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Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:


<big><big><big>[[Planet Citizens]]</big></big></big>
: The following Earth Day page retraces footsteps of a Pro-peace, Anti-war movement that led to the first "Earth Day"


:[http://www.nasa.gov/content/celebrating-earths-beauty/ <big>Celebrating Earth's Beauty</big>]
:: A US Senator (Gaylord Nelson) and a US Congressmen (George E. Brown) step up in support of our student organizing and calls-to-action.


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::: The [https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Union_Oil_Spill_On_the_Calif_Coast_-_January_1969.png '''historic oil spill'''] in January 1969 that devastated the California coastline surrounding Santa Barbara-Ventura escalated environmental awareness in California and across the U.S. within a new environmental protection movement.


::: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylord_Nelson '''Senator Gaylord Nelson'''] soon became a central figure in the environmental activism of California students. Here are a set of personal recollections from those days -- [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/index.php?title=Special:Search&profile=images&search=Senator%20Gaylord%20Nelson&fulltext=1 '''media archive pages'''] featuring Senator Nelson. The peace work as college students that we were doing in 1969 served as his inspiration, the Senator said and wrote. The good Senator and his political work became key in creating what became known as '''Earth Day'''.




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<big>'''A First [[Earth Day]]'''</big>


: We brought it -- youthful energy, events, 'Teach-ins', and an ongoing environmental movement


:[[File:PlanetCitizen - Your Moment on Earth.jpg]]
: * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day


: * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day


::[[File:Goodall on the power of the young.png]]




'''Senator Nelson''', often credited with having proposed the first "Earth Day", was listening to us. We and Congressional friends were talking to him, meetings were held, conversations conducted during his California visits in 1968-70, and in Washington DC beginning in 1968. We spoke to him about our organizing, pro-peace and our shifting to 'green',  pro- environmental protection work. Students were in front, organizing in California and across the nation, as millions came out in 1969 and 1970 Vietnam Moratorium and peace rallies. A 'whole earth, pro-life' environmental movement sprung first-ever images delivered by NASA's Apollo program, and arising from a 1968 student-led campaign waged. Student activists moved powerfully. Political figures and forces responded ...


Your GreenPolicy360 Siterunner is remembering Congressional Representatives with names like Nelson, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''Brown (George E)'''], [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Pete_McCloskey,_a_Key_Supporter_of_the_First_Earth_Day.png '''McCloskey (Pete)'''], Lowenstein (Allard), Riegle (Donald), McCarthy (Eugene), Morris (Wayne) became our allies...


[[File:Earth Day - Green Policy.png]]
Senator Nelson, an eco-voyager, watched, met with, and listened to us during those years and then told the world how much we influenced him. He spoke of the genesis of his Earth Day proposal, pointing at student activism against the war, environmental activism against the historic oil spill along the coast of California ...  


"If we could tap into the environmental concerns of the general public and infuse student energy into the environmental cause, we could generate a demonstration that would force the issue onto the national political agenda," Senator Bill Nelson (D-WI) said after one of his 1969 trips to California.


The day after the October 1969 rallies/teach-ins/demonstrations/marches that brought millions out against the war in Vietnam, [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:USC_Daily_Trojan_Sen_Nelson_speech_day_after_first_Earth_Day_.jpg '''Senator Nelson made a special trip to Los Angeles to speak to us at the University of Southern California.'''] He told us we can bring positive change and to keep on doing what we where doing.


<big><big>'''The First "Earth Day", April 22, 1970'''</big></big>
"I am convinced that the same concern the youth of this nation took in changing this nation's priorities on the war in Vietnam and on civil rights can be shown for the problems of the environment. Successful teach-ins on all campuses on the same day will have a dramatic impact on the environmental conscience of the nation. They will be immensely effective as an educational effort in arousing public opinion..."  


Senator Nelson's staff described the work as a "Mass Movement" back then. The Senator received "500 invitations" to speak on the first "Earth Day". He accepted ours and flew to LA to say 'thank you'.


SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:


: The following Earth Day page retraces footsteps of a Pro-peace, Anti-war movement that led to the first "Earth Day"


:: A US Senator (Gaylord Nelson), a US Congressmen (George E. Brown) step up in support of our student organizing and calls-to-action
:::::[[File:Apollo 8, Life Jan10,1969.png]]


::: An historic oil spill in January 1969 hits the California coastline and escalates environmental awareness in California and across the U.S. 
:::::<small>December 1968, 'Earthrise', Apollo 8, NASA</small>




:::[[File:Union Oil Spill On the Calif Coast - January 1969.png]]


[https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf <big>'''Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement'''</big>]


::::[[File:Nelson, the oil spill and the student anti-war movement.png]]
:<small>* https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf </small>




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Steven Schmidt/GreenPolicy360 Founder: '''Senator Bill Nelson''', often credited with having proposed the first "Earth Day", was listening to us. We and Congressional friends were talking to him, meetings were held, conversations conducted during his California visits in 1968-70, and in Washington DC beginning in 1968. We spoke to him about our organizing, pro-peace and our shifting to 'green',  pro- environmental protection work. Students were in front, organizing in California and across the nation, as millions came out in 1969 and 1970 Vietnam Moratorium and peace rallies. A 'whole earth, pro-life' environmental movement sprung first-ever images delivered by NASA's Apollo program, and arising from a 1968 student-led campaign waged. Student activists moved powerfully. Political figures and forces responded ...
==<big><big>Planet Citizens</big></big>==


Your GreenPolicy360 Siterunner is remembering Congressional Representatives with names like Nelson, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''Brown (George E)'''], [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Pete_McCloskey,_a_Key_Supporter_of_the_First_Earth_Day.png '''McCloskey (Pete)'''], Lowenstein (Allard), Riegle (Donald), McCarthy (Eugene), Morris (Wayne) became our allies...  
* http://planetcitizens.org


Senator Nelson, an eco-voyager, watched, met with, and listened to us during those years and then told the world how much we influenced him. He spoke of the genesis of his Earth Day proposal, pointing at student activism against the war, environmental activism against the historic oil spill along the coast of California ...
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"If we could tap into the environmental concerns of the general public and infuse student energy into the environmental cause, we could generate a demonstration that would force the issue onto the national political agenda," Senator Bill Nelson (D-WI) said after one of his 1969 trips to California.
::::::<big><big>'''Earthrise to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day Earth Day]'''</big></big>


The day after the October 1969 rallies/teach-ins/demonstrations/marches that brought millions out against the war in Vietnam, [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:USC_Daily_Trojan_Sen_Nelson_speech_day_after_first_Earth_Day_.jpg '''Senator Nelson made a special trip to Los Angeles to speak to us at the University of Southern California.'''] He told us we can bring positive change and to keep on doing what we where doing.


"I am convinced that the same concern the youth of this nation took in changing this nation's priorities on the war in Vietnam and on civil rights can be shown for the problems of the environment. Successful teach-ins on all campuses on the same day will have a dramatic impact on the environmental conscience of the nation. They will be immensely effective as an educational effort in arousing public opinion..."
:::::::[[File:Earth Day Flag.png]]


Senator Nelson's staff described the work as a "Mass Movement" back then. The Senator received "500 invitations" to speak on the first "Earth Day". He accepted ours and flew to LA to say 'thank you'.
:::::::<big>"Earth Day Flag"</big>


<small>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:USC_Daily_Trojan_Sen_Nelson_speech_day_after_first_Earth_Day_.jpg</small>
:::::::* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement
:::::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day
:::::::* http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement


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[[File:Sen Nelson Earth Day newsletter 1970.jpg]]
:::::::<big>"Every day is Earth Day"</big>


:::::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary</small>
:::::::* <small>https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Youth
:::::::* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Day_at_the_US_Capitol.jpg
:::::::* https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a011800/a011858/Earth_from_Orbit_2014_prores.webm




<big>'''Let's look back, 50+ years...'''</big>


[[File:PlanetCitizen - Your Moment on Earth.jpg]]


:: <big>'''DYK? Yes, we do know, and we remember what we did to set a whole earth vision in motion ! '''</big>


:: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf <big>'''Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement'''</big>]


:: [[File:Christina Korp Earth Day and Apollo 8.jpg]]
[[File:Earth Day - Green Policy.png]]






:: [[Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary]]


:: [[File:Earth Day 50th Golden Anniversary.gif]]
[[File:Earth Emoji 2.png]]




:: <small>Earth Day 2020
:: 50th Anniversary of first Earth Day "Teach-In" / April 22, 1970</small>


:: <small>Art by Olivia Schmidt / BY-NC
<big><big>'''The First "Earth Day", April 22, 1970'''</big></big>
:: Creative Commons / Use w/ Attribution + Non-commercial</small>  




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<big><big>'''Let's look back, 50+ years...'''</big></big>


::<big><big>'''On the 50th Anniversary''' (2020)</big></big>


::<big><big>Memories on the Road to the First Earth Day</big></big>  
[https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf <big>'''Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement'''</big>]


: [[File:Christina Korp Earth Day and Apollo 8.jpg]]


'''The Vietnam Moratorium and how it led to the First Earth Day'''


* <small>• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary</small>
: <big>'''DYK? Do you know? Yes, we do know...'''</big>  


:: Remembering what we did to set a whole earth vision and movement in motion !


:: <small>* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Christina_Korp_Earth_Day_and_Apollo_8.jpg</small>




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:: [[Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary]]


:: [[File:Earth Day 50th Golden Anniversary.gif]]




<big>'''In 2023 on Earth Day, the Story Continues, Recalling 50+ Years of Environmental Organizing'''</big>
:: <small>Earth Day 2020
:: 50th Anniversary of first Earth Day "Teach-In" / April 22, 1970</small>


:: <small>Art by Olivia Schmidt / BY-NC
:: Creative Commons / Use w/ Attribution + Non-commercial</small>


[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg]]
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::<big><big>'''On the 50th Anniversary''' (2020)</big></big>


'''Remembering Earth's Day inspiration -- [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg 'Earthrise', Apollo 8, December 1968]'''
::<big><big>Memories on the Road to the First Earth Day</big></big>


:: * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary


[[File:Apollo.jpg]]


'''The Vietnam Moratorium and how it led to the First Earth Day'''


[[File:Earth Day 2013 Google Doodle.png|link=http://www.planetcitizens.org]]'''
: <small>* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Vietnam_Moratorium_for_Peace_1969-1970</small>




'''April 22, 2023'''


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<big>'''Mainstream Media Covers Earth Day Events in 2023'''</big>


: Eco-Politics in the News, Links, Support and Resistance
[[File:Earth Day 50 years on.jpg]]


: 1970 - 2023 as Environmental Protection Moves On and On ...
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Day_50_years_on.jpg Via the Los Angeles Times]


* https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/documentaries-to-watch-for-earth-day-streaming/


* https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/climate/earth-day-reads.html
(LA Times, 2020): ''On an August day in 1969, Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin, was in Santa Barbara inspecting what he later described as “that awful oil spill” and “puzzling about what could be done to bring public opinion to bear on the lethargic political community.” Over the next month he hatched a plan. Teach-ins — sit-ins that offered lessons about specific topics — were the rage in the activist 1960s, and Nelson wondered what might happen if the whole country engaged in a teach-in on how human activity imperiled the natural world. Thus Earth Day was born, and 50 years ago today some 20 million people — a tenth of the U.S. population — gathered at thousands of local events, propelling concerns about the environment onto the national agenda, where it’s been ever since.''


* https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/its-earth-day-and-the-news-isnt-good


* https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/22/appalling-earth-day-greenwashing-a-risk-to-progress-says-protest-founder-aoe
[[File:Nelson, the oil spill and the student anti-war movement.png]]


* https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3963816-this-earth-day-a-major-climate-decision-looms-for-biden/


* https://globalocean.noaa.gov/global-ocean-observing-for-earth-day/


[[File:Earth Emoji 2.png]]


* https://www.nrdc.org/stories/story-silent-spring


* https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/special-message-the-congress-environmental-quality


<big>'''In 2023 on Earth Day, the Story Continues, Recalling 50+ Years of Environmental Organizing'''</big>


* https://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa


* https://www.earthday.org/history/
[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg]]


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Env_policy_laws_US_%27the_beginning%27_of_env_era.jpg


* https://nelsonearthday.net/gaylord-nelson-earth-day-origins/
'''Remembering Earth's Day inspiration -- [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg 'Earthrise', Apollo 8, December 1968]'''


* https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/04/21/executive-order-on-revitalizing-our-nations-commitment-to-environmental-justice-for-all/


[[File:Apollo.jpg]]


And... in Washington DC, threats to historic climate legislation


<small>* https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/20/house-gop-debt-limit-plan-inflation-reduction-act-00092891</small>




[[File:Earth Emoji 2.png]]


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Apollo 8 and its famed Earthrise image took place in December 1968. The first [[Earth Day]] took place in April 1970. Youthful energy was in full view. And Senator Nelson and Congressman Brown thanked us at USC.


[[File:Vietnam Moratorium Committee-Documentary Intro.jpg]]


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLCWEU-6qA&t=32s <small>Looking Back: @USC organizing the California anti-war movement/a USC Cinema Dept. film of the Moratorium</small>]
<small>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:USC_Daily_Trojan_Sen_Nelson_speech_day_after_first_Earth_Day_.jpg</small>


: <small>• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Moratorium_October_15_1969.jpg</small>


[[File:Sen Nelson Earth Day newsletter 1970.jpg]]


<big>'''A Personal Story, Your GreenPolicy360 Siterunner,  Reflections of Olden Days - 1969/70/71'''</big>


By Steven Schmidt / [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/User:Siterunner GreenPolicy360 Siterunner]


: <small>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf</small>
<big><big>'''Flash Forward to 2023, 50+ Years after the First Earth Day'''</big></big>  




'''Vietnam Moratorium Organizing 1969-70'''
[[File:Earth Day 2013 Google Doodle.png|link=http://www.planetcitizens.org]]'''


• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Vietnam_Moratorium_Committee-Documentary_Intro.jpg


• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wLCWEU-6qA&t=32s


• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Moratorium_October_15_1969.jpg
<big>'''Mainstream Media Covers Earth Day Events in 2023'''</big>


• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Doomsday_Machine-Daniel_Ellsberg-Recalling_the_Vietnam_Moratorium_Oct-Nov_1969.jpg
: Eco-Politics in the News, Links, Support and Resistance


• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Moratorium_memory,_Dan-Steve,_Doomsday_Machine_inscription.jpg
: 1970 - 2023 as Environmental Protection Moves On and On ...


• https://www.strategicdemands.com/doomsday-machine/
* https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/documentaries-to-watch-for-earth-day-streaming/


* https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/climate/earth-day-reads.html


'''Attempting to Turn from War to Peace'''
* https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/its-earth-day-and-the-news-isnt-good


: An Environmental Movement in the Making
* https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/22/appalling-earth-day-greenwashing-a-risk-to-progress-says-protest-founder-aoe


: #PlanetCitizen | #PlanetCitizens | #PlanetCitizensPlanetScientists
* https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/3963816-this-earth-day-a-major-climate-decision-looms-for-biden/


* https://globalocean.noaa.gov/global-ocean-observing-for-earth-day/


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Oct_15,_1969,_Vietnam_Moratorium_Day_in_memory.jpg October 15, 1969 - In Memory]


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:USC_Daily_Trojan_Sen_Nelson_speech_day_after_first_Earth_Day_.jpg Senator Nelson, founder of Earth Day at USC]
* https://www.nrdc.org/stories/story-silent-spring


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr Congressman George E. Brown, East LA, with an environmental agenda]
* https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/special-message-the-congress-environmental-quality


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement Looking back at the beginning of the modern environmental movement]


* https://www.epa.gov/history/origins-epa


SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:
* https://www.earthday.org/history/


Throughout 1969 and 1970, our student movement organized both pro-peace Vietnam Moratorium actions and pro-environmental protection actions. Two U.S. Representatives were central in the work -- George E. Brown and Gaylord Nelson. Another Representative who helped us was Pete McCloskey. There are many stories of meetings, and organizing, and networking, and coordinating -- often called "grassroots" and up... We saw our efforts picked up in the press and by the media, by churches and labor, and business leaders, the work was looking to find wide support. Many responded, millions came out to express their feelings and beliefs.
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Env_policy_laws_US_%27the_beginning%27_of_env_era.jpg


On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, a beginning of green ideals and ideas emerged in a serious way... Today Earth Day continues on as a movement and a political cause. Now we are a diverse mix, across the globe, employing the Internet with many voices, colors, ages, especially young people joining in. We continue on year after year, decade after decade.... We are strongly confronting and working to solve our generation's existential challenges. Reaching across our home planet, touching and interacting with planet citizens, looking to share solutions to pressing problems and challenges.
* https://nelsonearthday.net/gaylord-nelson-earth-day-origins/


* https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2023/04/21/executive-order-on-revitalizing-our-nations-commitment-to-environmental-justice-for-all/


<big>'''[[Generation Green]]'''</big>


And... in Washington DC, threats to historic climate legislation


Environmentalism took on new forms and shapes with ideas that became a legal platform, a first generation of environmental laws that would go worldwide. A new [https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Counterculture+of+the+1960s "counterculture" with youthful vision and organizing] added their voices and stood up to create the beginnings of a global environmental movement. 
<small>* https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/20/house-gop-debt-limit-plan-inflation-reduction-act-00092891</small>


With a goal of protecting life, a new environmental movement began to grow, a [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth "Whole Earth" vision] seen for the first time from space in 1968 with the iconic [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_8 Apollo 8 Earthrise image] and a very real 'sense' of our common responsibility for the future of the planet. Students were 'first-movers' who spoke of the existential threat of nuclear war and environmental disaster, and need to 'become' far-reaching with a new vision. Realizations grew internationally that we had created weapons capable of ending humanity and most all life of earth -- and we needed to change this nuclear doomsday threat. Protests and 'teach ins', led by students, and drawing in politicians, communities, media, news with pamphlets, books, music, art and demonstrations crossed continents with new symbols, peace symbols, environmental and eco-awareness.




The threads of teach-ins led directly to and [http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement the first Earth Day] in 1970 as students expanded counterculture with action.


'''Across the U.S., a first Earth Day of teach-ins began as a student-initiated movement on college campuses including your siterunner's college where we proposed an environment and peace action day to Senator Nelson, who we met as we organized the national Moratorium and who worked with us to make an Earth Day a national political event. '''
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'''[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:USC_Daily_Trojan_Sen_Nelson_speech_day_after_first_Earth_Day_.jpg We invited Senator Nelson to speak at the University of Southern California] for Earth Day and he agreed. Students who organized pro-peace and then pro-environment actions, as the Senator explained, inspired him to propose a national environmental action. The peace activists of the 1969 Vietnam war moratorium shared a positive vision of what was needed and he listened. In California meetings, he listened. Environmental protection, economic and social justice, new priorities added to the nation's agenda. The work spread quickly. A foundation of organizing sprang into action and Earth Day's teach-ins reached out to students and new networks formed globally. A worldwide environmental movement became a real and growing political force...'''
 
 
Senator Nelson, an eco-voyager who watched, met with, and listened to us:
 
'''''"I am convinced that the same concern the youth of this nation took in changing this nation's priorities on the war in Vietnam and on civil rights can be shown for the problems of the environment. Successful teach-ins on all campuses on the same day will have a dramatic impact on the environmental conscience of the nation. They will be immensely effective as an educational effort in arousing public opinion..."'''''


"If we could tap into the environmental concerns of the general public and infuse student energy into the environmental cause, we could generate a demonstration that would force the issue onto the national political agenda," Senator Bill Nelson (D-WI) said after one of his 1969 trips to California.






🌎
[[File:Earth-Day.png]]




<big><big>Earth Day -- April 22, 1970</big></big>


<big>April 22, 2020 -- 50 Years On</big>
<big><big>Reflections from Students Producing the First Earth Day -- April 22, 1970</big></big>




[http://www.bioneers.org Bioneers] interview with Hispanic activist Arturo Sandoval:  
[http://www.bioneers.org '''Bioneers'''] interview with Hispanic activist Arturo Sandoval:  


You were part of Denis Hayes’ team that produced the first Earth Day in 1970. What was that experience like?
You were part of Denis Hayes’ team that produced the first Earth Day in 1970. What was that experience like?
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[[File:Earth Day 50 years on.jpg]]
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Day_50_years_on.jpg Via the Los Angeles Times]
(LA Times, 2020): ''On an August day in 1969, Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin, was in Santa Barbara inspecting what he later described as “that awful oil spill” and “puzzling about what could be done to bring public opinion to bear on the lethargic political community.” Over the next month he hatched a plan. Teach-ins — sit-ins that offered lessons about specific topics — were the rage in the activist 1960s, and Nelson wondered what might happen if the whole country engaged in a teach-in on how human activity imperiled the natural world. Thus Earth Day was born, and 50 years ago today some 20 million people — a tenth of the U.S. population — gathered at thousands of local events, propelling concerns about the environment onto the national agenda, where it’s been ever since.''
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<big><big><big>[[Earth Right Now]]</big></big></big>
<big><big><big>[[Earth Right Now]]</big></big></big>
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:::::::[[File:Apollo 8, Life Jan10,1969.png]]
 
:::::::<small>'Earthrise', Apollo 8, NASA</small>
 
 
::::::::<big>'''Earthrise to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day Earth Day]'''</big>
 
 
::::::::[[File:Earth Day Flag.png]]
 
::::::::<small>"Earth Day Flag"</small>
 
 
::::::::* http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement
 
::::::::* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement
 
 
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Latest revision as of 17:16, 13 May 2024

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Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

The following Earth Day page retraces footsteps of a Pro-peace, Anti-war movement that led to the first "Earth Day"
A US Senator (Gaylord Nelson) and a US Congressmen (George E. Brown) step up in support of our student organizing and calls-to-action.
The historic oil spill in January 1969 that devastated the California coastline surrounding Santa Barbara-Ventura escalated environmental awareness in California and across the U.S. within a new environmental protection movement.
Senator Gaylord Nelson soon became a central figure in the environmental activism of California students. Here are a set of personal recollections from those days -- media archive pages featuring Senator Nelson. The peace work as college students that we were doing in 1969 served as his inspiration, the Senator said and wrote. The good Senator and his political work became key in creating what became known as Earth Day.


A First Earth Day

We brought it -- youthful energy, events, 'Teach-ins', and an ongoing environmental movement
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day


Senator Nelson, often credited with having proposed the first "Earth Day", was listening to us. We and Congressional friends were talking to him, meetings were held, conversations conducted during his California visits in 1968-70, and in Washington DC beginning in 1968. We spoke to him about our organizing, pro-peace and our shifting to 'green', pro- environmental protection work. Students were in front, organizing in California and across the nation, as millions came out in 1969 and 1970 Vietnam Moratorium and peace rallies. A 'whole earth, pro-life' environmental movement sprung first-ever images delivered by NASA's Apollo program, and arising from a 1968 student-led campaign waged. Student activists moved powerfully. Political figures and forces responded ...

Your GreenPolicy360 Siterunner is remembering Congressional Representatives with names like Nelson, Brown (George E), McCloskey (Pete), Lowenstein (Allard), Riegle (Donald), McCarthy (Eugene), Morris (Wayne) became our allies...

Senator Nelson, an eco-voyager, watched, met with, and listened to us during those years and then told the world how much we influenced him. He spoke of the genesis of his Earth Day proposal, pointing at student activism against the war, environmental activism against the historic oil spill along the coast of California ...

"If we could tap into the environmental concerns of the general public and infuse student energy into the environmental cause, we could generate a demonstration that would force the issue onto the national political agenda," Senator Bill Nelson (D-WI) said after one of his 1969 trips to California.

The day after the October 1969 rallies/teach-ins/demonstrations/marches that brought millions out against the war in Vietnam, Senator Nelson made a special trip to Los Angeles to speak to us at the University of Southern California. He told us we can bring positive change and to keep on doing what we where doing.

"I am convinced that the same concern the youth of this nation took in changing this nation's priorities on the war in Vietnam and on civil rights can be shown for the problems of the environment. Successful teach-ins on all campuses on the same day will have a dramatic impact on the environmental conscience of the nation. They will be immensely effective as an educational effort in arousing public opinion..."

Senator Nelson's staff described the work as a "Mass Movement" back then. The Senator received "500 invitations" to speak on the first "Earth Day". He accepted ours and flew to LA to say 'thank you'.


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December 1968, 'Earthrise', Apollo 8, NASA


Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement

* https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf


 

Planet Citizens

 

Earthrise to Earth Day


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"Earth Day Flag"

 

"Every day is Earth Day"


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The First "Earth Day", April 22, 1970


Let's look back, 50+ years...


Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement

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DYK? Do you know? Yes, we do know...
Remembering what we did to set a whole earth vision and movement in motion !
* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Christina_Korp_Earth_Day_and_Apollo_8.jpg


Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary
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Earth Day 2020
50th Anniversary of first Earth Day "Teach-In" / April 22, 1970
Art by Olivia Schmidt / BY-NC
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On the 50th Anniversary (2020)
Memories on the Road to the First Earth Day
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary


The Vietnam Moratorium and how it led to the First Earth Day

* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Vietnam_Moratorium_for_Peace_1969-1970


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Via the Los Angeles Times


(LA Times, 2020): On an August day in 1969, Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a Democrat from Wisconsin, was in Santa Barbara inspecting what he later described as “that awful oil spill” and “puzzling about what could be done to bring public opinion to bear on the lethargic political community.” Over the next month he hatched a plan. Teach-ins — sit-ins that offered lessons about specific topics — were the rage in the activist 1960s, and Nelson wondered what might happen if the whole country engaged in a teach-in on how human activity imperiled the natural world. Thus Earth Day was born, and 50 years ago today some 20 million people — a tenth of the U.S. population — gathered at thousands of local events, propelling concerns about the environment onto the national agenda, where it’s been ever since.


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In 2023 on Earth Day, the Story Continues, Recalling 50+ Years of Environmental Organizing


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Remembering Earth's Day inspiration -- 'Earthrise', Apollo 8, December 1968


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Apollo 8 and its famed Earthrise image took place in December 1968. The first Earth Day took place in April 1970. Youthful energy was in full view. And Senator Nelson and Congressman Brown thanked us at USC.


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:USC_Daily_Trojan_Sen_Nelson_speech_day_after_first_Earth_Day_.jpg


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Flash Forward to 2023, 50+ Years after the First Earth Day


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Mainstream Media Covers Earth Day Events in 2023

Eco-Politics in the News, Links, Support and Resistance
1970 - 2023 as Environmental Protection Moves On and On ...




And... in Washington DC, threats to historic climate legislation

* https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/20/house-gop-debt-limit-plan-inflation-reduction-act-00092891



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Reflections from Students Producing the First Earth Day -- April 22, 1970


Bioneers interview with Hispanic activist Arturo Sandoval:

You were part of Denis Hayes’ team that produced the first Earth Day in 1970. What was that experience like?

ARTURO: It was my first time organizing on a national level. I worked with a very bright team. It was lots of work. It was very exhilarating. It completely exceeded anything we hoped to achieve. It was like holding onto the tail of the tiger. We were basically just trying to stay out of the way of a freight train coming down the tracks because the response to the first Earth Day was so overwhelming. It was huge. It was just unbelievable, and took everything we had to just try to connect the dots and get information out to the people and not get in their way.

 


Earth Right Now

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○ "To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ..." -- NASA Original Mission Statement (1958)

○ "You can manage only what you can measure." -- NASA, Earth Right Now Science Program

 

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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth


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