地球日的由来 The History of Earth Day 世界地球日(Earth Day)即每年的4月22日,是一个专为世界环境保护而设立的节日,旨在提高民众对于现有环境问题的意识,并动员民众参与到环保运动中,通过绿色低碳生活,改善地球的整体环境。 Earth Day is the name given to two different annual observances that are intended ...
He wrote letters to all of the colleges and put a special article in Scholastic Magazine to tell them about the special day he had planned. (Most of the schools got this magazine and he knew that kids would help him.) On April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day was held. People all ...
Earth Day, annual celebration honoring the achievements of the environmental movement and raising awareness of the importance of long-term ecological sustainability. It is celebrated on either April 22 or the day the vernal equinox occurs. Learn more abo
Earth Day: just as Earth Day 1970 was a tipping point, today we face a similar moment in environmental history.(Back Trails: Perspectives on People and Nature)Grannis, Pete
New Yorkers rollerskate in New York City on Earth Day, 1970. Peter Cohen of the University of Colorado leads 260 cyclists in the "Bike Hike." Starting the previous weekend leading up to the first Earth Day, a small unit of student cyclists left Boulder. Others joined in Fort Collins, Gre...
Americans celebrated the first Earth Day in April 1970, and Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act that same year. The Endangered Species Act and the Clean Water Act soon followed. The OPEC oil embargo and subsequent energy crisis of the 1970s drew further attention to the issues...
History of the Holiday So how did this Earth Day extravaganza come to be? The first Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970. A senator named Gaylord Nelson was very concerned about the environment and how it was being destroyed by people and industries. He felt that a day should be ...
1970s.•Thetitlesof theseessaysindicatethat the terms in whichhistorianswere writing aboutabstractexpressionismhad refocusedart history.•Despite these importantdifferences, theoriginaldocklandareas sharedsimilareconomic histories.•To understand thesourcesof the new ways of life, we must turn toeconomic...
U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI), a promoter of the first Earth Day in 1970, would later invoke the Cuyahoga-in-flames as an example of the nation’s most severe environmental disasters. Carol Browner, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the 1990s, would also recall ...
Cities have existed in the area since the 11th centurybce.Chang’anCheng (“Walled City of Chang’an”), built in 202bcejust northwest of present-day Xi’an, was the capital of the Xi (Western)Han dynasty(206bce–25ce) and was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world. It was...