Timeline by https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i Environmental History en-us 2016-10-04 18:55:27 UTC 2017-05-17 11:58:41 UTC hello@padlet.com s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128940562
  • 1739 — Benjamin Franklin and neighbors petition Pennsylvania Assembly to stop waste dumping and remove tanneries from Philadelphia's commercial district. Foul smell, lower property values, disease and interference with fire fighting are cited. The industries complain that their rights are being violated, but Franklin argues for public rights. Franklin and the environmentalists win a symbolic battle but the dumping goes on.

    • ]]>     2016-10-06 18:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128940562     s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128942211 Benjamin Franklin had a big impact on the environment. He wanted to stop wastes dumps and remove tanneries from Philadelphia's commercial district. lthough his plan did not work he made people understand what they are doing.]]> 2016-10-06 18:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128942211 s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128943928 1883 — Francis Galton coins the still controversial concept of eugenics in his book Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development.1890 — Yosemite National Park Bill, established the Yosemite and  Sequoia National Parks in California.1891 — Oscar Baumann, Austrian explorer of East Africa, publishes an eye-witness account of the extreme drought period 1883-1902 called Emutai by the Maasai.

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  • 1964 — Norman Borlaug takes position as the director of the International Wheat Improvement Program in Texcoco, Mexico. The program leads to the Green Revolution.

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  • 1609 — Hugo Grotius  publishes emberum mara  (The Free Sea) with arguments for the new principle that the sea was international territory and all nations were free to use it for seafaring trade. The ensuing debate had the British and France claim soveriety over territorial waters to the distance within which cannon range could effectively protect it, the three mile (5 km) limit.

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  • 1748 — Jared Eliot, clergyman and physician, writes Essays on Field Husbandry in New England promoting soil conservation.
  • 1762 to 1769 — Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal waste  and water pollution.

    • ]]>     2016-10-06 18:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128947248     s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128947553 1862 — John Ruskin publishes Unto This Last, which contains a proto-environmental indictment of the effects of unrestricted industrial expansion on both human beings and the natural world. The book influences Mahatma Gandhi, William Morris[10] andPatrick Geddes]]> 2016-10-06 18:50:31 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128947553 s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128947678
  • 1864 —George Perkins Marsh  publishes Man and nature or Physical Geography as Modified by human action (revised 1874 as The Earth as Modified by Human Action), the first systematic analysis of humanity's destructive impact on the natural environmentand a work which becomes (in Lewis Mumford's words) "the fountain-head of the conservation movement."

    • ]]>     2016-10-06 18:50:52 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128947678     s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128947793 1869 — Samuel Bowles publishes Our New West. Records of Travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean, an influential traveller's account of the wilds and peoples of the West, in which he advocates preservation of other scenic areas such asNiagara Falls and the Adirondacks]]> 2016-10-06 18:51:16 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128947793 s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128948277
  • 1892 — John Muir, (1838–1914), founded the Sierra Club.

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    — The National Conservation Commission, appointed in June by President Roosevelt.



    ]]>     2016-10-06 18:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128948480     Aldo Leopold s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128952575 Following a transfer to Madison, Wisconsin in 1924, Leopold continued his investigations into ecology and the philosophy of conservation, and in 1933 published the first textbook in the field of wildlife management. Later that year he accepted a new chair in game management – a first for the University of Wisconsin and the nation.]]> 2016-10-06 19:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128952575 Theodore roseavelt   s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128952836 he has a huge impact on the world because of him we have national parks like yellow stone and also founded ways of saving the environment.]]> 2016-10-06 19:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128952836 Gaylord Nelson s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128953031  his experience as the "Conservation Governor" of Wisconsin. In 1969, his idea of a "national day for the environment" — the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 — brought significant ]]> 2016-10-06 19:07:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128953031 Henry david thoreau s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128953326 He was a lifelong abolitionist, delivering lectures that attacked the fugitive slave law while praising the writings of Wendell Phillips and defending abolitionist John Brown .]]> 2016-10-06 19:08:08 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128953326 Rachel Carson  s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128953616 l. At the urging of her undergraduate biology mentor Mary Scott Skinker, she settled for a temporary position with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries , writing radio copy for a series of weekly educational broadcasts entitled Romance Under the Waters. The series of fifty-two seven-minute programs focused on aquatic life and was intended to generate public interest in fish biology and in the work of the bureau]]> 2016-10-06 19:08:56 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128953616 s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128955769 Francis Galton taught about droughts and showed how how much of an impact it has on the environment]]> 2016-10-06 19:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128955769 s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128956700 Teaches about wheat and tobacco and how it affects the environment.]]> 2016-10-06 19:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128956700 s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128959117 He wants to protect the seas from pollution.]]> 2016-10-06 19:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128959117 s100672 https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128959701 Compose of foods and use the soil more]]> 2016-10-06 19:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/s100672/s03itkqb955i/wish/128959701