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| Google homepage Logo in celebration of Earth Day 2011. |
Today marks the celebration of Earth Day now in its 41st year. The first Earth Day was organized April 22, 1970 in the US led by Gaylord Nelson, a United States Senator from Wisconsin. This was attended by 20 million people. From then on each year, Earth Day is being celebrated by more than 500 million people and several national governments in 175 countries.
The movement is taking another bold campaign: A Billion Acts of Green which aims to register one billion actions in service of the environment prior to the global Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 2012. An online registration tool is provided to register Earth Day events and community climate meetings, as well as tree plantings, large-scale light bulb changes and workplace renewable energy retrofits. Simple individual gestures like riding a bike instead of driving and washing laundry in cold water are also counted.
Looking back, below is a Pogo cartoon poster was created by American comics artist Walter Kelly coinciding the the very first Earth Day in 1970.
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| Pogo poster for the first Earth Day by Walter Kelly. |
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