TIMELINE

1666 - The shogun of Japan, noticing the damage created by deforestation, urges his citizens to plant tree seedlings to avoid erosion and flooding.

1739 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin passed a law similar to the Parisian one, removing tanneries and disallowing the dumping of waste in the city.

1863 - The first large-scale, modern environmental laws came in the form of the British Alkali Acts, passed in , to regulate the deleterious air pollution given off by the Leblanc process used to produce soda ash. Environmentalism grew out of the amenity movement, which was a reaction to industrilization, the growth of cities, and worsening air and water polution.

1999 - The Left-Green Movement (Vinstrihreyfingin - grænt framboð)

2009 - Sustainable Water Certification