Uppity Wisconsin

Screw Earth Day? Surely you jest

Tue, 04/21/2009 - 1:59pm | xoff

Grist, the provocative online environmental magazine with an attitude, asks whether Earth Day, bring celebrated on Wednesday for the 40th year, still has any purpose or relevance.

Where I come from, them's fightin' words.

As the biographer of Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day's founder, my response is probably predictable. Others offer their takes, too.

Happy Earth Day.

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This has been bugging me all

Submitted by QwertyToo (not verified) on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 7:41pm.

This has been bugging me all day. I keep seeing articles claiming this is the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, but I also keep seeing articles that say the first Earth Day was in 1970. Now I have tried many times but my brain will not let 2009 minus 1970 equal 40. Is there something I'm missing here?

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A little late

Submitted by xoff on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 8:54pm.

Sorry to respond so tardily. This is the 40th year it has been celebrated. Next year will be the 40th anniversary of the first one. Does that help?

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Earthday hypotcrits

Submitted by Spurwing Plover (not verified) on Wed, 04/22/2009 - 2:07pm.

This is the anniual event in which hundreds of granola munchers and tree huggers gather in certian places in america and leave behind tons of trash while celebrations their goofy holiday of hippy wackos

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Do you mean hippo-critters?

Submitted by xoff on Fri, 05/08/2009 - 9:06pm.

Like hippopotami?

Actually, the Earth Day Network said one billion people in the world did something on Earth Day this year. And what millions of them did was pick up litter.

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