Earth Days.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Stone, Robert, 1958- director, producer. .

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), publisher.

Series:

Academic Video Online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law--United States.

Environmental law.

Environmental policy--United States--History.

Environmental policy.

Environmental protection--United States.

Environmental protection.

Genre:

Documentary television programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 minutes)

Place of Publication:

Arlington, VA : Public Broadcasting Service, 2009.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

In December 1969, Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson hired 25-year-old Denis Hayes to organize a national teach-in about the environment. Just four months later, on April 22, more than 20 million Americans across the country participated in celebrations and demonstrations - the largest in American history - demanding political action to protect the environment. Their grassroots call to action led to groundbreaking national legislation and created a new consciousness about the fragility of the earth's resources. The collective strength of the public's outcry gave Washington a mandate for environmental action. In the years that followed, Congress was flooded with environmental legislation. Between 1972 and 1974, Congress passed the Clean Water Act, Marine Mammal Protection Act, Coastal Zone Management Act, Endangered Species Act, Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act, Forest and Rangeland Renewable Resources Planning Act, and the Safe Drinking Water Act. Earth Days looks at the road to April 22, 1970, to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement through the extraordinary stories of the era's pioneers - among them Former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, biologist/Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich, Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, Apollo Nine astronaut Rusty Schweickart, and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins. Earth Days is a meditation on man's complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements and missed opportunities of groundbreaking eco-activism.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed June 3, 2020).

OCLC:

1158211399

Publisher Number:

ASP4684717/marc