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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. [1] [2] [3]
The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement) is a social movement that aims to protect the natural world from harmful environmental practices in order to create sustainable living. [1]
In 1967, Roderick Nash published Wilderness and the American Mind, a work that has become a classic text of early environmental history.In an address to the Organization of American Historians in 1969 (published in 1970) Nash used the expression "environmental history", [4] although 1972 is generally taken as the date when the term was first coined. [5]
The first official Earth Day happened a year after his initial idea for a national teach-in, on April 22, 1970. The beauty of recycling: Practice your 'R's' for Earth Day Why is Earth Day on April 22?
For Earth Day on April 22, interesting facts including who invented it, why it's on that date, and how it turned into a global movement.
John McConnell was born on March 22, 1915, in Davis City, Iowa, United States.He was the son of a Pentecostal preacher [9] and traveling doctor. [6] His first interest in the Earth began in 1939 while partnering with Albert Nobell, a chemist, in the Nobell Research Laboratory in Los Angeles that built a factory for the manufacture of plastics. [6]
The Chinese Earth goddess Hou Tu [6] is similar to Gaia, the Greek goddess personifying the Earth. Bhumi Devi is the goddess of Earth in Hinduism, [7] influenced by Graha. The Tuluva people of Tulunadu in Southern India celebrate a Three Day "Earth Day" called Keddaso. This festival comes in usually on 10th,12th,13 February every Calendar year.
Morton Hilbert's work can be viewed at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. [3] He is referenced in the history of conservation and environmentalism movements in Michigan. [17] Recently, some have called for an increased awareness of Hilbert's role in the founding of Earth Day. [18]