American Beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1927-1997) reads a newspaper during the first Earth Day celebration in Philadelphia on April 22, 1970.Jack Rosen / Getty Images It also planted the seeds for Cottrell to become an environmental advocate. But as he walked Fairmount Park on a March day, he ...
000 copies in 24 countries.Then, according to the EPA, in the spring of 1970, Senator Gaylord Nelson created Earth Day as a way to bring the issue into the national spotlight. After 20 million