Earth Day
Ron Cobb s 1969 Ecology SymbolEarth 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
Ron Cobb s 1969 Ecology SymbolEarth 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 inter
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