Today is Earth Day and Jean Wilcox Hibben remember the first Earth Day! She was a student and...well, listen to the podcast and she'll tell the story.
What will you do today to help the earth? You might choose to live more like our ancestors who "used it up, wore it out" to lessen your impact. Whatever you decide to do, we hope you enjoy Podcast 51. To listen to the entire podcast subscribe at Podbean.
Resources
Bottled Water:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottled_water
Earth Day History and Memories: https://www.sheddaquarium.org/blog/2009/April/Memories-of-Earth-Day-1970/ http://www.inournaturemag.com/northwesterns-historical-role-in-the-creation-of-earth-day/ http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/winter2009/studentlife/projectsurvival.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/20/the-history-of-earth-day_n_182928.html http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_earthday_1.html https://www.livescience.com/50556-earth-day-facts-history.html
https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/earth-day https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/102/hjres421 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Peace_Bell http://www.un.org/en/events/peaceday/2012/peacebell.shtml https://www.epa.gov/history/epa-history-earth-day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day https://www.earthday.org/about/the-history-of-earth-day/
Early conservationists and environmentalists: https://www.history.com/news/early-environmentalists https://www.nps.gov/thro/learn/historyculture/theodore-roosevelt-and-conservation.htm
https://wilderness.org/12-historic-american-environmentalists-who-made-our-wilderness-all-star-draft http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/conservation/history.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon
“This Land is Your Land” verse: by Jean Wilcox, Wilmette, Illinois, ca. 1967 Reprinted in Pete Seeger, Where Have all the Flowers Gone, New York: Sing Out! Publication, 1993, 2009, p. 144.
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