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National Parks Service, Harry Yount National Park Ranger Award, National Parks Service, 2018

“If a trail is to be blazed, it is 'send a ranger.' If an animal is floundering in the snow, a ranger is sent to pull him out; if a bear is in the…

Tags: Environment, Government

Peace Corps, Peace Corps, Wikimedia Commons, 2016

The Peace Corps is a volunteer service program overseen by the United States government. Following the success of some smaller programs, like…

Tags: Environment, Government, Medicine, Peace, Volunteerism

Simtropolitan, Mass Department of Environmental Protection, Simtropolitan, None

The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection is an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, responsible for protecting the environment…

Tags: Climate Change, Department of Environmental Protection, Environment, Massachusetts, Pollution

Rolf Mueller, Longwanqun National Forest, Rolf Mueller, 25 July, 2011

Longwanqun National Forest is a nationally protected nature area in Huinan County, Jilin, China. Geographically, it is part of the western Changbai…

Tags: China, Environment, Forest, Longwanqun

AngMoKio, Yosemite National Park, AngMoKio, 7-Sep

Yosemite National Park is an American national park located in the western Sierra Nevada of Central California, bounded on the southeast by Sierra…

Tags: California, Environment, Park, United States, Yosemite

Henry Hartley, Forestry Laws, Henry Hartley, 20 September, 2004

Forestry laws govern activities in designated forest lands, most commonly with respect to forest management and timber harvesting. Ancillary laws may…

Tags: Environment, Forest, Foresty Laws, Land, Legislation, Timber

Danilo Prudêncio Silva, Ecologia, Danilo Prudêncio Silva, 24 August, 2007

World Environment Day (WED) is celebrated on 5 June every year, and is the United Nations' principal vehicle for encouraging awareness and action for…

Tags: Awareness, Environment, Event, NGOs, Platform, Pollution

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

Bogdan Giușcă, 2013 Romanian protests, Bogdan Giușcă, 15 September, 2003

The 2013 Romanian protests against the Roșia Montană Project were a series of protests in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca and dozens of other cities in Romania…

Tags: Bucharest, Environment, Mining, Protest, Ro?ia Montan? Project, Romania