-
Sep 12, 1500
Agricultural Revolution
The first agricultural revolution was also known as The Neolithic Revolution. The organic system was replaced by an energy system. -
Period: Dec 12, 1500 to
Years
-
Industrial Revolution
The Indutrial Revolution was a major shift of technology and the use of machines was created to work faster and make more suppplies, it all started in Britain and soon spread all over the world. -
John Muir
Muir was born in Dunbar, UK. he is an important figure in the environmetal history because of his project with yosemite land. -
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
This book was based on his life that he spent isolated from society for 2 years, 2 months and 2 days, he was inspired to creat this by the Transcendentalist philosophy. -
Homestead Act
The act that allowed you to have 160 acres of land, the land ould be yours officially at the end of 5 years but only if you built a house and actually lived in it. -
Yellowstone National Park founded
they established it as the first national park in the world, to preserve the best of nature. -
American Forestry Assossiation founded
one of the first groups in North America to promote forest conservation. -
Yosemite and Sequoia National Park founded
a national park in Sierra Nevada in Central California, with the highest waterfall. -
General Revision Act
gives the president permission to create forest perserves -
Sierra Club founded
The club had four basic rules:
1. Explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of earth
2. Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources
3.Educate and enlist humanity to protec and restore the quality of the natural and human environment
4. Use all lawful means to carry out these objects -
Lacey Act
The Lacey Act, protects both plants and wildlife by creating punishments for disturbing wild life. This act prohibits trade in wildlife, fish, and plants that have been illegally taken, possessed, transported or sold. -
Golden Age of Conservation
In 1901-1909 Theodore Roosevelt was the president and was worried about our environment. He created the forest service and many other programs to help our national parks stay beautiful and clean. -
First National Wildlife Refuge established
President Roosevelt signed an executive order making Pelican Island the first federal bird reservation. He established a total of 55 bird reservation and national game preserved for wildlife. -
U.S Forest Service Founded
They are the ones to care of the wildlife in the forest and everything that surrounds it and grows there too. They teach people how important our environment is. -
Gifford Pinchot
Pinchot's department got control of the national forest reserves, and that cause a dramatic increase in the authority of the Forest Service, he used the media to get people to know about the forest. -
The Aldo Leopold Foundation
This is a group that goes around and plants a variety of plants around parks and forest, their goal is to create a cleaner and healthier environment. -
Audubon Society founded
The purpose is to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, and other wildlife and their habitats -
Antiquities Act
This act was made because many citizens were worried that a lot of historical Indian lands were not being preserve, so this meant that whoever distrubed or abused of the ruins would get a penalty or punishment. -
U.S National Park service founded
President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service, a new federal bureau in the Department of the Interior responsible for protecting the 35 national parks and monuments then managed by the department and those yet to be established. -
Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl occured during the Great Depression. The dust blew everywhere uncontrollably thoughout northern Texas, south-western Oklahoma, and Kansas. Many poeple then moved to California. -
Soil Conservation Service founded
appropriate crop rotations, to keep soil from eroding. -
Civilian Conservation Corps founded
The Civilian Conservation Corps, CCC, was one of the first New Deal programs. It was a public works project intended to promote environmental conservation and to build good citizens through vigorous, disciplined outdoor labor. Close to the heart of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the CCC combined his interests in conservation and universal service for youth. -
Taylor Grazing Act
The purposes of the act were to stop injury to the public lands; provide for their orderly use, improvement, and development; and stabilize the livestock industry dependent on the public range. -
Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act
The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act came about because conservationists were alarmed by a rapid decrease in wild ducks and geese. -
Fish Plus Wildlife Service founded
Main goal is to conserve and enhance fish, wildlife, and plants and their environment for the benefit of the people. The major responsbilities of the service is migratory birds and endangered species. -
Silent Spring Published by Rachel Carson
generated a storm of controversy over the use of chemical pesticides. Miss Carson's intent in writing Silent Spring was to warn the public of the dangers associated with pesticide use. Throughout her book are numerous case studies documenting the harmful effects that chemical pesticides have had on the environment. -
Wilderness Act
The Wilderness Act sought to, "assure that an increasing population, accompanied by expanding settlement and growing mechanization, does not occupy and modify all areas within the United States and its possessions, leaving no lands designated for preservation and protection in their natural condition..." -
Wild and Senic Rivers act
President Johnson signed the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, sponsored by Senator Frank Church. The Act currently protects more than 200 rivers in 35 states and Puerto Rico. -
Cuyahoga River Fire - Ohio
floating pieces of oil slicked debris were ignited on the river by sparks caused by a passing train. -
NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act)
NEPA established a national environmental policy intentionally focused on Federal activities and the desire for a sustainable environment balanced with other essential needs of present and future generations of Americans. -
First Earth Day
In spring 1970, Senator Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day as a way to force this issue onto the national agenda. Twenty million Americans demonstrated in different U.S. cities, and it worked! -
Environmental Protection Agency Established
consolidate in one agency a variety of federal research, monitoring, standard-setting and enforcement activities to ensure environmental protection.
Clean Air Act ('63,'65, '70, '77, '90) -
OPEC Oil Embargo
Aab oil producers declared anembargo that drastically limited the shipment of oil to the United States” (“OPEC…Embargo”). -
Endangered Species Act
provides for the conservation of species that are endangered or threatened throughout all or a significant portion of their range, and the conservation of the ecosystems on which they depend. -
Roland and Molia announce that cfcs are depleting the oxone layer
Roland and Mario J. Molina of the University of California, Irvine warned that CFCs had the potential to deplete the ozone layer. This was the first warning issued, and since that time, more scientists have agreed with that conclusion and issued their own warnings. The discovery that CFCs destroy ozone molecules caused some controversy and eventually led to the ban of CFCs in aerosols by the United States, Canada and some Scandinavian countries in 1978. -
RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
our nation’s primary law governing the disposal of solid and hazardous waste. -
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act
An act established to protect society and the environment from the harmful effects of surface coal minig operations and to set forth reclamation guidelines for surface coal mining areas. -
Clean Water Act
The Clean Water Act was establishesd for the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States and regulating quality standards for surface waters. -
Love Canal, NY (toxic waste leaks into residential houses)
In the 1960’s, residents began complaining of strange odors in their neighborhoods. These complaints grew in the 1970’s when the toxins from the landfill began leaching into surface and groundwater bringing the substances into basements and backyards.toxic wastes had contaminated much of the area and contaminated waste had also runoff into the sewer system , surrounding creeks and the Niagara River, a source of drinking water for nearly 77,000 people. -
3 Mile Island Nuclear accident, Pennsylvania
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in USA a cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the # 2 reactor.
Some radioactive gas was released a couple of days after the accident, but not enough to cause any dose above background levels to local residents. There were no injuries or harmful health effects from the Three Mile Island accident. -
Alaskan Lands Acts
designated certain public lands in Alaska as units of the National Park, National Wildlife Refuge, Wild and Scenic Rivers, National Wilderness Preservation and National Forest Systems, that resulted in expansion of all systems. 10 National Parks and Reserves 2 National Monuments 9 National Wildlife Refuges (Including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, 2 National Conservation Areas & 25 Wild and Scenic rivers -
CERCLA
CERCLA is commonly known as Superfund. This law created a tax on the chemical and petroleum industries and provided broad Federal authority to respond directly to threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health or the environment. -
Bhopal, Indiana
a cloud of poisonous gas, called methyl isocyanate, escaped from a pesticide plant run by Union Carbide in Bhopal, India, killing about 4,000 people. -
Chernobly Meltdown, Ukraine
a sudden rush of power during a reactor systems test destroyed Unit 4 of the nuclear power station at Chernobyl, Ukraine. The accident and the fire that followed released massive amounts of radioactive material into the environment.The Chernobyl accident contaminated wide areas of Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine inhabited by millions of residents. -
Montreal Protocol
The Montreal Protocol was designed to reduce the production and consumption of ozone depleting substances in order to reduce their abundance in the atmosphere, and thereby protect the earth’s ozone Layer. -
Exxon Valdez
the oil tanker Exxon Valdez struck in Alaska, spilling more than 11 million gallons of crude oil. The spill was the largest in U.S. history. Many species were in danger such as harbor porpoises and sea lions, and several varieties of whales. Ten million migratory shore birds and waterfowl, hundreds of sea otters, were in danger as well. -
Energy Policy Act of 1992
This act set goals, created mandates, and amended utility laws to increase clean energy use and improve overall energy efficiency in the United States. The Act consists of 27 titles dealing with many measures designed to lessen the nation's dependence on imported energy, provide reasons to clean and use renewable energy, and promote energy conservation in buildings. -
Deseert Protection Act
federally owned desert lands of southern California are value for current and future generations. "This Act establishes the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert." -
Kyoto Protocol
legally binding agreement which industrialized countries will reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases by 5.2%. -
world population hits 6 billion
The world’s population hti 6 billion, with the birth of a baby in Sarajevo. Mnay poeple fear further environmental degradation and human suffering. -
AL Gore & IPCC presented with Nobel prize
Their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. -
UN Climste Chamge Conference, Cancun, Mexio
The meeting was about the basis for the most comprehensive and far-reaching international response to climate change the world had ever seen to reduce carbon emissions and build a system which made all countries accountable to each other for those reductions. -
World population hits 7 billion
Countries around the world marked the world's population reaching 7 billion. people's warnings that there may be too many humans for the planet's resources.
