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Earth Day<\/th><\/tr>
<\/a>The unofficial Earth Flag<\/a> created by John McConnell<\/a> includes The Blue Marble<\/a><\/em> photograph taken by the crew of Apollo 17<\/a>.<\/td><\/tr>
Significance<\/th>	Support for environmental protection<\/td><\/tr>
Begins<\/th>	1970<\/td><\/tr>
Date<\/th>	April 22<\/a><\/td><\/tr>
Next time<\/th>	April 22, 2024<\/td><\/tr>
Frequency<\/th>	Annual<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Earth Day<\/strong> is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection<\/a>. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by Earthday.org (formerly Earth Day Network)[1]<\/a><\/sup> including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries.[2]<\/a><\/sup>[1]<\/a><\/sup>[3]<\/a><\/sup> The official theme for 2024 is “Planet vs. Plastics.” 2025 will be the 55th anniversary of Earth Day.[4]<\/a><\/sup>[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n In 1969 at a\u00a0 UNESCO<\/a>\u00a0Conference in\u00a0 San Francisco<\/a>,\u00a0 peace activist<\/a>\u00a0 John McConnell<\/a>\u00a0proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on March 21, 1970, the\u00a0 first day of spring<\/a>\u00a0in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature’s equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General\u00a0 U Thant<\/a>\u00a0at the United Nations. A month later, United States Senator\u00a0 Gaylord Nelson<\/a>\u00a0proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental\u00a0 teach-in<\/a>\u00a0on April 22, 1970. He hired a young activist,\u00a0 Denis Hayes<\/a>, to be the National Coordinator. Nelson and Hayes renamed the event “Earth Day”. Denis and his staff grew the event beyond the original idea for a teach-in to include the entire United States. More than 20 million people poured out on the streets, and the first Earth Day remains the largest single-day protest in human history. Key non-environmentally focused partners played major roles. Under the leadership of labor leader\u00a0 Walter Reuther<\/a>, for example, the\u00a0 United Auto Workers<\/a>\u00a0(UAW) was the most instrumental outside financial and operational supporter of the first Earth Day.[6]<\/a>[7]<\/a>[8]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0According to Hayes: “Without the UAW, the first Earth Day would have likely flopped!”[9]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Nelson was later awarded the\u00a0 Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/a>\u00a0award in recognition of his work.[10]<\/a>[11]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The first Earth Day was focused on the United States. In 1990, Denis Hayes, the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international and organized events in 141 nations.[12]<\/a>[13]<\/a>[14]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0On Earth Day 2016, the landmark\u00a0 Paris Agreement<\/a>\u00a0was signed by the United States, the United Kingdom, China, and 120 other countries. This signing satisfied a key requirement for the\u00a0 entry into force<\/a>\u00a0of the historic draft\u00a0 climate protection treaty<\/a>\u00a0adopted by consensus of the 195 nations present at the\u00a0 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference<\/a>\u00a0in Paris. Numerous communities engaged in\u00a0Earth Day Week actions<\/strong>, an entire week of activities focused on the environmental issues that the world faces.[15]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0On Earth Day 2020, over 100 million people around the world observed the 50th anniversary in what is being referred to as the largest online mass mobilization in history.[3]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0A similar but separate event,\u00a0 World Environment Day<\/a>, is organized by the\u00a0 United Nations<\/a>\u00a0and observed annually on June 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More at: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earth_Day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the measurement of time of one rotation, see Day. Not to be confused with Earth Hour. Earth Day The unofficial Earth Flag created by John McConnell includes The Blue Marble photograph taken by the crew of Apollo 17. Significance Support for environmental protection Begins 1970 Date April 22 Next time April 22, 2024 Frequency Annual… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}