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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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