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DESCRIPTION:EARTH DAY: 50th ANNIVERSARY 1970-2020\n\nTHEME 2020: Climate 
 Action\n\nWhen: Wednesday, April 22, 2020\n\nWhere: throughout the San 
 Francisco Bay Area, State of California, and worldwide\n\nFind Earth Day 
 actions in your area: 
 https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2020/\n(Actions/events could change due 
 to health mandates)\n\nPLEASE NOTE: Due to the global outbreak of COVID-19, 
 Earth Day events could change or be cancelled. Personal and community 
 safety is of the upmost importance.  For CDC health information, go to: 
 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html\n_______________________________________________________\n\nEARTH 
 DAY 2020\n\nEarth Day on April 22, 2020 will mark 50 years of Earth Day. 
 \n\nEarth Day was a unified response to an environment in crisis — oil 
 spills, smog, rivers so polluted they literally caught fire.\n\nOn April 
 22, 1970, 20 million Americans — 10% of the U.S. population at the time 
 — took to the streets, college campuses and hundreds of cities to protest 
 environmental ignorance and demand a new way forward for our planet. This 
 first Earth Day in 1970 is credited with launching the modern environmental 
 movement, and is now recognized as the planet’s largest civic event.  
 \n\nThe first Earth Day started a wave of action, including the passage of 
 landmark environmental laws in the United States. The Clean Air, Clean 
 Water and Endangered Species Acts were created in response to the first 
 Earth Day in 1970, as well as the creation of the Environmental Protection 
 Agency (EPA). Many countries soon adopted similar laws.\n\nEarth Day 
 continues to hold major international significance: In 2016, the United 
 Nations chose Earth Day as the day when the historic Paris Agreement on 
 climate change was signed into force.\n\nThe theme for Earth Day 2020 is 
 climate action. The enormous challenge — but also the vast opportunities 
 — of action on climate change have distinguished the issue as the most 
 pressing topic for the 50th anniversary.\n\nClimate change represents the 
 biggest challenge to the future of humanity and the life-support systems 
 that make our world 
 habitable.\n_________________________________________________________\n\nMISSION: 
 Earth Day Network\n\nOur mission? To build the world’s largest 
 environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and 
 planet.\n\nEarth Day Network’s mission is to diversify, educate and 
 activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first 
 Earth Day in 1970, Earth Day Network is the world’s largest recruiter to 
 the environmental movement, working with more than 75,000 partners in over 
 190 countries to drive positive action for our planet. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/11/18831441.php
SUMMARY:Earth Day 2020: 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Activism 1970-2020 (Global)
LOCATION:Worldwide climate strikes, actions, and environmental events
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2020/03/11/18831441.php
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