Earth Day, celebrated April 22, is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in in 1970 and is celebrated in many countries every year. This date is Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere.
Earth Day Network offers activities and issues to celebrate Earth Day.
Grist offers What’s the matter with Earth Day?
or Our fourth annual Earth Day list of the year’s goodies, oddities, and inanities
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Lewis Black deconstructed Earth Day children’s programming on last night’s The Daily Show, including a great jab at actor / MTV Cribs balla’ Wilmer Valderrama.
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WP offered extensive video of Steven Chu speaking on all aspects of energy. Do you think he got it right about saving 80% of a building's energy use?
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In case you're headed to DC tomorrow, you can mosey over to -- EPA to Hold Earth Day Festival and Open House at Headquarters
.ENN always provides a wide array of energy and environmental issues, such as --
.What’s the right energy price benchmark? and you gotta love environmentally responsible chocolate --
Walking The Walk On Sustainability
Speaking of Mars, the candy company of the same name claims it is the "first global chocolate company to commit to fundamentally changing the way sustainable cocoa farming practices are advanced by aiming to certify" that its entire cocoa supply is produced in a sustainable manner by 2020.
It wants to achieve this through collaboration with the Rainforest Alliance, an international non-profit that works on land-use practices, business practices, and consumer behavior. They unveiled new goals in their continuing campaign to help cocoa farmers get on the path toward sustainability. They agreed to redouble efforts to help thousands of farmers meet holistic social and environmental standards so that their farms could earn Rainforest Alliance certification.
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Kaboose offers kids stuff!
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