{"id":844,"date":"2014-04-22T16:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T16:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=844"},"modified":"2014-04-23T13:46:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T13:46:18","slug":"happy-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/happy-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Earth Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Earth Day!\u00a0 Today, April 22, Earth Day celebrations are occurring throughout the United States as well as around the world.\u00a0 This year\u2019s theme, Green Cities, focuses on sustainable communities. \u00a0Denis Hayes was the first coordinator of Earth Day, an environmental \u201cteach-in\u201d held on April 22, 1970.\u00a0 In the first Earth Day participants from two thousand colleges and universities, roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the United States \u201cbrought 20 million Americans out into the spring sunshine for peaceful demonstrations in favor of environmental reform.\u201d\u00a0 He founded the Earth Day Network in Washington, DC and expanded it to 192 countries.\u00a0 Time Magazine named him \u201cHero of the planet\u201d in 1999.\u00a0 His mentor, former US Senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord Nelson, originated the idea 44 years ago, in 1970, to promote and support responsible protection of our environment, the Earth. Gaylord Nelson hired Denis Hayes, a student attending the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University to organize the first Earth Day. In 1995, Nelson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of his work.<\/p>\n

The first to propose an international day to honor the Earth was peace activist John McConnell. His vision, formed at a UNESCO conference on the environment in 1969, included a celebration to be held on the first day of spring in the Northern Hemisphere: March 21, McConnell\u2019s proposal led to a proclamation signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations in 1971, initiating an annual Earth Day on April 22nd. \u00a0McConnell later founded the Earth Society in 1976 with anthropologist Margaret Mead.<\/p>\n

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April 22 Is Earth Day: What it Means, (2014) from http:\/\/usparks.about.com\/od\/conservationpreservation\/a\/earth_day.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Brosnan, Kathleen A.\u00a0 Encyclopedia of American Environmental History Volume II.\u00a0 New York: Facts on File, Inc.\u00a0 An imprint of Infobase Publishing, 2011.\u00a0 Engineering Library Folio GE 150 .E53 2011 V.2 http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&local_base=UIOWA&request=005765304<\/a><\/p>\n

Earth Day Extravaganza Sheds Its Humble Roots (April 22, 1990) from http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1990\/04\/22\/us\/earth-day-extravaganza-sheds-its-humble-roots.html?scp=2&sq=%22earth+day%22&st=nyt<\/a><\/p>\n

Earth Day History:\u00a0 The History of Earth Day (2014) from http:\/\/environment.about.com\/od\/environmentalevents\/a\/twoearthdays.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

Gorman, Hugh S. The Story of N:\u00a0 A Social History of the Nitrogen Cycle and the Challenge of Sustainability.\u00a0 N.J.\u00a0 : Rutgers University Press, 2013.\u00a0 Engineering Library TD196.N55 G67 2013. \u00a0http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&local_base=UIOWA&request=007232308<\/a><\/p>\n

Khale, Lynn R, and Eda Gurel-Atay, editors.\u00a0 Communicating Sustainability for the Green Economy. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2014.\u00a0 Engineering Library HC79. E5.C61236 2014. http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&local_base=UIOWA&request=007444474<\/a><\/p>\n

Taback, H.J. Environmental Ethics and Sustainability: A Casebook for Environmental Professionals. Florida, Boca Raton: CRC Press 2014. Engineering Library GE42. T33 2014. http:\/\/infohawk.uiowa.edu\/F\/?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&local_base=UIOWA&request=007366984<\/a><\/p>\n

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, (2014) from https:\/\/unfccc.int\/2860.php<\/a><\/p>\n

Who Invented Earth Day? ( 2014) \u00a0from http:\/\/environment.about.com\/od\/earthday\/f\/who-invented-earth-day.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

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