https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw en-us 2021-08-19 17:38:54 UTC 2021-08-31 16:50:26 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f331.png 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701156733 2021-08-27 16:59:54 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701156733 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701157140 ----------------------------------]]> 2021-08-27 17:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701157140 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701157901 2021-08-27 17:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701157901 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701159887 Walden is a collection of essays written by Thoreau as he tried to live simply and isolated in a cabin. It is the beginnings of the transcendentalism movement and some of the first displays of environmental conciousness.]]> 2021-08-27 17:01:56 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701159887 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701160130 This act gave citizens 160 acres of land in the central and western United States as long as they lived on and improved it. It is some of the first legislation aimed at developing the new western territories gained.]]> 2021-08-27 17:02:07 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701160130 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701160365 2021-08-27 17:02:19 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701160365 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701160730 Gifford Pinchot was the first head of the U. S. forest service and the fourth chief of the U. S. division of forestry. His efforts led to the founding of the U. S. forest service that manages national forests and grasslands.]]> 2021-08-27 17:02:35 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701160730 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701161053 He is the author of A Sand County Almanac and was a prominent naturalist, scientist, ecologist, conversationalist, and environmentalist.]]> 2021-08-27 17:02:47 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701161053 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701161625 2021-08-27 17:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701161625 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701161863 This act was the first U. S. law to provide protection for locations deemed natural and cultural resources. It can be seen as the beginnings of the creation of National Parks.]]> 2021-08-27 17:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701161863 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701162069 2021-08-27 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701162069 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701162269 The Southern Plains region of the United States that was struck by droughts in the 1930s were often called the "dust bowl" for their frequent and severe dust storms.]]> 2021-08-27 17:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701162269 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701162574 This act was signed into effect by FDR to end open grazing on public lands. It created the Division of Grazing in the Department of Interior to regulate nearly 80 million acres of federal lands.]]> 2021-08-27 17:03:49 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701162574 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701162770 The Great Smog of 1952 was a condition of heavy pollution in London. A rise in air pollutants due to an increase in coal consumption combined with low wind conditions led to a thick smog covering across the city of London.]]> 2021-08-27 17:03:58 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701162770 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701163275 2021-08-27 17:04:12 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701163275 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701163690 The level of pollution of the Cuyahoga River was so great that the contaminants actually caught fire and burned up to five stories tall.]]> 2021-08-27 17:04:23 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701163690 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701163932 2021-08-27 17:04:32 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701163932 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701164159 This act allowed the federal and state governments to place regulations on mobile sources of emissions like cars and stationary sources of emissions like factories.]]> 2021-08-27 17:04:42 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701164159 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701164443 This act was passed to regulate the use of different types of pesticides in the U. S. after their harmful health effects were discovered.]]> 2021-08-27 17:04:55 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701164443 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701164891 Encouraged the conservation of ecosystems that were deemed essential for the survival of threatened and endangered species of wildlife.]]> 2021-08-27 17:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701164891 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701165110 The OPEC enacted an embargo on the U. S. and other allies for their assistance of Israel during current conflicts. This embargo placed a strain on the U. S. economy and launched a string of U. S. efforts to become less dependent on foreign oil.]]> 2021-08-27 17:05:21 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701165110 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701165372 This act give the Environmental Protection Agency authority to regulate the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste.]]> 2021-08-27 17:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701165372 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701165601 This act made it unlawful for anyone to dump pollutants into the waters of the U. S. ]]> 2021-08-27 17:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701165601 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701165836 This act serves as the primary law for regulation of the environmental effects of coal mining in the U. S.]]> 2021-08-27 17:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701165836 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701166038 After a failed economic endeavor, Love Canal became a chemical dumping ground. Later, the land was sold to and developed by the city into a working class community, until the chemical tanks burst and began leaking poisonous chemicals into the soil underneath the community.]]> 2021-08-27 17:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701166038 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701166237 The three mile nuclear incident was the biggest commercial nuclear power plant meltdown in U. S. history. Thankfully, no health effects were recorded with plant workers or the public.]]> 2021-08-27 17:06:09 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701166237 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701169810 Commonly referred to as the federal Superfund, the CERCLA created a fund to be used to clean up uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous-waste sites as well as accidents or emergency releases like oil spills.]]> 2021-08-27 17:08:34 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701169810 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701170177 On the night of December 2-3, an industrial gas leak occured at a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Over 2,259 individuals died as a result of the leak. ]]> 2021-08-27 17:08:47 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701170177 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701170667 The No. 4 reactor of a nuclear power plant near Pripyat in present day Ukraine experienced a nuclear chain reaction. All citizens within a 30 km radius of the plant eventually had to be evacuated due to the spread of nuclear contaminants.]]> 2021-08-27 17:09:07 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701170667 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701171632 This is a global agreement, signed in 1987, to reduce or eliminate the production and use of products that harm the ozone layer of the atmosphere. It was the first treaty to receive universal ratification around the globe.]]> 2021-08-27 17:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701171632 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701171893 This man made disaster occurred when the Exxon Valdez oil tanker spilled millions of gallons of crude oil into the waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound. This spill killed hundreds of thousands of local wildlife and was at the time the larges oil spill in U. S. history.]]> 2021-08-27 17:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701171893 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701172138 2021-08-27 17:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701172138 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701172355 The Kyoto Protocol created the UNFCCC to hold countries to commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to reach certain set targets. It was initially created in 1997 and ratified in 2005.]]> 2021-08-27 17:10:17 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701172355 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701173057 This disaster is the largest oil spill in human history. It began after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig and over 4.9 million barrels of oil were estimated to have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico.]]> 2021-08-27 17:10:42 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701173057 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701173287 2021-08-27 17:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701173287 0237331 https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701173604 2021-08-27 17:11:03 UTC https://padlet.com/0237331/7p5jor5i996udouw/wish/1701173604