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4月22日地球日会观察到更多的than a billion people in nearly 200 countries, making it the world’s largest civic observance. The first Earth Day was held in 1970, a year I remember well. I had recently moved to a smaller high school where the student body was less diverse and more conservative. When I found out that my new school had no plans to mark the important occasion, I gathered a few like-minded friends and, with a sense of righteous indignation, we marched out to the parking lot to pick up trash! Not the most impactful way to celebrate the first ever Earth Day, but the effort apparently helped cement my reputation as a “rebel egg head,” as I learned years later when I was introduced as such to more than one former classmate’s spouse at our 20^日高中同学聚会。

Many years later I can’t recall much about that day or even, now I think of it, the history behind Earth Day. But having access to Gale’s rich database content, I recently set out to educate myself. Here’s what I found:

• 地球日的概念始于美国参议员盖洛德尼尔森，一个威斯康星州的民主党，谁在1969年提出了在全国大学校园的一系列环保宣讲会的。希望通过举办宣讲会在那里，法学院学生丹尼斯·海斯飞往华盛顿特区，以满足在哈佛的课程要求，采访尼尔森，谁劝海耶斯放弃哈佛出来，并组织全国范围的一系列事件。188金宝搏北京赛车（科学在上下文）

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