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Earth DayAlpha Environmental Management Corporation Newsletter Earth Day is celebrated in the US on April 22, and is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's Environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gay1ord Nelson an environmental teach-in in 1970 and is celebrated in many countries every year. This date is spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. The United Nations celebrates an Earth Day each year on the March equinox, which is often March 20, a tradition which was founded by peace activist John McConnell in 1969. Ever Wonder How EARTH DAY got its start? Here is the History:In September 1969 at a conference in Seattle, Washington, U.S, Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announced that in spring 1970, there would be a nationwide grass roots demonstration on the environment. This occurred during a time of great concern about over-population and when there was a strong movement toward. "Zero Population Growth" Nelson viewed the stabilization of the nation's population as an important aspect of environmentalism and later said: “The bigger the population gets, the more serious the problems become... We have to address the population issue, The United Kingdom, with the U.S. supporting it, took the position in Cairo in 1994 that every country was responsible for stabilizing its own population, it can be done, but in this country, it's phony to say I'm for the environment but not for limiting immigration". Senator Nelson first proposed the nationwide environmental protest to thrust the environment onto the notional agenda," "It was a gamble," he recalled “but it worked”. Ron Cobb created an ecology symbol, which was later adopted as the Earth Day symbol, and was published on November 7th, 1969, in the Los Angeles Free Press and then placed it in the public domain. The symbol was a combination of the letters "E" and "0" taken from the word. "Environment" and "Organism", respectively, Look Magazine incorporated the symbol into a flag in their April 21, 1970 issue. The flag was patterned after the flag of the United States and had thirteen stripes alternating green and white. Its canton was green with the ecology symbol ""here the stars would be in the United States flag, Five months before the first April 22 Earth Day, on around November 30, 1969, The New York Times carried a lengthy article by Gladwin Hill reporting on the rising hysteria of “global cooling”. Alpha EMC is an Environmental Management Corporation that works to create partnerships to guide and manage areas of environmental and safety compliance issues. Contact us for more information regarding our services. |
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