Earth Day 2013

 

Earth day founder gaylord nelson

 Earth Day is a day of observation on the earth that proclaimed every year on April 22 and celebrated internationally. Earth Day is designed to raise awareness and appreciation of the human-occupied planet is Earth. Declared by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970, a teacher living environment. This date coincides with the spring in the Northern Hemisphere (Northern Hemisphere) and autumn in the southern hemisphere. United Nations celebrates Earth Day on March 20, a tradition that proclaimed peace activist John McConnell in 1969, is the day when the sun is directly over the equator which is often called the equinox of March.

  Earth Day is now celebrated in more than 175 countries and is coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network This support reaches its peak on April 22, 1970. When the history records of millions of people took to the streets, demonstrating and thronged Fifth Avenue in New York to denounce the destructive earth. TIME magazine estimates that approximately 20 million people took to the streets on 22 April 1970.

 
 This moment became a milestone diperingatinya as the first Earth Day. April 22 also coincides with the spring in the Northern Hemisphere (Northern Hemisphere) as well as the fall in the southern hemisphere. Since then, on April 22 each year Earth Day (Earth Day) is celebrated.

 
 History records, Earth Day is a campaign to encourage people care about the environment. Movement to raise awareness and appreciation of the human-occupied planet is Earth. Earth Day has become a global movement worldwide to date. Implementation worldwide dikordinasi by Earth Day Network's, a non-profit organization beraggotakan various NGOs around the world.

 
  The UN itself chose March 20, the time when the sun is directly above the equator as the Earth Day. This refers to the idea of ​​"the day the earth people" who initiated peace activist John McConnell. Today, better known as "Earth Day Equinoks" The United Nations commemorated each year since March 21, 1971. But the UN also recognizes April 22 as Earth Day is held globally. The UN officially celebrate 22 April as "International Mother Earth Day".

 First documentation of Earth Day on Earth

Earth Day at the Cleveland 22 april 1970

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Students from the University of Wisconsin Green Bay gathered at the first Earth Day in 1970.