Sentences with phrase «first earth day»

When the first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970, environmental concerns focused primarily on addressing the pollution of air and water.

The first Earth Day was established on April 22, 1970.

As we celebrate our home planet and the strides being made toward keeping our world clean, healthy and sustainable, it's inspiring to realize how much environmental awareness has expanded since the first Earth Day back in 1970...

It was April 22, 1970 when United States Senator Gaylord Nelson declared the first Earth Day.

During the First Earth Day celebration in 1995 when Al Gore visited Fall River, Massachusetts he gave a speech praising Molten Metals Inc..

There has been a shift in thinking from the first Earth Day to now.

1970 First Earth Day.

That's nearly twice as many people as there were in 1970, the year of the first Earth Day.

In the first Earth Day in 1970, UC Davis's Kenneth Watt said, «If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000.

Considered the birth of the environmental movement, the first Earth Day took place during the height of America's counterculture era.

The first Earth Day was April 22, 1970, with over 20 million Americans from all walks of life taking part.

After the 1969 oil spill off the coast of California citizens rose up to initiate the first Earth Day in April, 1970.

One should also keep in mind that there were some spectacularly wrong predictions made around the first earth day in 1970.

Since before the first Earth Day, 40 years ago, Margaret Atwood explained to TreeHugger, environmentalism has been on a slow journey from the back pages to the forefront of the news — from amateurs on the fringe to near - mainstream acceptance.

In 1969, an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California released a few million gallons of oil into marine ecosystems — eight months later, it was among the primary catalysts for the biggest pro-environmental movement in the nation's history, starting with the first Earth Day.

The first Earth Day was held in 1970, and, over the next three years, Congress passed and (a Republican) President Nixon signed into law sweeping environmental statutes.

Those who insist on the potential for a large - scale, populist movement to bring about significant change often point to the first Earth Day, when 20 million people took the streets and brought about the passage of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, not to mention the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

In Cowed, Denis Hayes, a prominent environmentalist who coordinated the first Earth Day in 1970, along with his wife Gail Boyer Hayes, an environmental lawyer, tell the story of that meat.

Sunday, April 22nd, marked nearly 50 years since millions of people gathered for the first Earth Day.

Earth Day Network, the group founded by the organizers of the first Earth Day to coordinate the annual day of action that builds and invigorates the environmental movement, said that this theme was chosen because of the need to highlight the mounting impact of climate change on individuals around the world.

Environmentalism is no longer a popular movement like it was at the time of the first Earth Day in 1971.

Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network (EDN) works with tens of thousands of partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement.

Speakers at the event will include U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire; Andrew Revkin, strategic adviser for environmental and science journalism at the National Geographic Society; NFL veteran and philanthropist Ovie Mughelli; and Denis Hayes, President of the Bullitt Foundation, Board Chair Emeritus of Earth Day Network and organizer of the first Earth Day 1970.

Every year since the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network has held a gala Earth Day Celebration on the National Mall with large screens showing movies of people working to save the environment.

• New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network, the world's largest recruiter to the environmental movement, works with tens of thousands of partners in 192 countries to build environmental democracy and to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement.

The first Earth Day was held on 22 April 1970 in response to the legitimate concerns of millions of people that reducing air, land and water pollution needed to happen more quickly.

On the 43rd anniversary of Earth Day in April, Lester was interviewed on NPR's Talk of the Nation and asked to explain what's changed since the first Earth Day in 1970, as concern about climate change and green energy have come to the forefront of the movement.

On the first Earth Day in New York City tens of thousands of people concerned about environmental issues marched and paraded in lower Manhattan and many thousands attended speeches in Union Square Park.

The rapid rise of the modern environmental movement that was undeniable by April 1970 was perceived to be a threat to many members of the US business community, As a result, soon after the first Earth Day in 1970, the environmental countermovement began to organize.

According to E Magazine, he participated as a high school student in the first Earth Day in 1970.

In that article, Bailey noted that around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, and in the years following, there was a «torrent of apocalyptic predictions» and many of those predictions were featured in his Reason article.

Well, it's now the 48th anniversary of Earth Day, and a good time to ask the question again that Bailey asked 18 years ago: How accurate were the predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970?

Despite the potential cost - effectiveness of market - based policy instruments, such as pollution taxes and tradable permits, conventional approaches — including design and uniform performance standards — have been the mainstay of U.S. environmental policy since before the first Earth Day in 1970.

The first Earth Day, in 1970, was deeply pessimistic.

The initial «Earth Day» kicked off with a warning about the coming ice age: «1970: First Earth Day Promoted Ice Age Fears — Excerpt: At the first Earth Day celebration, in 1970, environmentalist Nigel Calder warned, «The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

I know a lot of young people who would celebrate the potential for a brighter future, like those before me celebrated the passage of the Civil Rights Act and desegregation, the passage of our nation's environmental laws, the first Earth Day, and the crumbling of the Berlin Wall.

Remarks at our 2018 Climate Leadership Gala from Denis Hayes, our Board Chair Emeritus and the organizer for the first Earth Day in 1970.

EDN's Board Chair Emeritus Denis Hayes was only 25 when he made a huge mark on the environmental movement — as the National Coordinator of the very first Earth Day (more on the history).

Hayes recently gave an interview to Mongabay about that first Earth Day, our current campaign to End Plastic Pollution, and his work on sustainability as President of the Bullitt Center, which marks Earth Day with Earth Day Celebration Tours.

Environmentalism (especially in the United States) has been a force for much good since the first Earth Day in 1970.

In the video message above, Mr. Obama describes how the first Earth Day was prompted in part by vivid incidents like a fire on the pollution - stained Cuyahoga River in Cleveland.

I was just 26 when I participated in the very first Earth Day at home in Massachusetts.

Here we are 40 years following the first Earth Day, and none of the dire predictions above about environmental disaster has come true.

President Richard Nixon helped amend the Clean Air Act of 1970 — largely in response to the activity stirred by the first Earth Day — to regulate such pollution exactly around that very time!

I'll end with a look back at an earlier phase of this journey toward a better human relationship with the environment — the first Earth Day:

The year 1970 would celebrate the first Earth Day.

In many ways, the first Earth Day in 1970 marked the beginning of the modern environmentalism movement.

Satellite photos of oil on salt water may even impact the politics of environment in the USA, just as did NASA's first photos of the Blue Planet two years after the first Earth Day, helping inspire Congress to pass major pieces of environmental legislation.

Indeed, in this election candidates have felt free to call for explicitly anti-environment actions like the severe restriction — if not the complete elimination — of the EPA, an organization that is intimately connected to the first Earth Day and the modern environmental movement.»