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People were starting to worry about air and water pollution. There had been a big oil spill the year before in Santa Barbara, California, and US Senator Gaylord Nelson thought that a special day would gather the energy of Americans. Twenty million people gathered that first Earth Day all across America. April 22, 1970.
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∙ 9y agoIn 1970 people were starting to worry about air and water pollution. There had been a big oil spill the year before in Santa Barbara, California, and US Senator Gaylord Nelson thought that a special day would gather the energy of Americans. Twenty million people gathered that first Earth Day all across America. April 22, 1970.
the idea for Earth Day evolved over a period of seven years starting in 1962. 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.
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∙ 13y agoIt started on April 22 1970, and it was created to let people know about to environmental issues, and care for the Earth.
I think it's stupid because one day of caring for the earth isn't gonna make up for 364 days of not caring for it. You should make every day earth day.
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∙ 10y agoTo help save the environment!!
It was founded in April 22,1970
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∙ 15y agoit is a day about when we should try our hardest to try to conserve water and recycle dont just be green live green
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∙ 14y agoEarth Day came from the people that started to clean up and help the Earth!
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∙ 13y agoGaylord Neilson...the senator of Widconsin.(:
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Senator Gaylord Nelson (the main founder of Earth Day) had a colleague that had a birthday on earth day so after much thinking and some help he came up with earth day
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Who coined the term Earth Day?
Earth Day was invented by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson on April 22, 1970. You can probably assume he came up with the name.
