Environmental movement
Historic conservation movement
Modern environmental movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_movement
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- Greening a 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, in part, 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...
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://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