Earth Saving Tips From Earth Share - Spring 2000 earth day 2000 is coming! This April 22, earth day s 30th anniversary, in their communities to teach, learn, and take action on environmental issues. http://www.earthshare.org/tips/earthdayaction.html
Extractions: Earth Day 2000 is coming! This April 22, Earth Day's 30th anniversary, promises to involve as many as a half-billion people around the world, working in their communities to teach, learn, and take action on environmental issues. . . .The first Earth Day, in 1970, was the result of an idea by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to hold a nationwide "Environmental Teach-in" on college campuses across America. . . What can you do? First and foremost is to get involved with one of the thousands of Earth Day activities taking place in almost every community. You're likely to find stream and park cleanups, lectures and presentations, community gatherings and celebrations, and more. The worldwide theme of this year's Earth Day is "Clean Energy Now!" To find out what's going on - locally, nationally, and globally - visit www.earthday.net , the website of Earth Day Network (an Earth Share member agency). It contains a wealth of information about Earth Day events, and tells how to get involved. You will also find opportunities to volunteer, subscribe to a free daily news summary, and register your own group or event. You don't need to attend an official event to celebrate Earth Day 2000. All you need to do is make a few small changes to your daily routine to reduce your energy use. Walk instead of drive, or take public transportation. Turn off the lights when you leave a room. Buy and install a compact fluorescent or other energy-efficient light bulb. Of course, the point of Earth Day is not simply to do these things for a single day, but to make changes that can last all year long. As the saying goes: Earth Day, Every Day!
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Extractions: by Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day For many years prior to Earth Day, it had been troubling to me that the state of our environment was simply a non-issue in the politics of our country. The President, the Congress, the economic power structure of the nation and the press paid almost no attention to this issue, which is of such staggering import to our future. It was clear that until we somehow got this matter into the political arena until it became part of the national political dialogue not much would ever be achieved. The puzzling challenge was to think up some dramatic event that would focus national attention on the environment. Finally, in 1962, an idea occurred to me that was, I thought, a virtual cinch to get the environment into the political limelight once and for all.
Wai Chin Ng - Earth Day Birthday ~ Learning Festival earth day Birthday challenges tutors to teach principles of ecology and recycling. Assessment Students wrote essays reflecting on their earth day http://bostonteachnet.org/ng/ng.htm
Extractions: Earth Day Birthday ~ Learning Festival Overview How old is the Earth? When kids hear that it is 4 billion years old, they understand why we must care for it. Based on the concept of Learning Festivals where older students host learning stations for youngsters and neighboring senior citizens, Earth Day Birthday challenges tutors to teach principles of ecology and recycling. Staged in the school's high-in-the-sky outdoor play area, inner city children get the message: Nature is everywhere. From seed planting to creating a peaceful tree, the event provides ways for older students to perfect emerging English skills and for younger ones to learn earth friendly concepts. Classroom Activities Community Activities Career Activities Research activities on Earth Day Network. Happy Birthday to You, Earth!, Peaceful Tree Recycle Toss Migration Hopscotch Write article about festival. Grade 4 students escort primary youngsters to each event.
Earth Day Resources -- Arts & Sciences Libraries, UB Libraries SEL presents a CyberExhibit commemorating the anniversary of earth day, Environmental teachIn Advertisement New York Times, January 18, 1970 http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/exhibits/earthday.html
Extractions: 1970-2005: 35 Years of Environmental Awareness The (ASL) presents a CyberExhibit commemorating the anniversary of Earth Day, which includes: a brief history of Earth Day, a listing of selected international, national, state, local, and campus Internet resources, and other materials. History of Earth Day "Earth Day is a commitment to make life better, not just bigger and faster; to provide real rather than rhetorical solutions. It is a day to re-examine the ethic of individual progress at mankind's expense. It is a day to challenge the corporate and government leaders who promise change, but who shortchange the necessary programs. It is a day for looking beyond tomorrow. April 22 seeks a future worth living." - Environmental Teach-In Advertisement New York Times , January 18, 1970 The celebration event known as Earth Day, was created in 1969 and 1970. However, Earth Day found its initial inspirations in the 1950s and 1960s decades marked by tremendous social and cultural awareness, times of activism and change, times of spiritual enlightenment and consciousness. One cultural concept around which millions of people began to rally was the environment.
Extractions: Earth Day 1970-1995: An Information Perspective Energy, Environment, and Resources Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37932, USA. TEL: 615-675-9510. "Earth Day is a commitment to make life better, not just bigger and faster; to provide real rather than rhetorical solutions. It is a day to re-examine the ethic of individual progress at mankind's expense. It is a day to challenge the corporate and government leaders who promise change, but who shortchange the necessary programs. It is a day for looking beyond tomorrow. April 22 seeks a future worth living. April 22 seeks a future." January 18, 1970 The celebratory event known as "Earth Day," created in 1969 and 1970, found its initial inspiration in the 1950s and 1960s, decades marked by tremendous social and cultural awareness, times of activism and change. One cultural concept around which millions of people began to rally was the environment. The legacy of environmental thought in the decades prior to the first Earth Day gave birth to the event in 1970. A body of environmental literature emerged in the United States which traced its roots to the colonial and post-Revolutionary War periods. The writings of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and George Perkins in the latter half of the 19th and in the 20th century stimulated and created a philosophy and ethic for the environment and concerns for nature and the wilderness.
Editorial - Number 32: Has Earth Day Made A Difference? Perhaps the idealism of youth from that very first earth day on April 22, as a person who as a college student attended the first teachins earth day, http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/egj16/stoss1.html
Extractions: Suny University at Buffalo, USA Celebrating the existence of the beauty and riches of our planet, Earth, has been an integral part of the lives of many people. Perhaps the idealism of youth from that very first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 sparked an interest for a life-long commitment to explore new ways to understand the Earth and the dynamics of the processes that keep our environment vibrant. Maybe it took more than a few years to change the way we live our daily lives to be more embracing of an Earth ethic to protect and conserve. The USA Today Snapshots article on Earth Day featured an Earth Day Lesson Plan, telling readers that adults say it is important to teach children to: preserve natural resources (36%), reduce air pollution (23%), conserve energy (20%), and protect wildlife habitats (16%) (Snapshots, USA Today , April 22, 2002, p. 1D).
Extractions: - Margaret Mead Hello Friend of Planet Earth, Thanks for your interest in exploring in the Earth Day activity "In Balance With Earth." Just imagine how all of life on Earth might be a happier experience if 600 million people this year learned to deal with the underlying causes of our personal, environmental and social disharmony. Our runaway problems are not found in natural systems or nature centered people. They result from industrial society's excessive separation from nature and its disruptive effects on our naturally peaceful thoughts and relationships. Far too often, our efforts to live harmoniously with Earth do not meet their goal. Our estrangement from the natural environment produces apathy, resistance to change and addictive prejudices at all levels. This is an ecologically rooted psychological challenge, a problem that begs psychological solutions. For young or old alike, applied ecopsychology activities address this challenge. For this reason, we invite you to use, teach, and network the activity "In Balance With Earth." It is an Earth connected sensory rediscovery experience. It enables you to create and share moments in nature that let Earth touch you and teach you its balance.
Extractions: Breaking down the barriers to solving worldroblems THE EARTH DAY PETITION FOR PEACE ON EARTH THROUGH PEACE WITH EARTH A global cooperation and consensus petition for leaders, parents and students to engage in a unique, organic, education/counseling/healing process that enables people anywhere to dissolve the nature-disconnected roots of social and environmental terrorism and establish peace on Earth through peace with Earth.
Earth Day - - Every Day! earth day is April 22 and is a day in which we celebrate our beautiful planet and At the time, antiVietnam War demonstrations, called teach-ins, had http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dshm/redrecy/earthday.html
Extractions: By Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day What was the purpose of Earth Day? How did it start? These are the questions I am most frequently asked. Actually for several years, it had been troubling me that the state of our environment was simply a non-issue in the politics of the country. Finally, in November 1962, an idea occurred to me that was, I thought, a virtual cinch to put the environment into the political "limelight" once and for all. The idea was to persuade President Kennedy to give visibility to this issue by going on a national conservation tour. I flew to Washington to discuss the proposal with Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who liked the idea. So did the President. The President began his five-day, eleven-state conservation tour in September 1963. For many reasons the tour did not succeed in putting the issue onto the national political agenda. However, it was the germ of the idea that ultimately flowered into Earth Day. I continued to speak on environmental issues to a variety of audiences in some twenty-five states. All across the country, evidence of environmental degradation was appearing everywhere, and everyone noticed except the political establishment. The environmental issue simply was not to be found on the nation's political agenda. The people were concerned, but the politicians were not.
The My Hero Project - Wis. Senator The former governor and senator started earth day in 1970, when an estimated 20 ``It suddenly occurred to me, why not have a nationwide teachin on the http://myhero.com/hero.asp?hero=EarthDay_Remembered_AP
Earth Day@Everything2.com earth day is a somewhat debated holiday. earthday.net says what I had always heard Nelson noticed the phenomenon of teachins taking place on college http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Earth Day
Extractions: Year of The Rooster T-Shirts Rooster T-Shirt ... T-Shirts Sweatshirts and Gifts Earth Day T-Shirts Many Earth Day T-Shirt Designs At around the same time, disturbed that the environment was a nonissue in American politics (and perhaps unaware of San Francisco's plans for the first day of spring), Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed that a national environmental teach-in be held on April 22, 1970. Also dubbed "Earth Day," the event was an enormous success: 20 million people participated in demonstrations, and more than 500 members of Congress made speeches about the environment or attended teach-ins. Today, the United States officially celebrates Earth Day on April 22 while other countries celebrate it on the first day of spring. Whatever date it is observed, however, this holiday is a good time to consider how we might better care for the planet that sustains us.
Extractions: Martin Luther King T-Shirt Many T-Shirt Designs ... T-Shirts T-Shirt Gifts Cards Sweatshirts Mugs Shop Earth Day T-Shirt 2005 Gift and Card Shop At around the same time, disturbed that the environment was a nonissue in American politics (and perhaps unaware of San Francisco's plans for the first day of spring), Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed that a national environmental teach-in be held on April 22, 1970. Also dubbed "Earth Day," the event was an enormous success: 20 million people participated in demonstrations, and more than 500 members of Congress made speeches about the environment or attended teach-ins. Today, the United States officially celebrates Earth Day on April 22 while other countries celebrate it on the first day of spring. Whatever date it is observed, however, this holiday is a good time to consider how we might better care for the planet that sustains us.
Go Organic! It is this years version of Senator Nelsons earth day teachin vision from 35 years ago. Visit www.organicearthday.org to learn more. http://www.earthday.net/resources/2005materials/GoOrganic.aspx
Extractions: Spring, 1997, v1 #1 By Kyle Sharp , Associate Editor, Communications and Technology "Our goal is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all other human creatures and for all other living creatures. An environment without ugliness, without ghettos, without discrimination, without hunger, without poverty, without war." The words of then Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson during the first Earth Day 26 years ago are ones that could be heard at any Earth Day gathering today. Nelson felt strongly about preserving the environment and thought environmental issues such as overpopulation, scarce resources and pollution should be higher political and social priorities. But not being a radical, he did not like the confrontations and violence that marked protests against the Vietnam War and sought a more civil and educational way to draw people's attention to environmental concerns. The result was a day of "teach-ins" devoted to lectures, rallies, petitions and peace on April 22, 1970. A sudden media frenzy and genuine concern for the environment got the country's attention, and around 20 million Americans took part in the events. It became the largest rally of the '60s and '70s era of big demonstrations. Some angry students performed guerrilla theater wearing gas masks, burying cars and pouring oil in the reflecting pool at the Standard Oil Building in San Fransisco. But, most collected tons of litter along roadsides and streams, attended teach-ins at 1,500 colleges and 10,000 schools, and politely listened to speeches by environmental leaders like Nelson.
EEK! - Gaylord Anton Nelson - Father Of Earth Day Read all about the Gaylord Anton Nelson Father of earth day. Why not have a teachin on the environment? Thats how the idea for earth day was born. http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/nature/gaylord.htm
Extractions: There was a special adventure to being a young boy in northwestern Wisconsin. There was the adventure of exploring a deep green pine forest, crunching noisily through the crisp leaves and pine needles on a sharp fall day, or taking a cool drink from a fast running trout stream or a hidden lake. Gaylord Nelson Gaylord Nelson was born in Clear Lake, Wisconsin in 1916. His experiences as a boy growing up in northern Wisconsin helped shape his life-long interest in the environment. Clear Lake offered him the chance to fish, swim, ice skate and explore. His day-to-day outdoor adventures made him curious about how nature works. He tells the story of how, at an early age, he and a friend conducted an experiment. When turtles migrated to a local pond for spring egg-laying, they picked up one of the traveling turtles and placed her in the opposite direction or put her behind a tree to see which way she would go. Without fail, she would turn herself back towards the pond and continue her journey. This interest in nature stayed with him when he left Clear Lake. Nelson received a B.A. degree from San Jose State College in San Jose, California. He returned to his native Wisconsin to attend law school, graduating in 1942. After graduation, he served in the United States Army for 4 years during WWII. He returned to Madison after the war, set up a law practice, and married Carrie Lee Dotson.
Teachers.Net Meeting - Early Childhood/Elementary Please feel free to exchange ideas for earth day in the classroom. Trish I teach English and reading, and the other fifth-grade teachers and I try to http://teachers.net/archive/ec032100.html
Politician Who Started Earth Day Dies At 89 The former governor and senator started earth day in 1970, when an estimated 20 It suddenly occurred to me, why not have a nationwide teachin on the http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/nelson03.html
Extractions: MILWAUKEE Gaylord Nelson, the folksy Democratic senator from Wisconsin who helped start the modern environmental movement with the creation of Earth Day 35 years ago, died Sunday. He was 89. Nelson died of cardiovascular failure at his home in the Washington suburb of Kensington, Md., said Bill Christofferson, his biographer and family spokesman. A conservationist years before it was fashionable, Nelson was recognized as one of the world's foremost environmental leaders. The former governor and senator started Earth Day in 1970, when an estimated 20 million people participated. April 22 is still celebrated today by planting trees, cleaning up trash and lobbying for a clean environment. In the Senate, Nelson had a reputation for cocktail party stunts, like ripping up a Milwaukee phone book (there was a trick to it) or doing one-arm push-ups. "He was just an incredible person: humble, funny, proud of his roots in Clear Lake, Wisconsin, and never changed by the power and pomp of the offices that he held," Gov. Jim Doyle said in a statement Sunday.
Extractions: Sentinel staff writer However, students say much more needs to be done before the campus is truly environmentally responsible. Instead of marching in protest, though, a group of students has spent hours upon hours researching "green" building design, meeting with campus administrators and developing ways to raise ecological awareness among fellow students. The effort is paying off. Last July, the UC Regents, the governing board of all nine UC schools, adopted a systemwide policy calling for "green" buildings and "clean" energy, with a goal of reducing energy consumption by at least 10 percent by 2014. "It’s like riding a wave," said senior Marcia Winslade, 24, who as co-chair of the 3-year-old Student Environmental Center lobbied hard for the policy — and at the expense of activities that typically consume the time of students, like surfing. "We happened to be in the right place at the right time," Winslade said.
