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Michener Elementary School first grader Joel Nieto, left, and second grade student Nevaeh Casarez, middle, earned statewide best marks for their posters submitted during Earth Day observances in ...
Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection.First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly Earth Day Network) [1] including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries.
Students from Cornerstone Learning Community in Florida planted wiregrass on Call to Earth Day. Together, they planted over 700 seeds to help restore the native wiregrass ecosystem.
The GLOBE Program provides the opportunity for students to learn by taking scientifically valid measurements in the fields of atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere, biosphere, and Earth as a system. Students report their data through the Internet, create maps and graphs to analyze data sets, and collaborate with scientists and other GLOBE ...
Since Earth's Birthday Project's founding in 1989, it is estimated that more than 15 million school children have participated in butterfly and sunflower activities, as well as rainforest and river conservation. In the late 1980s, as the twentieth anniversary of Earth Day approached, Cliff Ross was teaching middle school in New York City.
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World Environment Day was established in 1972 by the United Nations at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (5–16 June 1972), that had resulted from discussions on the integration of human interactions and the environment. One year later, in 1973, the first WED was held with the theme "Only One Earth". [6]
The pledge was first established at Humboldt State University, California, in 1987.It originated at a time when social responsibility became a widely discussed theme in the wake of 1978 reconstitution of Physicians for Social Responsibility to involve doctors in policy discussions about nuclear power, the 1981 founding of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and the socially ...