Celebrating Earth Day

In 1970, a grassroots movement was gaining momentum across the country, as groups of students and workers united in an attempt to alert the government to the idea that voters were concerned about ecological matters. The result was Earth Day, first celebrated in America on the 22nd April 1970 and founded by the US Senator Gaylord Nelson to “shake up the political establishment and force this issue on to the national agenda.”

Senator Nelson’s initial concept of a national “teach-in” in universities, colleges and schools across the country was conceived after Continue reading Earth Day: The Future In Our Hands, 22nd April 2010