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First Earth Day Former Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) conceived Earth Day as a day of awareness in the late 1960s. He responded to the alarming pollution spreading carelessly across America, marking a pivotal moment in our environmental history. The country celebrated its first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. The environmental practices it inaugurated have since become… Read more.
Earth Day 2020 saw reports of less industrial pollution, less car pollution, less noise pollution, and even less litter on streets. Hell, even India reported pollution so low that blue skies were seen in some cities for the first time in over 10 years. But all of that just raised the obvious question: How will… Read more.
No doubt reports like the one below inspired the “Earth Day 2020 Report” Dave Granlund depicted in this cartoon for the April 21 edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer: India is home to 21 of the world’s 30 most polluted cities, but recently air pollution levels have started to drop dramatically as the second-most populated nation… Read more.
Former US Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) conceived this day of awareness in the late 1960s as an enlightened response to carefree pollution all over America. The country celebrated its first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. The environmental practices it inaugurated have become routine and universal, so much so that the symbolic replenishing of Earth’s natural… Read more.
Ha! We should be so lucky. According to the February 23 edition of Vox, here’s the big deal about this Green New Deal: It refers, in the loosest sense, to a massive program of investments in clean-energy jobs and infrastructure, meant to transform not just the energy sector, but the entire economy. It is meant… Read more.
