From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Ecology / Conservation / Planning Outline

The Quaternary Period, Including the Ice Age, Begins
(Circa 2,500,000 BCE)

The Holocene Interglacial Period Begins
(Circa 10,000 BCE)

Attack on Air Pollution
(1661)

Argument for Forest Management
(1664)

First Book Entirely Devoted to Marine Science and First Oceanographic Study of a Single Region
(1725)

Discovery that Growing Plants Restore Air Vitiated by Combustion or Respiration
(1772)

The First Textbook on Zoogeography
(1777)

Discovery of Photosynthesis
(1779)

The First Patent for Paper Recycling
(April 28, 1800)

The First Book Printed on Recycled Paper
(1801)

Written From A Viewpoint in Harmony With the Modern Ecology Movement
(1802 – 1818)

The Carbon Content of Soil is Produced by Vegetation
(1804)

Geographical-Ecological Plant Associations
(1805)

Animal Ecology
(1824)

First Description of the Greenhouse Effect
(1824)

Theory of the Ice Age; Global Cooling and Warming
(1834 – 1841)

Mathematical Model of a Continuously Growing Population
(1838)

Beginning of the American Conservation Movement
(1846)

Marsh's First Publication on Ecology
(September 30, 1847)

"In Wildness is the Preservation of the World."
(1851)

First Widely Read Textbook of Oceanography and Atmospherics
(1855)

Forest Ecology
(1860)

Fountainhead of the Conservation Movement
(1864)

The Philosophical Justification for Public Preservation of Great Natural Scenery
(1865)

The Wallace Line
(1869)

Forest and Stream Magazine
(1873)

The First Comprehensive World-Wide Study of Zoogeography
(1876)

Pioneering Study of Community Ecology
(1877)

Formation of the National Audubon Society
(1886)

Aquatic Ecosystem Science
(1887)

77 Windmill Factories Employ 1,100 Workers in the U.S.
(1889)

The Sierra Club
(May 28, 1892)

The First to Quantify the Impact of Carbon Dioxide on the Greenhouse Effect
(1896)

The Garden City Movement
(1898)

The First Prediction of the Possibility of Man-Made Global Warming
(1908)

Management of Water Pollution
(1911)

Our Vanishing Wild Life
(1913)

Plant Succession
(1916)

The Basic Equations for Two-Species Interactions
(1926)

Animal Ecology
(1927)

Hundreds of Thousands of Wind Turbines Power Farms in the U.S.
(Circa 1930 – 1945)

Foundation of The Wilderness Society
(January 21, 1935)

DDT
(1939)

The Birth of Ecosystem Ecology
(1942)

Classic of the Environmental Movement
(1949)

The First Routine Real-Time Numerical Weather Forecasting
(December 1954)

Proving the Feasibility of Weather Prediction by Numerical Process
(1956)

"Silent Spring"
(1962)

The Theory of "Island" Biogeography
(1967)

The Endangered Species Act of 1973
(December 28, 1973)

The Web's First and Longest Continuously Running Blog
(1993)

The Film Avatar and Our Vision of Virtual Reality
(December 10, 2009)