You may be onto something. When I hear or read an expression of austere environmental/ecological views, I often do think of — wasn’t her name Anne? Anyway, the hardcore “Red” (i.e., ‘leave it all desert’) Martian environmentalist from Robinson’s Mars trilogy.

I have to admit I liked her.

(Perhaps that’s because one case arises out of a dispute over a dog trapped in a hulking sculpture, whose maker decides to use the Visual Artists Rights Act to prevent an alteration of the sculpture needed to save the dog.”)…here’s a longer explanation of the issues:

“Oscar Crease, middle-aged college instructor, savant, and playwright, is suing a Hollywood producer for pirating his play Once at Antietam, based on his grandfather’s experiences in the Civil War, and turning it into a gory blockbuster called The Blood in the Red White and Blue. Oscar’s suit, and a host of others – which involve a dog trapped in an outdoor sculpture, wrongful death during a river baptism, a church versus a soft drink company, and even Oscar himself after he is run over by his own car – engulf all who surround him, from his freewheeling girlfriend to his well-to-do stepsister and her ill-fated husband (a partner in the white-shoe firm of Swyne & Dour), to his draconian, nonagenarian father, Federal Judge Thomas Crease, who has just wielded the long arm of the law to expel God (and Satan) from his courtroom.”

from

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?z=y&isbn=0684800527

As an aside, same novel is being made into a film, with John Malkovich in the lead role.