Earth Day April 22, 2017

Happy earth day!

Each year, Earth Day—April 22—marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.  On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.

 Earth Day 1970 achieved a rare political alignment, enlisting support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city slickers and farmers, tycoons and labor leaders. By the end of that year, the first Earth Day had led to the creation of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts.

Today, the fight for a clean environment continues with increasing urgency, as the ravages of climate change become more manifest every day.  To learn about different ways you can take action in support of Earth Day, visit http://www.earthday.org/take-action/

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You can also make decisions every day to live in a more sustainable manner!
 http://theartofsimple.net/tips-to-go-green-at-home/

​Learn more about protecting our waterway - keep our watershed and our drinking water safe from pollution:
https://www.epa.gov/environmental-topics/water-topics#our-waters

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change:
unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php

Climate 101 - The Climate Reality Project:  www.climaterealityproject.org/climate-101
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​Tree Planting Challenge "Taking Root": 
http://www.takingroot.info/tree-planting-challenge/

Visit our ​Conservation Blog for more ways to help out planet.