ESS #1

  • Friends of the Earth

    Environmental group that pressures people to have a bold voice and vouch for our earth
    (Shelfit Textbook)
  • Big Yellow Taxi

    The song Big Yellow Taxi was Joni Mitchell song release based on her ecocentric view point of the ecosystem
  • Hans Cosmas Ngoteya

    A conservationist who started an organiztion to help peoplte and wildlife to realize that co-existing isnt a bad thing and we need to lern how to live this way
    (Textbook)
  • Clean Air Act

    The U.S government crafted the Clean air act to protect public health of civilians from different types of air pollution this was a big turning moment because this was the first time the government finally acknowledge that pollution was an issue
  • The Bhopal Disaster

    The Bhopal disaster was a gas leak of (methyl isocyanate) that was washed out of a plant pesticide facility and had a chemical reaction that killed 15,000-20000
    https://www.environmentandsociety.org/tools/keywords/bhopal-chemical-disaster
  • The Chernobyl Disaster

    The Chernobyl Disaster was a disaster was an electrical power surge that caused created a chemical explosion
  • James Hansen

    James was a NASA and studied how gases affect the Earth’s climate. he crafted models to show the impacts that global warming is having on our atmosphere and helped come up with options to stop it.
  • Julia "Butterfly" Hill -Tree Sit

    The Julia Butterfly tree sit was an act of political protest to protect an ancient redwood tree from logging companies
    (Slides)
  • Dame Ellen MacArthur

    She was the first sailor to sail around the world and 71 days and health come up with a linear way to dispose of materials and keep our economy clean.
  • An inconvenient truth

    A movie released to highlight and scare audience into realizing the world we are now living in about global warming.
    (slides)
    (https://www.britannica.com/topic/An-Inconvenient-Truth)
  • The Harambe Incident

    The Harambe incident was a shooting of a 17 year old gorilla after a 3 year old boy fell into the gorillas enclosure.
    https://www.nonhumanrights.org/blog/harambe/
  • Greta Thunberg- TED talk for the climate

    Greta's TED talk was a ted talk to share her view and needs to take action on the climate and how we are currently treating it.
    (https://www.rev.com/transcripts/greta-thunberg-ted-talk-transcript-school-strike-for-climate#:~:text=Climate%20activist%20Greta%20Thunberg%20gave,%E2%80%9D%20on%20December%2012%2C%202018.) (slides)