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Earth Day began on April 22, 1970, as a response to environmental deterioration. Inspired by the 1969 Santa Barbara offshore oil spill and other catastrophes, U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.) teamed with Rep. Pete McCloskey (R-Calif.) and activist Denis Hayes to organize a series of college teach-ins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The inaugural event went far beyond campuses, drawing 20 million Americans \u2013 10% of the population \u2013 to demonstrations and teach-ins at schools, parks and auditoriums. \u201cPogo\u201d cartoonist Walt Kelly created a promotional poster. New York City Mayor John Lindsay closed Fifth Avenue to cars and gave an impassioned speech. President and Mrs. Nixon planted a tree on the White House grounds. April 22 became affixed on calendars as Earth Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Earth Day\u2019s enduring legacies is providing a common frame of reference for a disparate range of animal conservation groups, anti-pollution activists and others. \u201cI think the most important thing that Earth Day did was to take all of those different threads and weave them together into this fabric of modern environmentalism, to help them understand that they were operating from similar sets of values,\u201d says Hayes, who remains active in environmental causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEarth Day has grown into a secular holiday recognized by billions of people and which has no goal beyond building a better world,\u201d Rolling Stone writer Jeff Goodell said in a 2020 profile of Hayes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year on April 22, under the theme of \u201cInvest in Our Planet,\u201d millions of private citizens, business leaders, government officials, academics and students around the world will recognize \u201cour collective responsibility and to help accelerate the transition to an equitable, prosperous green economy for all,\u201d according to EARTHDAY.org, a nonprofit that arose from the initial event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EARTHDAY.org will team with more than 150,000 partners in more than 190 countries to promote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n