April 22nd marks the "official" birth of the modern environmentalist movement, after U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson declared in 1969 that April 22, 1970 would be a day for grassroots demonstrations on the environment all across the nation. This from Wikipedia:

Each year, the April 22 Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970. Among other things, 1970 in the United States brought with it the Kent State shootings, the advent of fiber optics, "Bridge over Troubled Water," Apollo 13, the Beatles' last album, the death of Jimi Hendrix, and the meltdown of fuel rods in the Savannah River nuclear plant near Aiken, South Carolina -- an incident not acknowledged for 18 years. At the time, Americans were slurping leaded gas through massive V8 sedans. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. Environment was a word that appeared more often in spelling bees than on the evening news. But Earth Day 1970 turned that all around.

Celebrations have already started this past weekend. In Dallas there was a groovy show of hybrid and battery powered cars. An organic lifestyle store in Malaysia had a carnival called "Heal the Earth, Vote Organic" . In Bangalore, IT companies like Cisco, Applied Materials and Intel have partnered with Greenpeace in the organizing of week long eco-conscious activities and Earth Day Brigades.

So peeps, please pray tell, how are you celebrating your environmentalist groove? Our light fixtures are so old they don't take in the new energy efficient light bulbs, so we will be working on that all week long.

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