Earth Day

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
—Margaret Mead

April 22, 2020 marks the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. The roots of Earth Day stretch back to the mid 1960s to Rachel Carson and the publication of Silent Spring and to Senator Gaylord Nelson, a junior senator from Wisconsin, who witnessed the devastation of  a massive oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. Senator Nelson and others worked to focus the growing concern over water and air pollution first with campus teach in and later with events that reached a wide range of individuals, organizations, and others. The first Earth Day was born on 1970. For more information: https://www.earthday.org/history/