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January 2010
National Radon Action Month
http://www.nsc.org/issues/radon/radonmonth.htm

1 National Environment Policy Act (1969) passed
http://www.epa.gov/oecaerth/basics/nepa.html

2
President Nixon signs a bill lowering the maximum U.S. speed limit to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law

11
Aldo Leopold Born (1887) author of A Sand County Almanac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldo_Leopold

17
Benjamin Franklin born (1706-1790)
http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/signers/franklin.htm

19
The Energy Research and Development Agency is created (1975)
http://www.er.doe.gov/about/History.htm

February 2010
National Wild Bird Feeding Month
http://www.wildbirdcenter.com/content/febnbfmonth

	2	World Wetlands Day http://www.ramsar.org/cda/ramsar/display/main/main.jsp?zn=ramsar&cp=1-63-78_4000_0
	11	Thomas Edison born (1847-1931); great American inventor http://www.thomasedison.com/biography.html
	12	Charles Darwin born (1809-1882); originator of the Theory of Evolution http://www.aboutdarwin.com/
	13	Thomas Robert Malthus born (1976-1834); Father of Modern Physics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Malthus
	15	Galileo Galilei born (1564); “Father of Modern Physics” http://galileo.rice.edu/bio/index.html
	16	Kyoto Protocol in force (2005); international treaty on global warming http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php
	19	Svante Arrhenius born (1859-1927); first to quantify how much the earth is warming due to carbon dioxide emissions in 1896 http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1903/arrhenius-bio.html
	22	George Washington’s birthday (wrong on 2009 calendar)http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/georgewashington/
	23	Woody Guthrie writes "This Land is your Land" (1940) http://woodyguthrie.org/biography/lifetimeline.htm
	23	National Spay Day ( last Tuesday of February) http://www.hsus.org
	25	Howard Clinton Zahniser born (1906) fathered Wilderness Act of 1964 http://www.pawild.org/zahniser.html

March 2010

	1	Yellowstone National Park established (1872); first national park http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/anps/anps_1c.htm
	2	Theodore Seuss Geisel born (1904-1991); known as Dr.Seuss, author of The Lorax http://www.seussville.com/seussentennial/resources1.html
	3	United States Geological Survey established (1879) http://www.usgs.gov/aboutusgs/who_we_are/history.asp
	13	Donella Meadows (author of Limits to growth) is born (1941) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donella_Meadows
	14	Albert Einstein born (1879-1955); Theory of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1921/einstein-bio.html
	14	National Pi Day http://www.piday.org
	15	George Perkins Marsh born (1801-1882); author of Man and Nature http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/MARS1801.htm
	16	Freedom of Information Day http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/wo/washevents/freedomofinfo/freedominformation.cfm
	18	National Biodiesel Day http://www.biodiesel.org/biodiesel_day/
	18	Companies that Care Day (3rd Thursday of March) http://www.companies-that-care.org/l2_day.php
	20	International Earth Day (First Day of spring) http://www.earthsite.org/
	20	National Agriculture Day (First Day of spring) http://www.agday.org/
	21	World Forestry Day http://www.dse.vic.gov.au/DSE/nrenfor.nsf/childdocs/-8E773CD126CA22704A256AA40000EDEE-034EBCC6B1670D984A256AA40011A9F8?open
	22	World Day for Water http://www.worldwaterday.org/
	24	Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (1989) http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/valdez/02.htm
	27	Earth Hour http://www.earthhour2010.com/
	28	Three Mile Island Incident (1979) http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/3mile-isle.html

April 2010
Keep America Beautiful Month
http://www.kab.org/
National Home and Garden Month
http://www.nationalgardenmonth.org/ or http://www.garden.org/

	2	Supreme Court Says EPA Can Regulate Greenhouse Gases (2007) http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june07/scotus_04-02.html
	7	World Health Day http://www.who.int/world-health-day/
	19	National Hanging-Out Day http://www.laundrylist.org/index.php/education/47-education/70-national-hanging-out-day
	20	Dr. Charles David Keeling born (1928-2005); developed the "Keeling Curve" to measure climate change/global warming http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/globalchange/keeling_curve/01.html
	21	John Muir born (1838-1914); fathered National Parks http://www.answers.com/topic/john-muir
	22	Earth Day http://www.earthday.gov
	22	J. Sterling Morton born (1832-1903); founder of Arbor Day http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0500/stories/0506_0100.html
	26	Chernobyl: Reactor 4 Explodes (1986) http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/chernobyl/inf07.htm
	26	John James Audubon born (1785-1851) http://www.audubon.org/nas/jja.html
	30	Arbor Day (Last Friday in April) http://www.arborday.org/arborday/

May 2010
American Wetlands Month
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/awm/
Clean Air Month
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00036900.htm

	8-9	World Migratory Bird Day http://www.worldmigratorybirdday.org/
	21	National Ride Your Bike to Work Day (3rd Friday of May) http://www.bikemonth.org/
	21	Endangered Species Day http://www.nwf.org/endangered/endangeredspeciesday.cfm
	22	International Day for Biological Diversity http://www.un.org/ga/president/57/pages/speeches/statement030522-Biodiversity.htm
	27	Rachel Carson born (1907); author of ‘Silent Spring’ http://www.rachelcarson.org/Biography.aspx
	28	Sierra Club Founded (1892) http://www.sierraclub.org/history/timeline.asp
	31	World No Tobacco Day http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/

June 2010
Professional Wellness Month
http://www.wordsofwellness.com/Professional_Wellness.htm

	5	World Environment Day http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/environment/
	5	National Trails Day (First Saturday every June) http://www.americanhiking.org/NTD.aspx
	12	Carbon Belch Day http://www.carbonbelchday.com/109/pledge.asp?RID=&PID
	14	DDT banned in 48 US states (1972) http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/ddt/01.htm
	15	Snail Darter wins "Tellico Dam vs. Snail Darter" (1977) first court case involving the Endangered Species Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snail_darter
	17	World Day to Combat Desertification http://www.unccd.int/
	22	Cuyahoga River Fire (1969) http://www.case.edu/news/2004/10-04/cuyahoga_fire.htm
	23	James Hansen testifies to congress that Global Warming has arrived (1988) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen

July 2010
National Parks and Recreation Month
http://www.nrpa.org/content/default.aspx?documentId=2145

	1	David Brower born (1912-2000); environmentalist, wilderness advocate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_R._Brower
	4	Publication Katherine Lee Bates song "America the Beautiful" (1895) http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/symbols/americathebeautiful.html
	7	Stephen R. Ptacek flies first solar-powered aircraft across English Channel (1981) http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004537.html
	11	World Population Day http://www.unfpa.org/wpd/
	12	Henry David Thoreau born (1817) http://www.thoreausociety.org/default.htm
	12	R. Buckminster Fuller born (1895-1983); American visionary and inventor http://www.bfi.org/our_programs/who_is_buckminster_fuller
	12	US Fish & Wildlife Service announced Bald Eagle Reclassified (1995) http://www.defenders.org/wildlife_and_habitat/wildlife/bald_eagle.php
	15	Jimmy Carter gives his famous “the moral equivalent of war” speech (1979) http://peaksurfer.blogspot.com/2009/07/malaise-speech.html
	21	Neil Armstrong is the first man to walk on the moon (1969) http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/21/newsid_2635000/2635845.stm

August 2010
National Water Quality Month
http://weather.weatherbug.com/weather-news/weather-reports.html?story=5259

	7	Love Canal declared a Federal Emergency (1978) http://www.eoearth.org/article/Love_Canal,_New_York
	11	Gifford Pinchot born (1865-1946); conservation advocate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gifford_Pinchot
	25	National Park Service is established (1916) http://www.nps.gov/legacy/organic-act.htm
	27	Edwin Drake drills first oil in the U.S. well near Titusville, Pennsylvania (1859) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/drake_hi.html

September 2010
National Organic Harvest Month
http://www.ota.com/news/ohmcalendar.html

	1	Last Passenger Pigeon died (1914) http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/martha.html
	3	Wilderness Act passed (1964) http://laws.fws.gov/lawsdigest/wildrns.html
	3	Loren Eiseley born (1907) http://www.eiseley.org/
	16	World Preservation of the Ozone Day http://www.uneptie.org/Ozonaction/events/ozoneday/index.htm
	17	Park(ing) Day http://www.rebargroup.org/projects/parkingday/index.html
	18	World Water Monitoring Day http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/
	18	International Coastal Cleanup Day (3rd Saturday in Sept) http://www.oceanconservancy.org/site/PageServer?pagename=icc_home
	20	Upton Sinclair born (1878-1968); author of The Jungle http://www.ssa.gov/history/sinclair.html
	20-26	National Pollution Prevention Week (3rd full week in Sept, Mon-Sun) http://www.p2.org
	22	World Car Free Day http://www.worldcarfree.net/wcfd/
	25	National Public Lands Day (Last Saturday in Sept) http://www.publiclandsday.org/
	26	John Chapman born (1774-1845); known as Johnny Appleseed http://www.swedenborg.org/jappleseed/history.html
	27	Publication and First Release of Silent Spring (1962) http://www.rachelcarson.org/

October 2010
Energy Awareness Month
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=energy_awareness.bus_energy_awareness

	1	First Production of the Model T (1908) http://www.hfmgv.org/exhibits/showroom/1908/model.t.html
	4	World Habitat Day (First Monday in October) http://www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=490
	5	Greenpeace founded (1971) in Vancouver, BC http://www.greenpeace.org/international/
	6	International Walk to School Day http://www.walktoschool-usa.org/
	10	Powers of Ten Day http://www.powersof10.com/index.php?mod=ten_day
	11	Toxic Substances Control Act signed (1976) http://www.epa.gov/lawsregs/laws/tsca.html http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/tsca/03.htm
	15	National Historic Preservation Act passed (1966) http://www.nps.gov
	16	OPEC announces Oil Embargo (1973) http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1967to1991_oilembargo_result.php
	21	Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act signed (1972) http://www.epa.gov/Compliance/civil/fifra/fifraenfstatreq.html
	23	Make A Difference Day (fourth Saturday in October) http://usaweekend.com/diffday/index.html
	27	Teddy Roosevelt born (1858) http://www.americanpresident.org/history/theodoreroosevelt/

November 2010

	1	McDonald’s ends foam packaging (1990) http://innovation.edf.org//page.cfm?tagID=30747
	6	International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/environment_war/
	11	World Usability Day http://www.worldusabilityday.org/
	13	Amory Lovins (analyst of and advocate for a "soft energy path") born (1947) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory_Lovins
	15	America Recycles Day http://www.nrc-recycle.org/americarecycles.aspx
	15	Former President George H.W. Bush Signs P2 Act (1990) http://www.epa.gov/p2/pubs/p2policy/act1990.htm
	22	Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement signed by US and Canada (1972) http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/greatlakes/default.asp?lang=En&n=FD65DFE5-1
	26	Buy Nothing Day (Friday after Thanksgiving) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day

December 2010

	2	The U.S. Environmental Protections Agency begins Operations (1970) http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/epa/15c.htm
	2	Alaska Lands Act (setting aside 104 million acres) signed 1980 http://www.alaskacoalition.org/history_public_lands.htm
	3	Bhopal Union Carbide (1984) http://www.bhopal.com/chrono.htm
	5	Great Smog of 1952 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2545759.stm
	11	Brundtland Commission defines "sustainability" (1987) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brundtland_Commission http://oregonfuture.oregonstate.edu/part1/pf1_03.html
	16	World Oil Production Peaked (2005) http://www.princeton.edu/hubbert/current-events.html
	16	Safe Drinking Water Act signed (1974) http://www.epa.gov/safewater/sdwa/index.html
	28	Endangered Species Act signed (1973) http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/laws/esa.htm

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