List of environmental contributors
From Environmental Technology
This is a list of persons vital in some way of making a contribution toward the protection of the environment. Some where active in conservation, others where active in creating public awareness.
- Ansel Adams - (1902-1984) - photographer
- Benjamin Franklin - (1706-1790) - fought against water pollution
- John James Audubon - (1785-1851) - painter
- George Perkins March - (1801-1882) - farmer, linguist
- Gifford Pinchot - (1865-1946) - 1st head of US Forest Service
- George Washington Carver - (1865-1943) - renewable bioenergy systems
- Theodore Roosevelt - (1858-1919) - US president
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt - (1882-1945) - US president
- John Muir - (1838-1914) - conservationist, founded Sierra Club
- Aldo Leopold - (1886-1948) - biologist
- Wallace Stegner - (1909-1993) - writer
- Rachel Carson - (1907-1964) - writer
- Paul Ehrlich - (1854-1915) - writer
- Denis Hayes - (1944- ) - founded Earth Day
- Gaylord Nelson - (1916-2005) - senator, founded Earth Day