Earth day is an annual event that celebrated every year on 22 April to demonstrate support for environmental protection. The mission to celebrate the earth day is to diversify, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Earthday.org is the world’s largest recruiter to the environmental movement, working with more than 150,000 partners in over 192 countries to drive positive action for our planet.
History
The first earth day was celebrated on 22 April 1970 as the earmark of the birth of the modern environmental movement. American Senator Gaylord Nelson, the junior senator from Wisconsin, had started the effort as he was concerned about the deteriorating environment in the United States. Then he and many others witnessed the ravages of massive oil spill in Santa Barbara of California in 1969. Inspired by the student’s anti-war movement, senator nelson wanted to infuse the energy of student’s anti-war protest with an emerging public consciousness about air and water pollution and he announced the idea for a teach-in on college campuses to the national media and persuaded Pete McCloskey. For his idea, senator recruited Denis Hayes, a young activist, to organize the campus teach-ins and to scale the idea to a broader public, and they choose April 22, a week day falling between Spring Break and Final Exams, to maximize the greatest student participation.
Hayes, bult a national staff of 85 to promote event across the land and effort soon broadened to include a wide range of organizations, faith groups and others. Then they changed the Name of movement to Earth Day, which immediately sparked national media attention and caught on across the globe. This incident of Erath Day inspired 20 million Americans. Then the people raised their voice in streets, parks and auditorium to demonstrate against the impacts of 150 years of industrial development which had left a growing legacy of serious human health impacts.