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Environmental History Timeline
Following conversations with other environmental historians. Long before Silent Spring, centuries before Greenpeace activists defied whalers' harpoons, many thousands of... |
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Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father USA
Benjamin Franklin stands tall among a small group of men we call our Founding Fathers. Ben used his diplomacy skills to serve his fellow countrymen. His role in the Ame... |
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John Snow, Physician
John Snow, Physician, reformer. During the cholera epidemics of the late 1840s and early 1850s, physician John Snow realized that cholera is transmitted through contamina... |
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John Muir
Writer, conservationist. America's most famous and influential conservationist, John Muir was the founder of the Sierra Club and a major influence on conservation policy... |
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Environmental Movement History
Important events in the history of the American environmental movement... |
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George Washington Carver
Scientist and early advocate for industrial uses for farm crops (bio-energy). Carver earned a B.S. from the Iowa Agricultural College in 1894 and an M.S. in 1896. He beca... |
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Gifford Pinchot
Forrester and conservation advocate. Gifford Pinchot was one of America's leading advocates of environmental conservation at the turn of the twentieth century. He served... |
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Alice Hamilton
Physician, reformer, founder of occupational medicine in the U.S. Alice Hamilton was the founder of occupational medicine in the U.S. and the first woman on the faculty o... |
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Earth Day 2003: Environmental Timeline
Teachers, researchers and students will find The Wilderness Society's Earth Day website the best source of info about Earth Day, with photos and a history of the first Ea... |
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Timeline to Global Governance
From The Society of the Elect and the Association of Helpers... |
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Rachel Carson
Author of Silent Spring (1962), Under the Sea-Wind (1941), The Sea Around Us (1952), The Edge of the Sea (1955). Rachel Louise Carson was a writer, scientist, and ecologi... |
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Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian Author
Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian author, journalist, government official and political organizer who was brutally executed by the Nigerian dictatorship in response to a very... |
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Silent Spring, Carson
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring r... |
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Sustainable Development Timeline
This interactive timeline highlights the milestones in the journey toward sustainable development... |
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Ecotonoha Project, The Virtual Tree
Ecotonoha is a project to nurture a virtual tree collaboratively, and at the same time contribute to the actual environment to cope with global warming. As one makes Ecot... |
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