Earth Day
The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, activated 20 million Americans from all walks of life and is widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. The passage of the landmark Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act and many other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed. Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day Network (EDN) works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement. More than 1 billion people now participate in Earth Day activities each year, making it the largest civic observance in the world.
This year, TreeHugger is partnering with Earth Day Network to share news about Earth Day. We'll be attending the Earth Day festivities in Washington DC and look forward to bringing you interviews, photos and updates about the ways Earth Day is helping spread awareness about sustainability.
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Jurlique Is a Science of Natural Beauty
We are all familiar with the words "organic" ingredients and "all natural" ingredients when referring to beauty products, but it's very rare to see "biodynamic" in the mix. But that's exactly what Australian
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Best of Green: Best in Show -- Vote for Your Favorites
TreeHugger's inaugural Best of Green awards have been an amazing, inspiring way to celebrate Earth Month, and, now that we've celebrated Earth Day with all the winners, it's time to pick the "Best in Show" for the Best of Green.
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Grist Screws Earth Day, Jonathon Porritt Blogs UK Budget, MNN Goes to the Carnival, and More
Grist: We screwed Earth Day—get over it by Grist "Another Earth Day has come and gone... What now? Well, if you've been hanging around Grist lately, you would know that that's the question we've been asking all along. What now? What happens the
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Nau Offers 20% Discount for TreeHugger Readers
What can we say, we love Nau. And as our longtime readers know, we've been following the company through their launch, closing, and re-launch. Based in Portland, OR, Nau is a technical and lifestyle outdoor apparel company. They are dedicated to
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Matthew Modine on Why BMXing Can Be Subversive & Bicycle For a Day's Trojan Horse
Among the other green advocates at yesterday's Earth Day festivities in Times Square, Matthew Modine made an appearance. You may be more familiar with his films, but he's also the founder of Bicycle For a Day and an
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Israelis Go For Falafel Power at Earth Day Celebrations to "Bio" Fuel Concert
This year Israel was caught with its pants down and instead of participating in Earth Hour, which Tel Aviv did so terrifically last year, the country was busy watching
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Funny Pages Go Green For Second Annual Earth Day Event
Does Mother Earth have a sense of humor? Thirty-seven of King Features' cartoonists are tickling the planet's funny bone by dedicating their strips to the environment on Earth Day.
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Triumph Elm Tree Arrives in Chicago's Downtown for Arbor Day
The Triumph Elm is being set up on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in honor of Arbor Day this Friday (and you thought the fun ended with Earth Day!). The tree is part of a project by the Morton Arboretum to enlighten
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Will We Be Celebrating the Passage of US Climate Legislation Next Earth Day?
That's the optimistic opinion put forth by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi--she issued that statement as Congress set about the "mother of all climate weeks" to debate revolutionary climate and energy legislation that could
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Earth Day 2009 NYC: Iconic Times Square New Years Eve Ball Now Lit by LEDs
Though frankly I try to stay as far away from Times Square as I can on New Years Eve, and have always found the tradition of watching the ball drop to be singularly anti-climactic, this Earth Day I got to climb to the top of One Times Square to view
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A Kid-Friendly Earth Day in South Carolina
Children that grow up green are more likely to pass that knowledge on to their children and Earth Day is the perfect opportunity to instill some great green info. This Earth Day was no exception, with kid-friendly activities in South
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Victory for Animals: A Roaring Earth Day Tribute
It's been another rough year for the animal kingdom—all that rarefied air at the top of the food chain must be leaving us brain-addled—but a few small victories for our furred, feathered, finned, hooved, and scaled cohorts
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"Anything's Possible": A Video Interview with Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips
Wayne Coyne, the gonzo front-man of the Flaming Lips, is a storehouse of renewable energy, a super musical dynamo who sometimes seems more suited for Mars than Earth. But when Coyne and company
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Rush Limbaugh Celebrates Earth Day — By Saluting Coal and Overconsumption
Rush Limbaugh—a man about as far from an environmentalist hero as could possibly be imagined—nonetheless set out to celebrate Earth Day on his radio show today. Of course, he did so by extolling the virtues of coal, plastic
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Green Eyes On: Buying for Earth Day
Though I've never been a proponent of rushing out to buy all the latest green gadgets just in the name of "going green" it is comforting to read that sales of organic foods and other green goods are not declining despite the economy, and that
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NASA's Earth Gazing Video: Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot... Up Close
Earth Gazing From the International Space Station for Earth Day For Earth Day, NASA is beaming back to Earth high-resolution images taken from the International Space Station (ISS). What better way to remind ourselves that our planet isn't infinite than
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Matthew Modine, DJ Spooky and Boris Kodjoe on Earth Day
Artist and turntablist Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky) is working on Sinfonia Antarctica, a musical/film performance based on field recordings he made of Antarctica's rapidly changing environment. "McMurdo [station] is like McDonalds -- I wanted to get
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11 Environmentalist Heroes: an Earth Day Tribute
Many of us having been celebrating Earth Day for as long as we remember--but it hasn't always been this way. As evidenced by this photo from a march on the first Earth Day in 1970, it's taken the dedication, cunning, and the unflinching
