Earth Day
Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for
the Earth s natural environment.
The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly
pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco.
The
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Earth Day
Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for
the Earth s natural environment.
The name and concept of Earth Day was allegedly
pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco.
The
first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the City of Saint Francis,
patron saint of ecology.
Earth Day was first observed in San Francisco and other
cities on March 21, 1970, the first day of Spring.
This day of nature s equipoise was
later sanctioned in a Proclamation signed by Secretary General U Thant at
the United Nations where it is observed each year.
About the same time a separate
Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an
environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970.
While this April 22 Earth Day
was focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who
was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and
organized events in 141 natio
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