rico Libre, Dec 1979
Originally published in Monthly Review, September, 2000. The text is based on a talk given by Levins at the Brecht Forum in New York City.
First published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution (Tree), Vol 10, No 7, July 1995
For most of my life I have been uncomfortable with the term “spirituality” because it seemed to imply religion, but I now accept its common usage as pertaining to our deepest values and feelings.
This article was published in La Escalera, Summer 1969
The following article contains the text of the keynote address Richard Levins delivered at The New York Marxist School's Conference on Dialectical Materialism, held in October 1979. It was first published in Working Papers on Marxism and Science issued in 1981 by The New York Marxist School.
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The following article is an address given by Richard Levins on his receipt of the 1996 Edinburgh Medal during the 1996 Edinburgh International Science Festival.1
The following is the testimony presented by Richard Levins, in May 1980, to Congressional hearings on U.S. military activities on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques. For decades, the small island of Vieques, just off the coast of Puerto Rico was the site of international protests.