World Earth Day is celebrated yearly on the 22nd of April, but actually started on the same date in 1970. Since then, it has become a tradition celebrated all over the world. Various activities are held to commemorate love for the environment and preservation of mother nature. Usually, it’s a clean up drive within the [...]

On April 22, 1970, the first Earth Day kicked off our modern environmental movement. Founded by Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisconsin), the event was a response to political inertia around environmental issues. Twenty million people from 141 countries participated. Earth Day was organized as a teach-in. Teach-ins were grassroots educational efforts of the day that had [...]