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Special education teacher Darcie Anderson coordinates the schoolwide poster initiative at Michener, which resulted in 30-40 student-made posters reflecting the importance of Earth Day. Staff ...
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.
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As a 16-year-old high school student, Betsy Boze, an environmental advocate and social activist, made a 3-by-5-foot (0.91 m × 1.52 m) green and white "theta" ecology flag to commemorate the first Earth Day (then called Ecology Day).
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.
'What is happening to our country?'
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 ...
Each day across America, in classrooms big and small, at city schools and rural ones students recite the pledge of allegiance. Let's go back in time: It's 1892 and Chicago is preparing for the ...