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An Era of Environmentalism


The Age Gap in Environmental Politics - State of the Planet

A long-running trend is that young people care more than old people about protecting the environment. It is not an attitude that changes with age.

50 years of Environmental Milestones - UNEP

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022. Founded in 1972 following the landmark UN Conference on the Human ...

A Fierce Green Fire | Timeline of Environmental Movement and History

Seminal works that serve as milestones in environmentalism come from writers and naturalists from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century.

Environmental Heritage - Pennsylvania DEP

In 1962, Rachel Carson, an Allegheny County native for whom DEP's headquarters building in Harrisburg is named, helped start the modern era of environmentalism ...

Environmental Policy and Protests – HIS115 – US History Since 1870

By the Progressive Era, battles over environmental policy were being waged in the highest offices of American government, which would shape how the nation ...

50 Years of U.S. Resistance to Environmental Reparations

As environmental awareness grew in the 1960s and 1970s, so too did developing countries' calls for reparations and the resistance of wealthier ...

Environmental and Conservation Movements in Metropolitan America

By the 1930s, many of the Progressive era reform efforts were finally bearing fruit. Air pollution was regulated, access to clean water improved ...

“A New Era for Environmentalists” – In 1985 - Earth Island Institute

The Times article from 25 years ago is more than just an eco-curio. The echoes from a previous generation of green leaders contain important lessons for the ...

Stockholm and the Birth of Environmental Diplomacy

In 1967, Sweden proposed to convene a UN conference on the human environment, arguing that the time was ripe for a serious, substantive ...

Environmental Law & Politics - American Bar Association

Congress enacted nearly two dozen environmental laws over the course of the decade, and it did so with overwhelming bipartisan majorities. The ...

Economic development in an era of global environmentalism

Many scholars as well as the Chinese government have realized that there is only one way out of the impending environmental disaster. That is by adopting a ...

Only One Earth: Stockholm and the Beginning of Modern ...

The 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm marked a watershed in the evolution of humanity's relationship with the earth and global ...

Bad Environmentalism - University of Minnesota Press

"In an era in which environmental crises have been normalized and environmentalists are viewed by many as overly earnest irritants, Nicole Seymour gives us ...

United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, Stockholm ...

The 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm was the first world conference to make the environment a major issue.

Socioeconomic status, time preferences and pro-environmentalism

In this paper, we test whether time preferences partially mediate the relationship between SES and pro-environmentalism in three studies.

Early History of Environmentalism

Environmental politics get off to a rough start in the United States in the 1960s. It is difficult now to imagine a time when the issue of the environment ...

Environmentalism: A Global History (review) - Project MUSE

The period between 1945 and 1962 is designated as the age of ecological innocence. The transformation first took place in the United States and then spread ...

Looking back at 50 years of environmental multilateralism - UNEP

With pollution threatening the future of the world's oceans, UNEP launched its Regional Seas Programme in 1974. At the time, it was an ...

Conservation in the Progressive Era - Library of Congress

Conservation of the nation's resources, putting an end to wasteful uses of raw materials, and the reclamation of large areas of neglected land

State of Europe's environment

... period, according to data reported by EU Member States. Land ... While European environment and climate policies have helped to improve the ...


The Great Gatsby

Novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRbSF6gO78cx31SLBbDfeRcazJoDOx7PlGwdNps2LEgJWoehu4e

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire with an obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.