PRELUDE: Earth Day 1970-2020
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The 1970 event is viewed as a Prelude to Earth Day, one of the very earliest national environmental protests in February 1970 before Earth Day in April. Marie Nahikian hosts this podcast and was the organizer/conference coordinator. The conference participants were college newspaper editors and was, it turns out a significant organizing strategy as college newspaper across the nation wrote about the environmental crisis and encouraged the participation in Earth Day. Senator Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day and Dennis Hayes, Director of Earth Day in 1970 both attended the What's the Difference if We Don't Wake Up conference in Washington, DC in 1970. Additional information, notes and conference publications can be found at www.theusablepast.com.
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