It’s Earth Day you know. That means you should step away from the computer, put down the cellphone,go outside and see what’s going on in the big blue room. Read what Gaylord Nelson has to say about the beginnings of Earth Day and then get out of the chair and out of doors. It will do you good.
WHY APRIL 22?
The huge amount of young activism in the United States in the 1960s caused leaders to choose April 22 for Earth Day. The story is that April 22 was chosen because college students would be likely to be available. It falls between spring break and final exams.
Each year, however, somebody brings up the fact that April 22 was Lenin’s birthday. Senator Nelson’s response is pretty good, so we’ll leave it to him:
“On any given day, a lot of both good and bad people were born,” he said. “A person many consider the world’s first environmentalist, Saint Francis of Assisi, was born on April 22. So was Queen Isabella. More importantly, so was my Aunt Tillie.”
More Earth Day Facts from MNN and Earth Day Facts from the History Channel.
(This post written in advance so I don’t have to be inside today)