Image of the Day

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A student demonstrates at Pace College, NY, on the first Earth Day – April 22, 1970).

While we're at it, here's a trailer for the documentary Earth Days, about the founding of the modern environmental movement:


Visit PBS.org to watch the whole thing.

Happy Earth Day, Earth

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Glad you're here. Sure hope you're around a while longer.

Earthrise, a.k.a. NASA image AS8-14-2383,
taken by astronaut William Anders
during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.

Image of the Day

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Organizing the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970: "From a small Washington, D.C. office, Environment Teach-In, Inc. organized the first Earth Day as a coordinated teach-in involving several schools across the U.S. Denis Hayes [above, seated, with Judy Moody] ran the small activist group co-founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson. The teach-in was designed to educate Americans about growing problems with environmental pollution and overpopulation."

See more images of the first Earth Day at PBS and National Geographic, and watch The Seeds of a Revolution: Earth Days online at American Experience.

Pacific Standard is celebrating Earth Day tomorrow by not driving.