Environmental Button
date: label: Date made
content: 1978
name: label: maker
content: Edward Horn Co.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Several types of renewable energy sources are available as alternatives to non-renewable, carbon-based fuels. This button advocates the use of solar energy to generate electricity. It was distributed in 1978 by Solar Action, the Washington, D.C.-based organization that helped to organize Sun Day (3 May 1978.) For many people, the 1970s energy crisis was a call to action to change how electricity was generated and used. Making the choice to “go solar”—and encouraging others to do the same—reflected growing optimism about the potential of clean, accessible solar energy.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
label: Place Made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
topic: label: Subject
content: Environmental Movement
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content: Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: Energy & Power
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content: Natural Resources
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content: Environmental Buttons
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content: Artifact Walls exhibit
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2003.0014.0400
label: accession number
content: 2003.0014
label: catalog number
content: 2003.0014.0400
objectType: label: Object Name
content: button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .33 cm x 4 cm; x 1/8 in x 1 9/16 in