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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

U.S. Government, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, U.S. Government, 2010

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a federal public health agency within the United States Department of Health and Human…

Tags: Agency, Environment, Governments, Health, Health and Human Services, HHS, Toxic

None, United Nations Environment Programme, Mattias Sundholm, None

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP, UN Environment) is a programme of the United Nations that coordinates the organization's environmental…

Tags: Environment, International, NGOs, Policy, UNEP, United Nations

Simtropolitan, Department of Conservation and Recreation, Simtropolitan, 2004

The Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is a state agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, situated in the Executive Office of Energy…

Tags: Conservation and Recreation, DCR, Department, Environment, EPA, Massachusetts

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

Michelle Arseneault, Waste Management, Michelle Arseneault, 2008 August

Waste management laws govern the transport, treatment, storage, and disposal of all manner of waste, including municipal solid waste, hazardous waste,…

Tags: Environment, Legislation, Regulation, Waste Disposal, Waste Management

New Zealand Defence Force, Rena Oil Spill Cleanup, New Zealand Defence Force, 12 October, 2011

Environmental cleanup laws govern the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, sediment, surface water, or ground…

Tags: Cleanup, Contamination, Environment, Legislation, Regulation, Rena

Mark Dixon, DC Climate March - 2017, Mark Dixon, 29 April, 2017

The People's Climate March was a protest which took place on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall, and among 300 locations throughout the United States,…

Tags: D.C., Environment, People's Climate March, United States, Washington

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

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

Ahunt, Quadracycling, Public Domain, 13 January, 2008

The car-free movement is a broad, informal, emergent network of individuals and organizations, including social activists, urban planners,…

Tags: Cars, Environment, Public Transit, Urban, Vehicles

Anders Hellberg, Greta Thunberg, Anders Hellberg, 27 August, 2018

In August 2018, outside the Swedish parliament building, Greta Thunberg started a school strike for the climate. Her sign reads, “Skolstrejk för…

Tags: Activism, Climate Change, Environment, Greta Thunberg, Sweden

Bill Anders, NASA - Apollo8 -Dec 24 - Earthrise, Public domain in the United States, 24 December, 1968

The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific,…

Tags: Ecology, Environment, Human Rights, International, Movement, Policy

Debbie Bookchin, Murray Bookchin, Public domain in the United States, 11 April, 2007

Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. A pioneer in…

Tags: Ecology, Environment, Movement, Murray Bookchin, Planning

None, John Ruskin - Portrait - Project Gutenberg, Public domain in the United States, 30 September, 2006

An early "Back-to-Nature" movement, which anticipated the romantic ideal of modern environmentalism, was advocated by intellectuals such as John…

Tags: Consumerism, Environment, Industrial, John Ruskin, Legislation, Pollution

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

Barraud & Jerrard, Sir James Ranald Martin, Public domain in the United States, 1874

James Ranald Martin was prominent in promoting this ideology, publishing many medico-topographical reports that demonstrated the scale of damage…

Tags: Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, India, James Ranald Martin, Topography

None, Sir William Schlich, Public domain in the United States, 1892

The modern conservation movement was first manifested in the forests of India, with the practical application of scientific conservation principles.…

Tags: Conservation, Environment, India, Movement, William Schlich

D.O. Hill, St Rollox Chemical, Published before Jan 1, 1925. Public domain in the United States, 30 September, 2006

The origins of the environmental movement lay in the response to increasing levels of smoke pollution in the atmosphere during the Industrial…

Tags: Alkali, Environment, Health, Legislation, Pollution, UK

Sychev, I., ...But the booze was in the mouth..., Rutgers, 1984

The vain crow, a forest ranger, has been outwitted by the fox. This time he gives the crow a bottle of vodka and makes off with the trees that she is…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Corruption, Crow, Environment, Satire, Vodka

USEPA, International Climate Partnerships, US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), EPA, 2019

EPA supports the United States’ international partnerships to address the global challenge of climate change. As a party to the United Nations…

Tags: Climate Change, Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Greenhouse Gases, United States

United Nations, United Nations Economic and Social Council- Committee of Experts on Public Administration, United Nations, 2001

The Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA) was established under the aegis of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in…

Tags: CEPA, Development, Economics, ECOSOC, Environment, Public Administration, United Nations

Flickr, Wangari Maathai, Activist, Flickr, 2001

Maathai stood up courageously against the former oppressive regime in Kenya. Her unique forms of action have contributed to drawing attention to…

Tags: Biology, Environment, Kenya, Nobel Peace Prize, Trees, Wangari Maathai, Women

Office of Public Affairs: EPA, 1994- Christine Todd Whitman, First Woman Governor of New Jersey, EPA, 2001

None given

Tags: Christine Todd Whitman, Environment, EPA, Governor, New Jersey, NJ, Women

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

Dick Rowan, Sierra Club Nature Hike, National Archives, May-72

The Sierra Club, the largest grassroots environmental group in the United States, was founded in 1892 by environmentalist John Muir. They are…

Tags: CAA, Conservation, Environment, Grand Canyon, National Parks, Nature Hike, NEPA, Sierra Club

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

ERDC, GreenGov Presidential Awards, ERDC, 2015

With more than 1.8 million civilian employees, 500,000 buildings, and $500 billion in annual purchasing power, the Federal Government has an…

Tags: Agency, Clean Energy, Environment, GreenGov, Greenhouse Gases, Obama

America the Beautiful, America the Beautiful Fund, America the Beautiful, No date

America the Beautiful Fund is a national non-profit organization started in 1965 to encourage volunteer citizen efforts and to protect the natural and…

Tags: America the Beautiful, Conservation, Environment, Nonprofit, United States, Volunteer

Adam Stein, Goldman Environmental Foundation, Goldman Environmental Foundation, 2011

The Goldman Environmental Prize is the world's largest prize program honoring grassroots environmentalists. Founded in 1990 by Richard and Rhoda…

Tags: Environment, Environmentalist, Goldman Environmental Prize, Grassroots

Thors Instantenous Photographs, San Francisco, Lawyer and Judge Lorenzo Sawyer, University of California, August 2 1890

During Lorenzo Sawyer’s career on the senate, he made history and took a step forward for environmental rights. In 1884, the case of Woodruff v. North…

Tags: 9th Circuit, California, Court of Appeals, Environment, Judge, Lawyer, Lorenzo Sawyer, Mining