And in 1951, Wise tackled what was to become a sci-fi classic, "The Day the Earth Stood Still" with Michael Rennie.
Everywhere there are little reminders of the day the earth shook so violently: the trophy cabinet full of toppled sports awards, the covered walkways choked with smashed stone pillars.
Louis native scored a hosting gig on NBC's popular-again Saturday Night Live, a part opposite Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connolly in The Day the Earth Stood Still and a role in Gap 's holiday advertising campaign.
Some of us can remember the public health and environmental catastrophes that propelled Earth Day, the Earth Day movement in the first place, the Cuyahoga River literally catching on fire from all the oil and dumped trash that was in it.
"That's why we're coming together on the Mall and standing in solidarity with millions of people at thousands of Earth Day events around the world, " Rogers said in a statement on the Earth Day web site.
So what is the probability that the meteor hits and the asteroid passes Earth on the same day when someone could record it on video?
"I am pleased to have the opportunity to share the environmental messages from AVATAR through the efforts during the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day and with Earth Day Network, " said James Cameron.
In 1969, the year before the first Earth Day, two environmental disasters grabbed the country's attention: a massive oil spill coated the coast of Santa Barbara, California, and the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio, grew so polluted that it actually caught fire.
America rose to meet the call to action in the months and years that followed the first Earth Day.
Over the 40 years since the first Earth Day, there have been many laws, and through the vision of a few companies and leaders, progress has been made in the profitability of sustainability.
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The picture became inextricably linked to the environmental movement when it was adopted for the first Earth Day in 1970.
Organizations like Virgin Unite, the Virgin Group's non-profit foundation , and the Carbon War Room have joined with groups like the Earth Day Network to tackle tough social and environmental problems and to raise awareness in the next generation.
Men are closely related to animals, especially mammals, in the Torah: Both are created on the sixth day, and both are created from the earth (unlike other living creatures like birds and fish which are created without reference to preexisting material).
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We can see things -- we pass over the same portion of the Earth every day, so it's a regular observation that we can make over a long period of time, as well.
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The residents were represented in court for the two-day hearing by campaign group Friends of the Earth.
From director Michael Bay and executive producer Steven Spielberg, in association with Hasbro, Transformers: Dark of the Moon explodes with high-octane action when a mysterious event from Earth's past erupts into the present day threatening to bring a war to Earth so big that the TRANSFORMERS alone will not be able to save us.
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And 40 years ago, when Gaylord conceived and celebrated the first Earth Day, the world looked pretty different.
The meteor strike happened on the same day that near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 will make a close flyby of Earth.
Maybe this continuing lack of care for the planet and its people will one day become the reason we leave Earth for once and for all.
The theme of the 65th anniversary issue is "Literature and the Environment, " which could seem simply trendy had the editor not been active in the very origins of Earth Day.
So the chance that these two events would happen on a day sometime in the earth's history is actually larger than we first thought -- it ought to have happened about 12, 000 times already.
Here he argued the the moon showed radical changes in temperature between day and night while the earth showed much less change.
The International Basic Sciences Programme (IBSP) of UNESCO and the International Mathematical Union (IMU) are leading this Mathematics of Planet Earth Day and the international exhibition which is an important component of the year of scientific and outreach activities, Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013 (MPE2013), under the patronage of UNESCO.
Two years later, at the first Earth Day, its founder predicted that the greatest challenge to the environment would be population growth.
In honor of the 37th annual Earth Day this Sunday, we are highlighting our picks for the 11 greenest billionaires.
Beyond the UNESCO Mathematics of Planet Earth Day on 5 March 2013, the MPE Exhibition will be displayed until 8 March 2013 at UNESCO Miollis Premises.
For over 20 years, the company has sponsored City Year, a type of urban Peace Corps, and for the past fourteen years they have sponsored Earth Day events all over the world.
As it says over there in the sidebar my day job involves dealing with one of the rare earth metals and one of my suppliers is in Russia.
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