Environmental movement

Historic conservation movement / Modern environmental movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_movement

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"Greening Our Blue Planet"

The 60's era was rightly known for its activist movements, from civil rights to the peace movement, to 'counter culture', social justice, and the beginnings of what would become a global environmental movement. Many of the threads for the green era began with the 'teach-ins' and the first Earth Day in 1970.

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http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/guardian-origins-epa

"American environmentalism dawned as a popular movement on a mild spring afternoon in 1970. Wednesday, April 22nd, brought blue skies, light breezes, and temperatures in the 60s to New York City and Washington, D.C. Much of the rest of the country enjoyed similar conditions. On that day, the influence of nature had particular meaning; the nation held a celebration of clean air, land, and water. Encouraged by the retreat of winter, millions participated."

"The first Earth Day may have been prompted... by the recent moon landings. When the astronauts turned their cameras homeward, capturing first images of a blue planet, the world looked upon itself with awe and new whole-Earth understanding..."

Years later, the Environmental Protection Agency would publish a history, including these notable phrases:

"By late 1969, the subterranean rumblings heralding the impending explosion could already be heard... "Suddenly out of the woodwork come thousands of people talking about ecology."

"It was at just this time that Congress sent to the President a remarkable bill known as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis)--looking back at the "Environmental Decade" in 1980--called NEPA "the most important piece of environmental legislation in our history."

Senator Gaylord Nelson recalls that right after the passage of NEPA, "the issue of the environment exploded on the country like Mount St. Helens."

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SJS: And the Senator proposed an Earth Day event amid what he called "the rumblings" and many of us in the student movement organized optimistically with a 'whole Earth' vision. The profound issues of 60s we were taking on, civil rights and then the war in Vietnam and now what we called "the big picture". This was the beginning of the counter-culture and 'going back to the earth', a time for looking ahead and seeing alternatives to politics- and business-as-usual. The modern environmental movement sprang forward and, on April 22nd, the first Earth Day raised its flag.

Earth Day flag

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A Modern Environmental Movement Is Born

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_policy_of_the_United_States

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Env_policy_laws_US_'the_beginning'_of_env_era.jpg

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr

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"The Magna Carta of the country’s national environmental laws"

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/National_Environmental_Policy_Act

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David Brower quoting Goethe -- “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”

{SJS: recalling one of David's favorite quotes when we were together with Danny Moses of Sierra Club books working the Green Education Fund}

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• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Governor_Jerry_Brown

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http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/epa-order-11102

http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/birth-epa

http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/guardian-epas-formative-years-1970-1973

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Unprecedented environmental protection bills began a process that continues to this day...

Green, environmental public policies, a foundation on which to build sustainable quality of life...

Water quality act http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-3456400109/water-quality-act-1965.html

Air quality act http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3197&context=lcp

National environmental policy act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Environmental_Policy_Act

Occupational safety and health act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health_Act

Consumer product safety act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Product_Safety_Act

Federal insecticide, fungicide and rodenticide act http://www.epa.gov/agriculture/lfra.html

Clean water act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Water_Act

Noise control act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise_Control_Act

Endangered species act http://www.fws.gov/endangered/laws-policies/

Safe drinking water act http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/guidance/sdwa/basicinformation.cfm

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Whole Earth

Origins of the modern environmental movement: Seeing the whole earth for the first time

Circa 1969

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The Apollo 8 Earthrise Photo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earthrise_book_cover_%282008%29.jpg

http://www.ibhanet.org/resources/documents/newsletters/spierearthrisephoto.pdf

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http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo_Earth_350x350.jpg

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg

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...and in 1972, an exclamation point, Apollo 17's image of "Blue Marble" Planet Earth

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_17

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