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| From the original Earth Week campaign in 1970. |
Do you know the history of Earth Day?
The first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970. Roughly 20 million people attended various Earth Day celebrations around the United States. The largest Earth Day celebrations occurred in New York City and Philadelphia.
Earth Day is often credited with starting the modern environmental movement. Many groundbreaking environmentally-conscious laws followed the first Earth Day, including the Clean Air Act that was signed by president Richard Nixon on December 31, 1970.
Today, the Earth Day Network works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to promote eco-awareness.
Learn more about the modern Earth Day movement in next week's blog!
The facts in this blog are available on the Earth Day website www.earthday.org .
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