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The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, and voyage of spiritual discovery.

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provided that any adult citizen, or intended citizen, who had never borne arms against the U.S. government could claim 160 acres of surveyed government land. Claimants were required to “improve” the plot by building a dwelling and cultivating the land.

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1905 U.S. forest service founded, Gifford Pinchot *

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1905 U.S. forest service founded, Gifford Pinchot *

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administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands. The Forest Service manages 193 million acres of land

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Considered by many to be the father of wildlife ecology and the United States’ wilderness system. Called for an ethical, caring relationship between people and nature.

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The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitat.

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This law gives the President of the United States the authority to, by presidential proclamation, create national monuments from federal lands to protect significant natural, cultural, or scientific features

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a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies

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provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska) to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use.

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a severe air-pollution event that affected the British capital of London in early December 1952. A period of unusually cold weather, combined with an anticyclone and windless conditions, collected airborne pollutants—mostly arising from the use of coal—to form a thick layer of smog over the city.

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1962 Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson

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1962 Silent Spring published by Rachel Carson

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1969 Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire *

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1969 Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, caught fire *

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At least 13 fires have been reported on the Cuyahoga River, the first occurring in 1868. The largest river fire, in 1952, caused over $1 million in damage to boats, a bridge, and a riverfront office building

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resulted in a major shift in the federal government's role in air pollution control. This legislation authorized the development of comprehensive federal and state regulations to limit emissions from both stationary (industrial) sources and mobile sources.

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1972 FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act)* 

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1972 FIFRA (Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act)* 

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set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment

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Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation"

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the price of oil had risen nearly 300%, from US$3 per barrel to nearly $12 globally; US prices were significantly higher. The embargo caused an oil crisis, or "shock", with many short- and long-term effects on global politics and the global economy

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1976:  RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)*

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1976:  RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)*

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Its objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters

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1977:  Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act* 

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1977:  Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act* 

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regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.

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landfill that became the site of an enormous environmental disaster in the 1970s. Decades of dumping toxic chemicals harmed the health of hundreds of residents;

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a partial meltdown of reactor number 2 of Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, near Harrisburg, and subsequent radiation leak that occurred on March 28, 1979. It is the most significant accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history

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1980: CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act AKA: Superfund)*

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1980: CERCLA (Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation & Liability Act AKA: Superfund)*

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designed to investigate and clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances. There are 40000 sites

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It is considered among the world's worst industrial disasters. Over 500,000 people were exposed to methyl isocyanate gas. The highly toxic substance made its way into and around the small towns located near the plant.

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the worst nuclear disaster in history, massive radiation was spread and 68000 had to be evacuated.

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treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion.

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an oil tanker owned by Exxon that struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef, west of Alaska. It spilled 10.8 million US gallons of crude oil over the next few days. It is considered the worst oil spill worldwide in terms of damage to the environment.

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1999:  World population hits 6 billion. 

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1999:  World population hits 6 billion. 

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A treaty which commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and it is extremely likely that human-made CO2 emissions have predominantly caused it.

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was an industrial disaster that began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered to be the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.
4.9 million oil spills

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2011: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

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2011: Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster