Earth Day | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Earth Day


00:01:55 1 Santa Barbara Oil Blowout 1969
00:02:54 2 Santa Barbara’s Environmental Rights Day 1970
00:04:32 3 Earth Day 1970
00:05:40 3.1 New York City
00:07:01 3.2 Philadelphia
00:07:33 4 Earth Day 1990
00:10:45 5 Earth Day 2000
00:11:37 6 Subsequent Earth Day events
00:13:55 7 The Earth Day name
00:15:08 8 Earth Day Canada
00:16:03 9 History of the Equinox Earth Day (March 20)
00:20:05 10 April 22 observances
00:20:15 10.1 Growing eco-activism before Earth Day 1970
00:21:39 10.2 Significance of April 22
00:24:03 11 Earth Day songs



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Earth Day is an annual event celebrated on April 22.  Worldwide, various events are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, Earth Day now includes events in more than 193 countries, which are now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network.On Earth Day 2016, the landmark Paris Agreement was signed by the United States, China, and some 120 other countries. This signing satisfied a key requirement for the entry into force of the historic draft climate protection treaty adopted by consensus of the 195 nations present at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be celebrated on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. Nelson was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom award in recognition of his work. While this April 22 Earth Day was focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations.Numerous communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on the environmental issues that the world faces. In 2017, the March for Science occurred on Earth Day (April 22, 2017) and was followed by the People's Climate Mobilization (April 29, 2017).