The Greening of America: The Environmental Movement

Greening America: The Environmental Movement

1) A Post-War Shift 1950-70

-- Rachel Carson and a Silent Spring

-- From Conservation to Preservation (1950s)

-- Preservationists

-- Post-War Changes-- From Necessities to Conveniences to Amenities

--Affluence, Education, and Health

-- Bodega Bay: The New Environmentalism

-- Sixties Changes

-- Militance

-- Anti-Authoritarian & Anti-Corporate

-- Decentralization

-- National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

-- Earth Day: April 1970

2) Issues in the Seventies & Eighties

-- A New Agenda

-- Wilderness

-- Pollution

-- Energy

-- The Doomsday Decade

-- The Antinuclear Movement and Three Mile Island

-- The Environmental Backlash

-- Reagan and James Watt

-- Radical Environmental Movements

-- Earth First!