Earth Day - Inspiring Awareness

  Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. Founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin as an environmental teach-in on April 22 1970, Earth Day marked the beginning of the modern environmental movement. Senator Nelson hoped that a grassroots outcry about environmental issues might prove to Washington, D.C. just how distressed Americans were in every constituency.

   Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, Freeway and expressway revolts, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.

   Observed in 175 countries, and coordinated by the nonprofit Earth Day Network, has helped create Earth Day organizations worldwide. The EDN believes Earth Day is now "the largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated by more than a half billion people every year." Environmental groups have sought to make Earth Day into a day of action which changes human behavior and provokes policy changes.

  Earth Day 2010 will coincide with the World People's Conference on Climate Change, to be held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, and with the International Year of Biodiversity. In observance of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, multiple global initiatives have been created, ranging from a Global Day of Conversation with mayors worldwide, focusing on bringing green investment and building a green economy; Athletes for the Earth Campaign that brings Olympic, professional, and every day athletes' voices to help promote a solution to climate change; a Billion Acts of Green Campaign which will aggregate the millions of environmental service commitments that individuals and organizations around the world make each year; to Artist for the Earth, a campaign the involves hundreds of arts institutions and artists worldwide to create environmental awareness. Earth Day Network expects at least 1.5 billion people to participate in these global events and programs.
    -Source: Wikipedia

  Visit Wikipedia for a more extensive history, references and links. And remember, we should observe Earth Day everyday - not just one day a year.

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