Earth Day
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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...
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Earth Day
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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
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