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26 unusual facts about Earth Day


AGF Management

Earth Day Canada - Building on Acuity’s pre-existing partnership with Earth Day Canada, AGF will work with Earth Day Canada to provide employees with volunteer opportunities and interactive sessions that promote environmental sustainability in the office and at home.

BHEL Matriculation Higher Secondary School

International celebrations like Earth Day, Christmas, Mother's day,Father's Days are also celebrated grandly in the School.

Bond No. 9

2012 saw the launch of I LOVE NY for Earth Day as a celebration of the environmental movement and New York’s dedication to it.

Chorro, California

Chorro and El Chorro Regional Park is also known for its contributions to the county of San Louis Obispo for Earth Day, where many residents stay and spend the night in the park and throughout the town.

Clear Lake, Wisconsin

Gaylord A. Nelson - Former Wisconsin Governor and United States Senator, Founder of Earth Day

Denis Hayes

He rose to prominence in 1970 as the coordinator for the first Earth Day.

Drano

After Earth Day in 1970, there came increasing pressure to eliminate CFC propellants.

Earth shoe

The shoes were introduced in the United States in New York City on April 1, 1970, three weeks before the first Earth Day.

Eugene Odum

By 1970, when the first Earth Day was organized, Odum's conception of the living Earth as a global set of interlaced ecosystems became one of the key insights of the environmental movement that has since spread through the world.

Fred Dutton

Dutton was credited with originating the idea for Earth Day.

His early memo was later acknowledged to be inspiration for Gaylord Nelson who would lead the effort to create Earth Day.

Garbage Dreams

Garbage Dreams aired on the PBS program Independent Lens for the occasion of Earth Day 2010 and has been screened in many international film festivals.

Hobby School

Every year, students from 9th, 10th and 11th grades organize a clean-up of the Selbe river in Ulaanbaatar on Earth Day.

Jalpan de Serra

Earth Day (Fiesta de la Tierra) takes place in June, sponsored by the Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda.

Kawkab Sabah al-Daya

She was appointed the first Minister of State for Environment Affairs on 23 April 2009, the day after Earth Day.

KRTH

With the switch in format came a new moniker, "K-Earth," which was named after the first "Earth Day" which had debuted to much fanfare the year before.

Lori Saldaña

Saldaña was on the founding Board of Directors for San Diego Earth Day and organized the first "Earth Fair" in Balboa Park in 1990.

Mary Franson

On April 20, 2012 Franson objected to the opening prayer on the House floor, where the House Chaplain Rev. Francis Grady mentioned Earth Day and tied it to the Gulf oil spill.

Morton Hilbert

Morton Shelly Hilbert (January 3, 1917 - December 24, 1998) was a professor of public health, environmentalist, and co-founder of Earth Day.

N. G. Vartak High School

On April 22, 2010, the school arranged a Marathon Race for Green and Serene Earth on account of Earth Day.

Our Green Book

Published annually by AVI Publishing, INC., Our Green Book's 2010 release (scheduled to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, April 22) will include editions not only for New York but for San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles as well.

Pan-Asia International School

The second semester runs from January to mid-June and includes Sports Day, Makha Bucha, Songkran Holidays, Earth Day and Graduation Day for Kindergarten 3 classes.

Philip J. Landrigan

1999 Earth Day New York, Award for Excellence in Environmental Medicine

Project Learning Tree

Project Learning Tree (PLT) was created in 1976, after passage of the first National Environmental Education Act in 1970 and celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970, raised the profile of environmental education in the United States.

SpongeBob's Last Stand

It originally aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on April 22, 2010, in celebration of Earth Day.

Susan Zakin

Coyotes and Town Dogs is a history of the U.S. conservation movement since Earth Day 1970, written in the New Journalism style of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson.


Civic Center, San Francisco

Many street parades and parties are held in Civic Center Plaza, including San Francisco's Gay Pride Parade, the City's Earth Day celebration (which attracts 15,000+ people), the St. Patrick's Day parade, San Francisco's version of the Love Parade, and the San Francisco LovEvolution party.

Decocidio

The upper case theta was in 1969 made into an Ecology Symbol by cartoonist Ron Cobb, that later became associated with Earth Day.

Endangered Planet Foundation

EPF Board of Directors and Advisors have included Earth Day Founder, Visionary and Peace Advocate, John McConnell, Joanne Tawfilis, a Bob Marley Peace Award winner and former United Nations executive, attorney Jonathan R. Ellowitz, and noted environmental author, Chris Prelitz.

Hubway

On Earth Day, April 21, 2011, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino signed a contract with Alta Bicycle Share, officially announcing the launch of a bike share system in Boston.

Santa Barbara County, California

It is generally believed that the inspiration for Earth Day was the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill; however, Gaylord Nelson, the senator who proposed the idea, has never directly cited any direct cause for the establishment of the holiday.

Uemon Ikeda

In April 2013 his installation To Have or not to Have at Capitoline Hill was displayed on Earth Day.

Vicky Brago-Mitchell

She won the preliminary election, but lost to eventual Earth Day national coordinator Denis Hayes in a two person runoff election.