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The Earth Day

Earth Day  originally celebrated at Spring Equinox around March 20, is an annual day on which events are held worldwide to increase awareness andappreciation of the Earth's natural environment Now Earth Day is coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year In 2009, the United Nations designatedApril 22 International Mother Earth Day Earth Day is planned for April 22 in all years at least through 2015.

The name and concept of Earth Day was pioneered by John McConnell in 1969 ata UNESCO Conference in San Francisco. He proposed March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a Proclamation signed by SecretaryGeneral U Thant at the United Nations A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator  Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. While this April 22Earth Day was focused on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141nations. Numerous communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues.
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The Earth Day name
According to Nelson,the moniker "Earth Day" was "an obvious and logical name" suggested by "a number of people" in the fall of 1969, including, he writes, both "a friend of mine who had been in the field of publicrelations" and "a New York advertising executive," Julian Koenig Koenig, who had been on Nelson's organizing committee in 1969, has said that the idea came to him by the coincidence of his birthday with theday selected, April 22; "Earth Day" rhyming with "birthday," the connection seemed natural.Other names circulated during preparations—Nelson himself continued to call it the National Environment...