Australia's biggest city, Sydney, has switched off its lights for an hour as the Earth Day climate change protest gets under way across the globe.
"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.
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.
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.
And 40 years ago, when Gaylord conceived and celebrated the first Earth Day, the world looked pretty different.
Two years later, at the first Earth Day, its founder predicted that the greatest challenge to the environment would be population growth.
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.
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- There were several speeches at the first Earth Day -- back in 1970, before the disco era -- on the National Mall.
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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Pledges large and small have been flooding into the official Earth Day web site since its launch in November 2010 and a rally at the National Mall in Washington D.
The annual Earth Day celebration attracts 6, 000 people from as far as 100 miles away.
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On April 22, 1970, millions of Americans came together to celebrate the first Earth Day.
America rose to meet the call to action in the months and years that followed the first Earth Day.
About 20 million Americans participated in the first Earth Day, organizers said, though that number is most likely inflated.
The picture became inextricably linked to the environmental movement when it was adopted for the first Earth Day in 1970.
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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Even if I wasn't as cool and thoughtful as I hoped to appear, the first Earth Day's message was good then, and it's better today: We have to take care of the Earth.
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?
In honor of the 37th annual Earth Day this Sunday, we are highlighting our picks for the 11 greenest billionaires.
Taking that message of conservation and ecological harmony, the studio and Earth Day Network, together with various organizations worldwide, will pledge to plant one million trees across the globe by the end of 2010.
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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One original recipe, called "Malini's Curry Chickpeas" after the school's chef, was offered as an option in schools across the city on Earth Day, he said.
In his 2009 book, Storms of my Grandchildren, he argues that the Earth could one day become like the planet Venus, where temperatures are warm enough to melt lead.
In the spirit of Earth Day last Friday, I did some reading on what companies are doing these days to improve environmental sustainability, curious to see whether such programs are finding their way into incentive plans, and whether they are providing tangible results.
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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.
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.
The Mathematics of Planet Earth Day (MPE 2013) will take place at UNESCO Headquarters, in Paris on 5 March 2013.
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