Celebrate Earth Day and demonstrate support for environmental protection. Do your part to protect our earth’s integrity for all living things. Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, founded National Earth Day in 1970 after an immense oil spill in Santa Barbara, California in 1969. According to the Earth Day website, Nelson wanted to energize the “emerging public consciousness” about air and water pollution, which would bring environmental protection onto the national political agenda. The first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, incited 20 million Americans, who “took to the streets, … [Read more...]