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...
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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 theUnited Nations where it is observed each year.
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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 nations.
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