Earth Day

Earth Day is Every Day ... Every Day is Earth Day

April 22, 2026

The First Earth Day Was a Bell Ringer

For the initial (Earth Day) commemoration, Congress effectively closed down so that lawmakers could attend events. More than 20 million Americans participated in rallies, lectures and protests across the country, including at more than 1,500 college campuses and 10,000 schools.

The public outcry galvanized the modern environmental movement. It also spurred Congress to create the Environmental Protection Agency and to enact three landmark environmental laws within three years: the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and, finally, the Endangered Species Act. -- NYT

Our Blue-Green Living Planet Earth

As the first inklings of our human responsibilities for the home planet touch us ...

A PlanetCitizen as one among many, in a world of Planet Citizens

Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day

Earth Day 2020, Looking Back to the Beginnings

Original Art by 'OS' Olivia Schmidt / BY-NC-CC

The First "Earth Day" in 1970: An Idea for a Green 'Teach-In'

A Santa Barbara Oil Spill, a U.S. Senator Visits Us & We Talk of a National Action

The Peace Organizing Built in 1969 Brings on a Green Day in the Spring of 1970

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner's personal memories, a story of being there and being 'into' a blue-green vision...

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary

• https://greenpolicy360.net/index.php/File:USC_Daily_Trojan_Sen_Nelson_speech_day_after_first_Earth_Day_.jpg

The "Earth Day" Flag

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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day

 

 

GreenPolicy360 Founder-Siterunner / Steven Schmidt

Memories of beginnings, of those "crazy enough"... "to change the world"

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Quotes

 

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner / Steve Schmidt:

DYK? Yes, being there, we do know, we remember...

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The Modern Environmental Movement

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/The_Modern_Environmental_Movement

Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement

* https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf

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Earthrise

Apollo 8 Earthrise Photos

December 1968

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise

To the Origins of Earth Day, a New Vision of Our Home Planet,

Our Blue-Green Living Earth

Apollo 8 photos in Life Magazine, January 1969