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40th Earth day April 22, 2010
04/22/2010
Today marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Let's take a look at how and why it came to be, its impact on our attitudes toward the environment and some of the ways we're observing the annual salute to our favorite planet.
U.S. senator founded Earth Day in 1970 to raise and reflect growing public awareness of environmental issues.
The environment wasn't making big news at the time, but a 1969 New York Times article about Earth Day noted a groundswell of activism. Recent ecological disasters in Ohio and California helped galvanize public response.
The senator modeled Earth Day after a fervent movement on college campuses and chose a young graduate student at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government to organize the first national event. It was originally called something less catchy, but "Earth Day" was the name that stuck.
Read more: http://specials.msn.com/A-List/earth-day-slideshow.aspx?cp-documentid=23904076&imageindex=1&cp-searchtext=Earth%20Day&FORM=MSNIIT
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