Earth Day Info
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zhieHave seen this appearing on various journals, the whole 'was Earth Day founded by Gaylord Nelson or Ira the Murderer'? Well, I'm on the Gaylord side, and the following info posted below is the 'why' part... just feeling like after the research I put into this, I need to have it on my journal. ^_^
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This is a topic that I was really surprised to see being questioned – but, I have the unique pleasure of working with the granddaughter of Gaylord Nelson, and Earth Day is a topic we’ve obviously discussed. So, librarian I am, I had to do some digging, because this sounded a little too hoaxy for me...
Seattle, 1969 – Senator Gaylord Nelson calls for the first national Earth Day.
Pennsylvania, 1970 – A group of students decides to create and Earth Week, and promote Earth Day.
From the following article:
Furia, Edward W. "Earth Day: Another view." EPA Journal 16.1 (1990): 27. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 23 Apr. 2010.
Excerpt:
“Recently experienced a sense of deja vu when I gave an address about Earth Day at the Threshold National Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) Conference. I spoke to 1,600 student leaders of campus environmental organizations from 43 states who had converged at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for this conference.
A little more than 20 years before, I was among a group of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania City Planning School who met to discuss the famous 1969 Seattle speech of Senator Gaylord Nelson calling for the first national Earth Day. We responded by organizing the first Earth Week, a convocation on environmental issues that cut across racial, economic, and political boundaries and, for the first time, got ordinary people involved in environmental issues.
The recent Chapel Hill SEAC meeting was not just another conference. It was a historic event that marked the rebirth of environmentalism on college campuses. It may also have been the first real evidence since the 1960s of a rebirth of student political activism.
Unlike the budding "yuppie" stereotypes I expected to encounter--with ambitions consisting of an MBA, a job on Wall Street, and a BMW--these young people wanted to change the world. They seemed every bit as idealistic as their predecessor on 2,000 college campuses and in 10,000 high schools who, in 1970, took up the challenge of Earth Day and helped drive environmentalism into the mainstream of American consciousness.”
So, while Ira was probably involved in the planning of Earth Week, it’s very doubtful he was whispering sweet words of conservation into Gaylord Nelson’s ear in Seattle that previous autumn.
Also, this link is interesting:
http://www.amgot.org/einhorn/eday.htm
Note the first name listed on the letter, and the writer of the above article... ^_^
So, I’m calling this one a hoax. However, there still should be awareness of the horrible things he did, and how delusional people (making claims as he has) can get when they are like that.
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This is a topic that I was really surprised to see being questioned – but, I have the unique pleasure of working with the granddaughter of Gaylord Nelson, and Earth Day is a topic we’ve obviously discussed. So, librarian I am, I had to do some digging, because this sounded a little too hoaxy for me...
Seattle, 1969 – Senator Gaylord Nelson calls for the first national Earth Day.
Pennsylvania, 1970 – A group of students decides to create and Earth Week, and promote Earth Day.
From the following article:
Furia, Edward W. "Earth Day: Another view." EPA Journal 16.1 (1990): 27. Academic Search Complete. EBSCO. Web. 23 Apr. 2010.
Excerpt:
“Recently experienced a sense of deja vu when I gave an address about Earth Day at the Threshold National Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC) Conference. I spoke to 1,600 student leaders of campus environmental organizations from 43 states who had converged at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for this conference.
A little more than 20 years before, I was among a group of graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania City Planning School who met to discuss the famous 1969 Seattle speech of Senator Gaylord Nelson calling for the first national Earth Day. We responded by organizing the first Earth Week, a convocation on environmental issues that cut across racial, economic, and political boundaries and, for the first time, got ordinary people involved in environmental issues.
The recent Chapel Hill SEAC meeting was not just another conference. It was a historic event that marked the rebirth of environmentalism on college campuses. It may also have been the first real evidence since the 1960s of a rebirth of student political activism.
Unlike the budding "yuppie" stereotypes I expected to encounter--with ambitions consisting of an MBA, a job on Wall Street, and a BMW--these young people wanted to change the world. They seemed every bit as idealistic as their predecessor on 2,000 college campuses and in 10,000 high schools who, in 1970, took up the challenge of Earth Day and helped drive environmentalism into the mainstream of American consciousness.”
So, while Ira was probably involved in the planning of Earth Week, it’s very doubtful he was whispering sweet words of conservation into Gaylord Nelson’s ear in Seattle that previous autumn.
Also, this link is interesting:
http://www.amgot.org/einhorn/eday.htm
Note the first name listed on the letter, and the writer of the above article... ^_^
So, I’m calling this one a hoax. However, there still should be awareness of the horrible things he did, and how delusional people (making claims as he has) can get when they are like that.
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Date: 2010-04-23 12:21 pm (UTC)