Today marks the 43rd year of Earth Day celebrations, with environmental awareness issues sparking the first event on April 22, 1970 at the hands of former U.S. Senator and Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson.
Marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson of Western Pennsylvania published the book Silent Spring in 1962; its pages stirred what eventually helped to lead to the first environmental movements in the U.S. The book sold more than 500,000 copies in around two dozen countries.
Marine biologist and conservationist Rachel Carson of Western Pennsylvania published the book Silent Spring in 1962; its pages stirred what eventually helped to lead to the first environmental movements in the U.S. The book sold more than 500,000 copies in around two dozen countries.
Nelson founded Earth Day after learning about the devastation of a massive oil spill near Santa Barbara, California in the winter of 1969.
People across the country who had been in an uproar against oil spills, pollution brought about by factories and power plants, sewage, toxic dumps, damage done by automobiles and freeways, loss of trees and open space and looming problems with the extinction of wildlife began to see that they had strong common bonds and needed to stand up for a right to a better quality of living.
On that first Earth Day in 1970, around 20,000 Americans rallied across the U.S. in parks and on streets to voice the need for sustainability and better respect for the environment for the benefit of the health of all on earth.
April 22 became the annual marker for Earth Day because it is the first official day of spring in the northern hemisphere and of autumn in the southern hemisphere.
In some elementary schools today, Earth Day is the third most celebrated holiday after Halloween and Christmas. Earth Day is celebrated is almost 200 countries across the globe in recent years and is also the largest secular modern holiday in history.
People across the country who had been in an uproar against oil spills, pollution brought about by factories and power plants, sewage, toxic dumps, damage done by automobiles and freeways, loss of trees and open space and looming problems with the extinction of wildlife began to see that they had strong common bonds and needed to stand up for a right to a better quality of living.
On that first Earth Day in 1970, around 20,000 Americans rallied across the U.S. in parks and on streets to voice the need for sustainability and better respect for the environment for the benefit of the health of all on earth.
April 22 became the annual marker for Earth Day because it is the first official day of spring in the northern hemisphere and of autumn in the southern hemisphere.
In some elementary schools today, Earth Day is the third most celebrated holiday after Halloween and Christmas. Earth Day is celebrated is almost 200 countries across the globe in recent years and is also the largest secular modern holiday in history.
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