The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson On Earth Day 1970 twenty million Americans displayed their commitment to a clean environment. It was called the largest demonstration in human history, and it permanently changed the nation’s political agenda. By Earth Day 2000 participation had exploded to 500 million people in 167 countries. Winner, Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize, University of Wisconsin Press |
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... thousand colleges and ten thousand grade and high schools participated . " In Clear Lake , Wisconsin , Gaylord Nelson's hometown , junior and senior high school students observed Earth Day at a school assembly with speeches , songs ...
... thousand miles along a glacial divide , with moraines marking the edge of activity by glaciers ten thousand years ago . Raymond Zillmer , a Milwaukee lawyer , avid walker , and mountaineer , had the idea in the 1950s for a na- tional ...
... thousand dollars , and Nelson donated all of the honoraria he received for his environ- mental speeches , totaling eighteen thousand dollars by Earth Day . The total budget was less than two hundred thousand dollars , much of it from ...
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