https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi en-us 2020-09-22 20:58:52 UTC 2020-09-29 23:47:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f300.png 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770061542 2020-09-22 21:01:14 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770061542 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770062625 2020-09-22 21:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770062625 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770063770 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.]]> 2020-09-22 21:02:17 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770063770 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770064514  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.]]> 2020-09-22 21:02:37 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770064514 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770064899 administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands. The Forest Service manages 193 million acres of land]]> 2020-09-22 21:02:49 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770064899 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770066152 2020-09-22 21:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770066152 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770067730 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.]]> 2020-09-22 21:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770067730 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770068435 The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation of birds and their habitat. ]]> 2020-09-22 21:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770068435 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770069480 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]]> 2020-09-22 21:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770069480 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770070129 2020-09-22 21:05:15 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770070129 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770071192 a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies]]> 2020-09-22 21:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770071192 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770071780 provides for the regulation of grazing on the public lands (excluding Alaska) to improve rangeland conditions and regulate their use.]]> 2020-09-22 21:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/770071780 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788095989 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.]]> 2020-09-29 14:44:30 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788095989 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788097775 2020-09-29 14:44:53 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788097775 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788099346 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]]> 2020-09-29 14:45:14 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788099346 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788101243 2020-09-29 14:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788101243 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788102358 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.]]> 2020-09-29 14:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788102358 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788103165 set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators, consumers, and the environment]]> 2020-09-29 14:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788103165 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788105314 Designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction as a "consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation"]]> 2020-09-29 14:46:29 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788105314 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788105946 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]]> 2020-09-29 14:46:37 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788105946 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788106700 2020-09-29 14:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788106700 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788107164 Its objective is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the nation's waters]]> 2020-09-29 14:46:52 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788107164 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788107878  regulates the environmental effects of coal mining in the United States.]]> 2020-09-29 14:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788107878 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788108547 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;]]> 2020-09-29 14:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788108547 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788109228 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]]> 2020-09-29 14:47:17 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788109228 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788110012 designed to investigate and clean up sites contaminated with hazardous substances. There are 40000 sites]]> 2020-09-29 14:47:27 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788110012 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788110695 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.]]> 2020-09-29 14:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788110695 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788111177 the worst nuclear disaster in history, massive radiation was spread and 68000 had to be evacuated.]]> 2020-09-29 14:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788111177 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788111752  treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. ]]> 2020-09-29 14:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788111752 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788112363 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.]]> 2020-09-29 14:47:57 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788112363 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788112937 2020-09-29 14:48:05 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788112937 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788114014 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. ]]> 2020-09-29 14:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788114014 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788114029 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]]> 2020-09-29 14:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788114029 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788115182 2020-09-29 14:48:33 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788115182 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788115817 2020-09-29 14:48:41 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/788115817 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789873455 2020-09-29 23:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789873455 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789877975 2020-09-29 23:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789877975 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789888934 2020-09-29 23:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789888934 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789891556 2020-09-29 23:40:49 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789891556 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789898881 2020-09-29 23:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789898881 020928 https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789900115 2020-09-29 23:47:20 UTC https://padlet.com/020928/cx0mgyblyf893dmi/wish/789900115