32 Facts About Earth Day

Earth Day hired a young activist, Denis Hayes, to be the National Coordinator.

Denis Hayes, organizer of the first Earth Day said that Senator Gaylord Nelson from Wisconsin was inspired to create Earth Day upon seeing Santa Barbara Channel 800 square-mile oil slick from an airplane.

Earth Day asked Republican Congressman Pete McCloskey to co-chair the board to ensure it was bipartisan and bicameral.

Earth Day became the national coordinator, and he quickly hired various regional coordinators, a press coordinator, a K-12 coordinator, a volunteer coordinator, etc.

Earth Day committed about half of all the money in the campaign's bank account to buy a full page in the Sunday New York Times opinion section.

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Overnight, "Earth Day" became the almost-universally-used name for the upcoming event.

Earth Day was a founding member of the Coalition for Clean Air, which successfully lobbied for the Clean Air Act of 1970.

The UAW financed, printed, and mailed all of the literature and other materials for the first Earth Day and mobilized its members to participate in the public demonstrations across the country.

Earth Day said that he would be delighted to accept money from clean sources, but no other corporate money was ever raised for the national organization.

Earth Day included events that focused on fighting freeways, protecting the ozone layer, organic food, whales and endangered species, oil spills, the military use of Agent Orange in Vietnam, overpopulation, peeling lead paint in ghetto housing, opposition to the supersonic transport, and myriad other topics.

Earth Day became fully engaged in supporting the event, and he delegated many of the talented young staff who had been drawn to his administration to help as well.

Earth Day 1990 employed strategies including focus group testing, direct mail fundraising, and email marketing.

For 2000, Earth Day had the internet to help link activists around the world.

Earth Day expanded into Europe for Earth Day 2006, and events and speeches were held in most of the EU countries.

Thousands of Earth Day projects were held across the globe that ranged from energy efficiency events, protests, letter writing campaigns, civic and environmental k-12 education trainings, urban and rural cleanups, and water projects with a particular focus on building a broader and more diverse environmental movement.

Many Earth Day events were held around the world from the Earth Day on Campus campaign.

Earth Day Network announced a partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment's Avatar Home Tree Initiative to plant one million trees in 15 countries by the end of 2010.

In partnership with the Peace Corps, Earth Day Network worked with local volunteers to implement environmental and civic education programs, tree plantings, village clean-ups, and recycling seminars in rural areas in Ukraine, the Philippines, Georgia, Albania, and Kolkata, India.

In 2010, Earth Day Network established a satellite office in Kolkata, India.

Goal of Earth Day 2013 was to personalize the massive challenge that climate change presents while uniting people around the globe into a powerful call to action with the theme: The Face of Climate Change.

Earth Day Network launched the Green Cities campaign in the fall of 2013 to help cities worldwide become more sustainable and reduce their carbon footprint.

Earth Day Network worked directly with major partners to garner large-scale commitments to stop climate change.

EDN developed an extensive global outreach strategy to promote Earth Day and assist organizations with producing a variety of actions, including teach-ins, in their own communities.

Earth Day Network partnered with Keep America Beautiful and National Cleanup Day for the inaugural nationwide Earth Day Clean Up.

Earth Day 2019 encouraged participants to protect threatened species through educational resources, tree plantings, and a climate action guide.

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Earth Day 2020 was a major topic across media platforms, including leading magazines and environmental publications such as Parade Magazine and The Times of India; television stations such as CBS and CNN; and many more.

Earth Day 2020 featured programs on education, faith, plastic cleanup, citizen science, reforestation, conservation, food and agriculture, art, green cities, and voter mobilization.

ORG and lead organizers, Education International, Hip Hop Caucus, and Earth Day Uprising organized three separate parallel climate action summits on climate literacy, environmental justice, and youth-led climate-focused issues.

The principal activities taking place on the first Earth Day included educational lectures given by experts in various environmental fields, garbage and litter pick-up by students along city roads and highways, and tree plantings to replace the trees killed by Dutch elm disease.

Earth Day is the first holy day which transcends all national borders, yet preserves all geographical integrities, spans mountains and oceans and time belts, and yet brings people all over the world into one resonating accord, is devoted to the preservation of the harmony in nature and yet draws upon the triumphs of technology, the measurement of time, and instantaneous communication through space.

At the moment of the equinox, it is traditional to observe Earth Day by ringing the Japanese Peace Bell, which Japan donated to the United Nations.

Earth Day ringing the peace bell is celebrated around the world in many towns, ringing the Peace Bell in Vienna, Berlin, and elsewhere.