Water and Pollution
This law regulates the release of pollutants into U.S. waters.
What is the Clean Water Act?
This farming method uses crop rotation and minimal chemical input to maintain soil health.
What is sustainable agriculture?
This leader supported the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley to provide water for the growing population of San Francisco.
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
These were presented by the class of 1942 to Willamette University on its 100th anniversary
What are the star trees?
This type of pollution comes from a single, identifiable source.
What is point source pollution?
This is the process of genetically modifying crops to increase yield or resistance to pests.
What is genetic engineering?
This is a market-based environmental policy that allows the trading of pollution permits.
What is cap-and-trade?
This botanical garden was dedicated in 1988 in honor of a biology professor at the university.
What is the Martha Springer Botanical Garden?
This method of water purification removes salt from seawater.
What is desalination?
This movement used bio-engineered seeds, chemical fertilizers, and heavy irrigation to increase crop yields and feed the world's growing population
What is the Green Revolution of the 1960s
These three components make up sustainability.
What are environment, economy, and society?
This body of water flows through the heart of campus.
What is the Mill Stream?
This river in Ohio became heavily affected by industrial pollution, so much so that it caught fire at least 14 times.
What is the Cuyahoga River?
This animal produces between 154 to 264 pounds of methane gas per year.
What is a cow?
These are measures implemented by governments to discourage population growth and reduce birth rates.
What are anti-natalist policies?
This bird species is the unofficial mascot of Willamette University
Mallard Duck
This is the largest spill of oil in the history of marine oil drilling operations.
What is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
This food is developed from animal cell culture, and not via traditional raising and slaughter of living animals.
What is lab-grown meat?
This regulation protects nearly every Oregonian from the health risks of secondhand smoke.
What is the Oregon Indoor Clean Air Act?
Douglas fir, Western redcedar, and Oregon Oak
What are three native tree species found on campus?