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Friends of the Earth Workshop

Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) is an international network of environmental organizations in 74 countries. Friends of the Earth was founded…

Tags: Education, Environment, Friends of the Earth, Organization, San Francisco, Sustainability

Earth First

“Political compromise has no place in the defense of Earth.”       Excerpt from an Earth First! Memo by Dave Forman and Howie Wolke In 1980 Dave…

Tags: Advocacy, Earth First, Ecology, Environment, Southwest, United States

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster

Tags: Accident, Anti-Nuclear, Disasters, Environment, Japan

Marina Silva

“Now more than ever we need sustainable development, and not the kind of development that we’re seeing right now. That means, a country that is…

Tags: Brazil, Deforestation, Environment, Marina Silva. Amazon, Senator

Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project, Department of the Interior, National Park Service (Design attributed to John Wagner), Don't Kill Our Wildlife, Library of Congress, 1940

This poster, which shows two deer running in front of a vehicle, urges the public not to "kill our wildlife." Created by the Federal Arts Project,…

Tags: Campaign, Environment, Federal Arts Project, Murals, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Foundation for the Arts, Scultptures, Wildlife, WPA

White House Photo Office, Nixon Plants a Tree, Public domain in the United States, 1971

Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, it…

Tags: Earth Day, Environment, United States, White House

Verplanck Colvin, Verplanck Colvin, Adirondack Artist, Albany State Printer, ca. 1879

Today, the United States is home to over 6,600 state park sites which span 14 million acres. The Adirondack Preserve, set up by New York state in the…

Tags: Adirondack Forests, Conservation, Forest, State Parks, Whiteface Mountain

Urning, Petra Kelly, Urning, None

Petra Karin Kelly was a German Green politician and ecofeminist activist. She was a founding member of the German Green Party, the first Green party…

Tags: Environment, Green Party, Nuclear Weapons, Petra Kelly, Politician

Unknown, John Muir, "The Father of our National Parks", Library of Congress, 1902

John Muir was not a 'dreamer,' but a practical man, a faithful citizen, a scientific observer, a writer of enduring power, with vision, poetry,…

Tags: Conservationalist, Environment, John Muir, National Parks, Sierra Club, US Forest Service

Underwood & Underwood, Muir and Roosevelt, Underwood & Underwood, 1906

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt (left) and nature preservationist John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club, on Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park.…

Tags: Environment, History, John Muir, Sierra Club, Theodore Roosevelt, Yosemite Park