Have you wondered why Google Logo is designed like this in this special day?
On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day. It was a time when cities were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire. Now Earth Day is celebrated annually around the globe. Through the combined efforts of the U.S. government, grassroots organizations, and citizens like you, what started as a day of national environmental recognition has evolved into a world-wide campaign to protect our global environment.
Earth Day is important because it reminds us to look at the problems of our environment. We need to make plans to recycle materials that are recyclable and to clean up
our rivers, streams, lakes and oceans. Pollution is causing danger to the air we breathe, our
soil, and our water sources. Industries, automobiles, and others are releasing dangerous
smoke in our atmosphere and the air we breathe. This can cause us health problems.
Each of us must do our part to recycle and reuse products instead of throwing them away.
Earth Day is now celebrated each year on April 22nd. Think about what you can do to celebrate Earth Day this year. We can all do something.
The significance of the date:
* April 22 is the birthday of American television star Eddie Albert, an early environmental activist.
* April 22 is also the birthday of Julius Sterling Morton, the founder of Arbor Day, a national tree-planting holiday started in 1872. Arbor Day became a legal holiday in Nebraska in 1885, to be permanently observed on April 22. According to the National Arbor Day Foundation “the most common day for the state observances is the last Friday in April . . . but a number of state Arbor Days are at other times to coincide with the best tree planting weather.” It has since been largely eclipsed by the more widely observed Earth Day, except in Nebraska, where it originated.
* April 22 1970 was the 100th birthday of Vladmir Lenin. Time reported that some suspected the date was not a coincidence, but a clue that the event was “a Communist trick” – then quoted a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution complaining that, “Subversive elements plan to make American children live in an environment that is good for them.” J. Edgar Hoover may have found the Lenin connection intriguing. The idea that the date was chosen to celebrate Lenin‘s centenary still persists in some quarters, although Lenin was never noted for his environmental credentials.
Learn about the history of Earth Day.
This post was written by bullets on April 22, 2007
