Browse Items (41 total)

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