Environmental revolution

The Environmental Revolution is the ongoing process of switching from pollution-causing technology to efficient and clean technology.

The Environmental Revolution follows other technological revolutions such as the Industrial Revolution and the Digital Revolution.

An example of permaculture utilizing animals and gardens.

History

The environmental movement has its roots in the 19th-century. Robert Underwood Johnson and John Muir founded the Sierra Club in the 1890s after successfully lobbying Congress to create Yosemite National Park.

The modern environmental movement began in the mid to late 1960s. Environmental problems had been illustrated in books such as Silent Spring and there was a back to the land movement, closely associated with the Hippie movement and Counterculture.

By the 1990s, the need for green technology was realized, and the development of Electric cars and Alternative energy slowly began to become mainstream. As of the year 2011, only small progress has so far been made, though the first new electric cars were released to the public in 2010 and environmentalism has gone from being fringe to being completely mainstream, even embraced by conservative institutions such as the Roman Catholic Church.

New Technologies

Aside from electric cars, solar power, geothermal energy, wind power, vertical farming, recycling, Permaculture, Hydroponics, Energy-efficient technology such as fluorescent lighting and LEDs and High speed rail have been either proposed, used to some degree, or as in the case of recycling, have become mainstream over the past 30 years.

See Also

• Environmentalism
• Permaculture