Earth Day<\/p>\n
celebrating its 50th anniversary this year<\/p>\n
is an annual event\u00a0celebrated<\/a>\u00a0around the world on April 22 to demonstrate support for\u00a0environmental protection<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n First celebrated in 1970, it now includes events coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network\u00a0in more than 193 countries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 1969 at a\u00a0UNESCO<\/a>\u00a0Conference in San Francisco,\u00a0peace activist<\/a>\u00a0John McConnell<\/a>\u00a0proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be celebrated on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This day of nature’s equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General\u00a0U Thant<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0United Nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A month later a United States Senator\u00a0Gaylord Nelson<\/a>\u00a0proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental\u00a0teach-in<\/a>\u00a0on April 22, 1970.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He hired a young activist,\u00a0Denis Hayes<\/a>, to be the National Coordinator. Nelson and Hayes renamed the event \u201cEarth Day.\u201d Nelson was later awarded the\u00a0Presidential Medal of Freedom<\/a>\u00a0award in recognition of his work.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The first Earth Day was focused on the United States.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In 1990, Denis Hayes, the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international and organized events in 141 nations.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On Earth Day 2016, the landmark\u00a0Paris Agreement<\/a>\u00a0was signed by the United States, China, and some 120 other countries.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This signing satisfied a key requirement for the\u00a0entry into force<\/a>\u00a0of the historic draft\u00a0climate protection treaty<\/a>\u00a0adopted by consensus of the 195 nations present at the\u00a02015 United Nations Climate Change Conference<\/a>\u00a0in Paris.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Numerous communities celebrate\u00a0Earth Day Week, an entire week of activities focused on the environmental issues that the world faces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earth Day celebrating its 50th anniversary this year is an annual event\u00a0celebrated\u00a0around the world on April 22 to demonstrate support for\u00a0environmental protection. First celebrated in 1970, it now includes events coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network\u00a0in more than 193 countries. In 1969 at a\u00a0UNESCO\u00a0Conference in San Francisco,\u00a0peace activist\u00a0John McConnell\u00a0proposed a day to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,94],"tags":[159],"class_list":["post-1594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment","category-events","tag-earth-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1594\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casadelmiele.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}