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george p marsh
Georg P MarshPublished one hundred years before the ecology movement of the 1960s, Marsh's theories recognized human impact on the environment and have since influenced ecologists throughout the world. A skilled diplomat, Marsh is also acknowledged for his successful posts as ambassador to both Turkey and Italy. -
John Muir
Johm MuirScottish-born American naturalist, writer, and advocate of U.S. forest conservation, who was largely responsible for the establishment of Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park, which are located in California -
Theodore Roosevelt
he designated 150 National Forests, the first 51 Federal Bird Reservations, 5 National Parks, the first 18 National Monuments, the first 4 National Game Preserves, and the first 21 Reclamation Projects. Altogether, in the seven-and-one-half years he was in office, he provided federal protection for almost 230 million acres, a land area equivalent to that of all the East coast states from Maine to Florida. -
Aldo Leopold
In 1924 the country’s first national wilderness area (Gila Wilderness Area in New Mexico) was created at Leopold’s urging. From 1933 to 1948 he taught at the University of Wisconsin. A fervent campaigner for the preservation of wildlife and wilderness areas, he was a director of the Audubon Society from 1935 and became a founder of the Wilderness Society in the same year. His Game Management (1933) was followed in 1949 by the posthumous A Sand County Almanac, -
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson , Author , Published a book which talked about the harmfulness of ddt and pesticides . The reading eventually started the governemnt to change lawas and for industries to use alternative ways to grow crops. -
Eugene and Howard Odum
The Crafoord Prize 1987 of 1.7 milj. SEK (250 000 USD) is jointly awarded to Professor Eugene P. Odum, University of Georgia, USA and Professor Howard T. Odum, University of Florida, USA for their pioneering contributions within the field of ecosystem ecology. Their fundamental findings have strongly promoted our understanding of the dynamics of natural systems and formed a scientific base for the long-term exploitation of the natural resources including pollution abatement. -
James Love
He invented the electron capture detector, a tool for measuring man-made chemicals in minute quantities. That machine was used in the 1950s to establish that pesticides had left chemical contamination in plants and animals on every continent, even in Antarctic penguins and American mother's milk. As a result, the pesticide DDT was eventually banned. Lovelock's invention later brought to light the environmental contamination caused by chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). -
Edward O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson, more commonly known as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist who is widely considered to be the world’s leading authority on ants. One of the leading figures in sociobiology, he is often dubbed as “the father of sociobiology”.A notable author and researcher, Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize twice. He is also noted for his environmental advocacy, and his secular-humanist and deist ideas related to religious and ethical subjects -
Paul and Anne Ehrlich
Anne and Paul Ehrlich are leading authorities on the issue of population and the environment. They have been an intellectual force whose works have had an unparalleled impact on the field of environmental science and policy. For more than a quarter of a century, they have systematically traced environmental deterioration to its root causes, projected the probable consequences of continued deterioration and proposed and analyzed the relative merits of alternative solutions. The Ehrlichs have alwa -
Amory Lovins
an American consultant experimental physicist and 1993 MacArthur Fellow, has been active at the nexus of energy, resources, economy, environment, development, and security in more than 50 countries for over 40 years, including 14 years based in England. He is widely considered among the world’s leading authorities on energy—especially its efficient use and sustainable supply—and a fertile innovator in integrative design and in superefficient buildings, factories, and vehicles. -
Lois Gibbs
Lois Gibbs is a leading activist in defending the public from the dangers of toxic waste. In 1978, she discovered that her neighborhood of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, New York, was built on top of 21,000 tons of hazardous chemical waste. Faced with the health threat to her family and community, Gibbs transformed from a shy housewife to the antipollution activist now known as the "mother of Superfund." Superfund, or the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCL
