Happy Earth Day
April 22
“Preserve and cherish the blue dot, the only home that we’ve ever known.”--Carl Sagan
“The Earth is what we all have in common.” —Wendell Berry
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to celebrate and support our environment and the planet.
HISTORY
1969: Wisconsin Senator, two-term WI governor, and ardent conservationist, Gaylord Nelson, wanted to improve the environment. Influenced by Rachel Carson’s book, “Silent Spring (1962), the famous 1968 Earthrise NASA photograph of the Earth from the Moon, the disaster of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill (3 million galllons), and the Cuyahoga River catching fire in Cleveland, OH, Gaylord Nelson and Democrat operative Fred Dutton worked on getting
1970: Earth Day first occurred on April 22, 1970. Today 1 billion people in more than 193 countries celebrate it.