{"id":6401,"date":"2022-04-22T17:25:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/?p=6401"},"modified":"2022-04-22T17:25:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:25:57","slug":"earth-day-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/2022\/04\/22\/earth-day-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>History of Earth Day<\/h1>\n<p>The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, a nationwide teach-in on the environment, was inspired by anti-war teach-ins on college campuses that Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, read about in an article on the plane ride home after witnessing the devastation from an oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara, California, in 1969.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6402\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6402\" style=\"width: 1716px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6402\" src=\"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/earthday1970.png\" alt=\"photograph of protestors with sign near overflowing trash\" width=\"1716\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/earthday1970.png 1716w, https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/earthday1970-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/earthday1970-768x290.png 768w, https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/earthday1970-1024x387.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1716px) 100vw, 1716px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protestors in New York City at the first Earth Day in 1970, by photographer Bernard Gotfryd<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur goal is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all human beings and all other living creatures &#8211; an environment without ugliness, without ghettos, without poverty, without discrimination, without hunger and without war. Our goal is a decent environment in its broadest and deepest sense. Winning the environmental war is a whole lot tougher battle, challenge, by far, than any other challenge ever to confront mankind.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; Earth Day Founder, U.S. Senator, and Wisconsin Governor, Gaylord Nelson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Thulin, L. (April 22, 2019). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/how-oil-spill-50-years-ago-inspired-first-earth-day-180972007\/\">How an oil spill inspired the first Earth Day<\/a>. <i>Smithsonian Magazine<\/i>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/sYsZCtugbnE\">Gaylord Nelson: A vision for the Earth.<\/a> 2020. PBS Wisconsin Education.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Cwnkw5pnG38\">When the Earth Moves<\/a> 2020. Outrider Foundation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/csun\/detail.action?docID=3445057\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6403\" src=\"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2022\/04\/nelson.jpg\" alt=\"book cover of Beyond Earth Day with photograph of Earth from space and photograph of Gaylord Nelson\" width=\"66\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nelson, G. (2002). <a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/csun\/detail.action?docID=3445057\"><i>Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the promise<\/i><\/a>. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. Floor 3, <span dir=\"auto\">GE195 .N45 2002<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Rome, A. (2013).\u00a0<i>The genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 teach-in unexpectedly made the first green generation<\/i>. New York: Hill and Wang. Floor 3, GE195 .R65 2013<\/li>\n<li>Christofferson, B. (2004).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/csun\/detail.action?docID=3444898\"><i>The man from Clear Lake: Earth Day founder Senator Gaylord Nelson<\/i><\/a>. University of Wisconsin Press.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/SCA\/Peek-in-the-Stacks\/Environment\">Environmental Resources in CSUN&#8217;s Special Collections &amp; Archives\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Carson, R. (1962). <i>Silent spring<\/i>. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Floor 4, <span dir=\"auto\">QH545.P4 C38 1962<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The 1970s is known as the \u201cEnvironmental Decade.\u201d The Environmental Protection Agency was created and the following acts were passed during this period:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>National Environmental Policy Act &#8211; 42 U.S.C. \u00a74331 et seq. (1970)<\/li>\n<li>Clean Air Act &#8211; 42 U.S.C. \u00a77401 et seq. (1970)<\/li>\n<li>Clean Water Act &#8211; 33 U.S.C. \u00a71251 et seq. (1972)<\/li>\n<li>Endangered Species Act &#8211; 16 U.S.C. \u00a71531 et seq. (1973)<\/li>\n<li>Safe Drinking Water Act &#8211; 42 U.S.C. \u00a7300f et seq. (1974)<\/li>\n<li>Hazardous Materials Transportation Act &#8211; 49 U.S.C. \u00a75101 et seq. (1975)<\/li>\n<li>Resource Conservation and Recovery Act &#8211; 42 U.S.C. \u00a76901 et seq. (1976)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>Earth Day Now<\/h1>\n<p>The theme for this year is Invest in Our Planet. Here are 10 ways that you can get involved as an individual. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthday.org\/earth-day-tips\/\">More tips here!<\/a>)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use the Internet not trees<\/li>\n<li>Turn off lights when not in use<\/li>\n<li>Switch to reusable bags<\/li>\n<li>Switch to online billing<\/li>\n<li>Encourage the use of reusable utensils, dishes and trays<\/li>\n<li>Buy local food<\/li>\n<li>Eat less meat<\/li>\n<li>Use a reusable water bottle<\/li>\n<li>Practice sustainable fashion<\/li>\n<li>Skip plastic, buy glass or paper products<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Events are happening <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csun.edu\/as\/earth-month\">here at CSUN<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/o\/la-sanitation-amp-environment-10860475867\">around Los Angeles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Learn More<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Merenlender, A., Buhler, B., Sarris, G., &amp; Kaufmann, O. (2021).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www-jstor-org.libproxy.csun.edu\/stable\/j.ctv1wr9f0v\"><i>Climate stewardship: Taking collective action to protect California<\/i><\/a>. University of California Press.<\/li>\n<li>Gordon, D. (2021).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/oxford-universitypressscholarship-com.libproxy.csun.edu\/view\/10.1093\/oso\/9780190069476.001.0001\/oso-9780190069476\"><i>No standard oil: Managing abundant petroleum in a warming world<\/i><\/a>. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Johnson, L. (2021).\u00a0<i>Paradise: One town\u2019s struggle to survive an American wildfire<\/i>. New York: Crown. Floor 4, <span dir=\"auto\">SD421.32.C2 J64 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Jahren, H. (2020).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ebookcentral.proquest.com\/lib\/csun\/detail.action?docID=6072415\"><i>The story of more: How we got to climate change and where to go from here<\/i><\/a>. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/docuseek2.com.libproxy.csun.edu\/v\/p\/B2p\/In\">Docuseek Earth Day 2022<\/a> &#8211; a curated selection of 21 films for Earth Day and themes focusing on climate change and the environment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/video-alexanderstreet-com.libproxy.csun.edu\/p\/XQ50DEj28\">Environmental Studies in Video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of Earth Day The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, a nationwide teach-in on the environment, was inspired by anti-war teach-ins on college&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/2022\/04\/22\/earth-day-2022\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earth Day 2022<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":6404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6407,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6401\/revisions\/6407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.csun.edu\/blogs\/cited\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}