Christine Baumann Feurt interviewed for Press Herald story on Rachel Carson

Christine Baumann Feurt, Ph.D., director of UNE's Center for Sustainable Communities and coordinator of the Coastal Training Program at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve, was quoted at length in an Aug.11, 2011 Portland Press Herald story on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

Bauman Feurt told the Press Herald that Carson "was the first to sound the alarm that we had to think about the environment and what we were doing to it. ... I don't think anyone has had the impact she had."

"She was in a way a reluctant Paul Revere," said Baumann Feurt. "Silent Spring" was not a book she wanted to write but one she felt compelled to complete."

The story also appeared in the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. Read the entire Press Herald story.

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