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by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882 Beauty A nobler want of man is served by nature, namely, the love of Beauty. The ancient Greeks...

by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882 Commodity Whoever considers the final cause of the world, will discern a multitude of uses that...

by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882 Nature To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not...

by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 – 1882 In 1832, Emerson resigned his position as minister of Boston’s Old North Church. He traveled in...

February 16, 2005 Kyoto Protocol comes into effect. Almost all countries in the world are now pledged to reduce the emission of gasses...

December 18, 1999 Julia Butterfly Hill came down from Luna after concluding a deal with Pacific Lumber/Maxxam Corporation to save the...

September 17, 1998 David “Gypsy” Chain was killed by a tree felled by employees of Pacific Lumber/Maxxam Corporation. Chain was in the...

December 10, 1997 A 23-year-old woman named Julia Butterfly Hill climbed into a 55-meter (180 foot) tall California Coast Redwood tree....

1994 Unocal diluent spill discovered. An 8.5 million gallon spill of diluent was discovered at Unocal’s Guadalupe oil field. This is the...

September 28, 1994 Mono Lake — court decided minimum stream flows must be maintained.

March 24, 1989

April 26, 1986 The Number Four reactor at Chernobyl suffered a disastrous explosion and fire. Thirty-one people died in the days after...

1980 Congress passed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, designating over 100 million acres of parks, wildlife refuges,...

March 28, 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear power plant almost had a meltdown, giving the nuclear power industry a permanent black eye.

August, 1978 President Carter declared an emergency at Love Canal. The Love Canal scandal alerted the country to the long-term, hidden...

June 15, 1977 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 1973 Endangered Species Act and stopped construction of the Tellico Dam. In 1975, Law...

December 28, 1973 Endangered Species Act passed. In the famous decision of 1977 (see below) the Supreme Court validated the principles of...

1972 DDT banned in US

1972 Water Pollution Control Act passed over President Nixon’s veto. The final tally was overwhelming: 52 to 12 in the Senate, 247 to 23...

April 22, 1970