Environmental History
By Mrs. Michelle Hilbert
April 2012
What is special about April 22?
April 22 is EARTH DAY
Earth Day was created by US
Senator Gaylord Nelson
http://www.nelsonearthday.net/nelson/index.htm
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://media.treehugger.com/
Why did Senator Nelson
create Earth Day?
1969 Oil Spill off the coast Santa Barbara,
California
http://www.rense.com/general90/barb.htm
Wildlife was affected by the spill
and people came to help.
http://www.rense.com/general90/barb.htm
Denis Hayes
-Environmental Activist
-Coordinator for the first
Earth Day in 1970
-Founded the Earth Day
network and spread it to
180 Nations
-Believes in Solar Power
-Was the Head of the
National Renewable
Energy Laboratory
-Currently a leader in
environmental and
energy policy
http://ecosociable.com/452/mr-denis-hayes-earths-hero/
Pete McCloskey
- U.S. Politician
- Lives in California
- Co-Chair of the first Earth
Day in 1970
- Republican nomination for
president in 1972, beat
by Nixon
- Co-author of 1973
Endangered Species Act
http://www.buyingofthepresident.org/index.php/interviews/paul_n_pete_mccloskey_jr/
The Endangered Species Act of
1973
Hunting
Global Warming
Deforestation
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/12/photogalleries/global_warming/photo7.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation
http://www.ehow.com/info_8180115_ivory-tusks-used.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon
Animals saved by The
Endangered Species Act of 1973
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/bald-eagle/
http://sites.law.lsu.edu/els
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/peregrine-falcon/
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/wolf/
Animals saved by The
Endangered Species Act of 1973
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/gray-whale/
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/grizzly-bear/
http://seapics.com/gallery/Mammalia/Carnivora/Caniformia-Canoidea/MustelidaeMustelids/Lutrinae/sea-otters/southern-sea-otter.html
http://true-wildlife.blogspot.com/2010/11/red-wolf.html
Others who care about the Earth
Ben
Franklin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin
Others who care about the Earth
George
Washington
Carver
http://mda.mo.gov/gwc.php
We cannot forget the ladies!
Alice
Hamilton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hamilton
We cannot forget the ladies!
Rachel
Carson
http://www.nndb.com/people/843/000031750/
John Muir
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/yosemite.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir
The First Earth Day
http://onlytheblogknowsbrooklyn.typepad.com/only_the_blog_knows_brook/2006/04/april_22_1970_t.html
http://www.magic-city-news.com/Editor_s_Desk_34/Ira_Einhorn_Earth_Day_s_Dirty_Secret_57095709.shtml
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x194049
Environmental Protection Agency
-Created
December 2,
1970
-Proposed by President
Nixon
-Job is to protect
human health and the
environment
-Write laws
-Enforce laws
-Employs 17,000
people
Clean Air Act
http://greenheritagenews.com/fines-levied-for-clean-air-violations-reminder-of-need-for-better-environmentalregulation/
http://www.sofreshandsogreen.com/2011/02/15/what-is-the-clean-air-act-and-what-does-it-do/
Now back to our question
After listening to our
THANKS, please click here
to watch a short video and
THINK about what you will
do to make Earth Day
EVERYDAY!
Helpful Websites
 http://www.rense.com/general90/barb.htm
 http://www.earthday.org/2012
 http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement
 http://www.environmentalhistory.org/
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_McCloskey
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Hayes
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Nelson
 http://www.telemetrix.com/pipeline/oil.htm
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endangered_Species_Act
 http://www.buzzle.com/articles/extinct-animals-in-the-last100-years.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation