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was a period from 1750 to 1850 where changes in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and technology had a profound effect on the social, economic and cultural conditions of the times.
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Scotish-born american naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of the wilderness in the U.S. His activism helped preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia national park, and other wilderness areas.
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Published in 1854, the work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self reliance. It s a book which contains Thoreau's experiences for two years while he lived in a cabin he built in Walden park.
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One of 3 United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership at no cost of farmland called a "homestead".
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Established by the U.S Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant on March 1, 1872, is a national park located primarily in the U.S state of Wyoming. It is known for its wildlife and its many geothermal features.
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Formed in Chicago, Illinois in September 1875 by John Aston Warder to be an organization that acts as a clearinghouse for environmental organizations working to preserve world tree growth.
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Yosemite National Park is known for its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, Giant Sequoia groves, and biological diversity. 95% of the national park is wilderness and it was formed to honor Galen Clark and John Muir.
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The General Revision Act of 1891 repealed the "Timber Culture and Preemption Acts", and authorized the president of the United States, under the forest reserve act, to create forest preserves.
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The Sierra Club was founded by John Muir in 1892. It is the worlds oldest environmental organization.
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Conservation law in the United States introduced into congress by Rep. John F. Lacey. The Lacey Act protects both plants and wildlife by creating civil and criminal penalties for a wide array of violations.
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From the 1900's to the 1910's when Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir worked together to preserve hundreds of acres of land in the United States.
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Designation for certain protected areas of the U.S. managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service
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An agency of the United States department of Agriculture that administers the nations 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands.
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An American forester and politician. Pinchott served as the first chief of the United States Forest Service from 1905 until 1910.
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Influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness conservation. His ethics of nature and wildlife preservation had a profound impact on the environmental movement.
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An American non-profit, environmental organization, dedicated to conservation.
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in 1906 the act was passed by the United States Congress and signed into law by Theodore Roosevelt on June 8, 1906, giving the president of the U.S. authority to, by executive order to restrict the use of particular public land owned by the federal government.
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Theodore Roosevelt was waving off land to protect it and preserve it
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Is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations.
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A period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936.
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A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 17–23.
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An agency of the USDA (United States Department of Agricultural) that provides technical assistance to farmers and other private landowners and managers.
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A United States federal law that provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska) to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use.
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Requires each waterfowl hunter 16 years of age or older to possess a valid Federal hunting stamp.
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is a federal government agency within the United States Department of the Interior dedicated to the management of fish, wildlife, and natural habitats.
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is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962.
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Was written by Howard Zahniser of The Wilderness Society. It created the legal definition of wilderness in the United States, and protected some 9 million acres of federal land.
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is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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An act that recommends for nation wild rivers and scenic rivers to be protected from development that would substaintially change there wild and scenic rivers.
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The Cuyahoga River is known as the river which caught fire and this helped to spur the environmental movement in the late 1960's.
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A U.S environmental law that established a U.S national policy promoting the enhancement of the environment .
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An annual day on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness and appreciation of the Earths natural environment
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is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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created for the purpose to protect human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by congress.
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A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
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Is one of the dozens of United States environmental laws passed in the 1970s.
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Started in October 1973, when the members of Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries or the OAPEC (consisting of the Arab members of OPEC, plus Egypt, Syria and Tunisia) proclaimed an oil embargo.
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An announcement that chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) being added to the atmosphere might decrease the ozone layer surrounding the earth by 10 percent within the next fifty to eighty years.
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A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
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is the principal Federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous waste.
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Is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.
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is the primary federal law in the United States governing water pollution.
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Is the primary federal law that regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.
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A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
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A neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, located in the LaSalle section of the city. It officially covers 36 square blocks in the far southeastern corner of the city, along 99th Street and Read Avenue.
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was a partial nuclear meltdown which occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, United States on March 28, 1979.
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was a United States federal law passed in 1980 by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on December 2 of that year.
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was a gas leak incident in India, considered one of the world's worst industrial disasters.
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The objective of CERCLA is to clean up uncontrolled releases of specified hazardous substances.
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Was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (then officially Ukrainian SSR), which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities of the Soviet Union.
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An international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances believed to be responsible for ozone depletion.
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A United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment.
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An oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska.
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is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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The objective of CERCLA is to clean up uncontrolled releases of specified hazardous substances.
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is a United States government act. It was passed by Congress and addressed energy efficiency, energy conservation and energy management , natural gas imports and exports alternative fuels and requiring certain fleets to acquire alternative fuel vehicles, which are capable of operating on nonpetroleum fuels , electric motor vehicles, radioactive waste, coal power and clean coal, renewable energy, and other issues.
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Is a federal law, signed by President Bill Clinton, and passed by the United States Congress on October 8, 1994, that established the Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks and the Mojave National Preserve in the California desert.
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Is a United States federal law designed to control air pollution on a national level.
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A protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or FCCC), aimed at fighting global warming.
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It means that the population of the world has doubled in less than four decades. Similarly, it means that a tenth of all the people who have ever lived are now alive.
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Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.
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Was held in Cancún, Mexico, from 29 November to 10 December 2010.
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Is an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which flowed unabated for three months in 2010, and may be continuing to seep.
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It took only a dozen years for humanity to add another billion people to the planet, reaching the milestone of 7 billion.
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describes a period of agricultural development in Britain between the 15th century and the end of the 19th century, which saw an epoch-making increase in agricultural productivity and net output that broke the historical food scarcity cycles.
