Grist
JUNE 12, 2024
It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. A poster from the first Earth Day, 1970.
Grist
FEBRUARY 9, 2022
A view of the Earth beyond the lunar horizon, taken from the Apollo 8 spacecraft while in orbit around the Moon, by crewmember Bill Anders, on December 24, 1968. Reflecting on his prediction, Hoyle observed that people suddenly seemed to care about protecting the Earth’s natural environment after the Apollo 8 mission.
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Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
The Paris Climate Agreement opened for signature on Earth Day (22nd of April 2016), at the UN headquarters in New York. The Paris Agreement outlined the action necessary to limit global temperature rise this century below 35.6°F F (2°C) (which is warmer than pre-industrial levels), and to cap further temperature increases to 34.7°F
Green Market Oracle
APRIL 22, 2020
On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day we are called to to rise above our concerns and strive for a better world. We are burning less coal and this has reduced acid rain and by eliminating CFCs we are helping the ozone hole to recover. Related An Earth Day Like No Other Subscribe in a reader
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