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Earth Day History

Earth Day, first observed on 22 April 1970, is considered the beginning of the modern environmental movement.

As a response to increasing environmental concerns, like the oil spill in Santa Barbara in 1969, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day to raise awareness about how to protect the environment.

Nelson and activist Denis Hayes organized teach-ins on college campuses that included various groups and organizations, drawing inspiration from protest teach-ins of the era.

With this massive mobilization, the U.S. developed key environmental laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created.

Earth Day 2024 Theme

The theme of Earth Day 2024 is “Planet vs. Plastics.”

This is about fighting the big problem of plastic all over the world. Earth Day organization wants to bring people from different places together.

The goal is to make much less plastic, 60% less by 2040.

We want a future without so much plastic. This is not just about having less trash, but it is also about keeping us and the environment healthy.

#Earth Day #Earth Day 2024 #environmental movement #environmental concerns #U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson #Denis Hayes #Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)#Planet vs. Plastics #environmental laws #environment #save mother earth

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thatonewatercat · 1 year

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Hey this is like really important guys. its about oil drilling in alaska that could demolish the untouched environment there and is very much likely to win out entire species. Please sign this, leave a comment, or donate if you can. Here's a video explaining it better than i can:

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thank you, and please reblog so this can reach more people.

#important #environment #willow project #environmental concerns #climate change #alaska #politics

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bad-artist-non-historian · 1 year

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Maybe this is old news...

Protest groups of up to 20, 000 people have been marching in Messina and Rome to protest Giorgia Meloni’s plan to build a bridge from Messina to Villa San Giovanni (Calabria), whether because they doubt the project will ever get off the ground (aka be permanently stalled) or for environmental concerns (it would be more environmentally responsible to use short-sea shipping tactics, plus the area around Messina is dangerous for big bridges because of the fault lines and Mt. Etna). According to this article, while it would spur much-needed infrastructural investments (you don’t build a bridge without investing in the roads and railroads leading up to it), it isn’t feasible that this project would ever become a reality. As Aurelio Angelini said, it is an act of political grandstanding to appeal to the nation’s poorest regions. In short, it is Giorgia Meloni being a populist and nothing more.

#italy #populism #government #sicily #sicilians #giorgia meloni #infrastructure #funding #mafia #screw the mafia #calabria #environmental concerns #Mt. Etna #resignation #bridges

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malenipshadows · 1 year

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“Concentrations of carbon dioxide and methane have continued to rise despite an urgent need to reduce them.” [Excerpted from The Washington Post.com.] Last year was the fifth hottest ever recorded on the planet, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service announced Tuesday [01-10-2023]. It was part of an unabated broader warming trend as humans continue to pump massive amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Extreme heat waves in Europe, Asia and the United States — which stemmed in part from more than a century of burning fossil fuels — helped drive 2022’s unusual warmth, researchers found. Europe sweltered through its hottest summer on record and its second-hottest year overall, researchers said. Pakistan experienced catastrophic flooding as a result of extreme rainfall. In February, Antarctic Sea ice reached its lowest minimum in 44 years of satellite records. The year “2022 was yet another ... of climate extremes across Europe and globally. These events highlight that we are already experiencing the devastating consequences of our warming world,” Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus, said in a statement announcing the annual findings. [Remainder omitted.]

#climate change #environmental issues #environmental concerns #environmental news #global warming #greenhouse gases #Copernicus Climate Change Service #extreme heat waves #burning fossil fuels #melting of ice packs #catastrophic flooding #extreme rainfall #you find the most interesting things on Tumblr #your time spent on Tumblr is not wasted

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whatnext10 · 2 years

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World Environment Day’s Important Theme: Only One Earth

Longleaf Pine Savanna Today is World Environment Day, but it’s not just any World Environment Day. Today is the 50th anniversary of the first World Environment Day, held in Stockholm, Sweden. That first meeting, held on June 5, 1972 was not called World Environment Day, but rather it was titled The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, and was the first ever international…

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#environment #environmental concerns #environmental conservation #environmental health #landscape photographs #landscapes #nature #nature photographs #Only One Earth #World Environment Day

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don-lichterman · 2 years

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California debates listing western Joshua tree as threatened | Science News

By KATHLEEN RONAYNE – Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials are weighing whether to list the iconic western Joshua tree as a threatened species, a designation that would make it harder to remove the trees for housing, solar or other development projects. The desert plant is known for its unique appearance, with spiky leaves on the end of its branches, is found in the…

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xtruss · 1 month

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Lois Gibbs never avoided the spotlight in her fight to protect Love Canal's families from chemical waste. The press surrounds her outside the Love Canal Homeowners Association in 1980 as Gibbs waits for a phone call from the White House. Photograph By Mickey H. Osterreicher

Meet The Mom Who Took On Toxic Waste—And Won

The Love Canal disaster transformed homemaker Lois Gibbs into an environmental warrior after she learned her Niagara Falls neighborhood was built on poisoned ground.

— By Erin Blakemore | April 19, 2024

When Lois and Harry Gibbs moved to a three-bedroom home in Niagara Falls, New York, in 1972, the young wife thought she’d hit the jackpot. “I really thought I had succeeded in finding the best house in this entire country,” Gibbs recalls. Her husband, a chemical worker, had a good job. Her neighbors were close-knit, the area idyllic. And kids, were everywhere, roaming the neighborhood, swimming in the local creek—the Love Canal neighborhood was an area “alive” with children.

But things were not what they seemed. Under the surface, in the soil beneath its perfect houses, lay chemical contamination from a toxic waste dump—a ticking time bomb that would result in disease, tragedy, and Gibbs’ transformation from shy housewife into a nationally known environmental activist.

Buried Dangers

Years earlier, the partially developed Love Canal became a dump, courtesy of the Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation, which buried over 20,000 tons of toxic chemicals there between 1942 and 1952. Eventually, the company leased the area to the Niagara Falls Board of Education for $1, complete with a deed that contained a disclaimer excusing Hooker Chemical from any liability related to the chemical dumping. In the years that followed, the land surrounding 16-acre landfill became a neighborhood complete with tract homes, churches, and trees.

Left: Founded in 1903 in Rochester, New York, the Hooker Chemical and Plastics Corporation disposed of some 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal between 1942 and 1952. Photograph By Bettmann/Getty Images Right: Map

By 1978, the site was home to an elementary school, and houses like Gibbs’ lined Love Canal’s placid streets. The school was a hub for the area’s stay-at-home moms, Gibbs recalls. Since the school didn’t have a cafeteria, Gibbs and other women would bring their children their lunches at mid-day. She’d walk to the 99th Street School, pushing her daughter in a stroller, and spread out a blanket on the school playground, where the family would eat along with the other mothers and kids.

“Oh, my God,” she says. “How many times did we eat on a toxic waste dump?”

Surfacing troubles

The first sign of trouble at Love Canal appeared in 1976, when the Niagara Gazette reported that some homes were experiencing chemical leaching in their basements. But Gibbs didn’t take note until her five-year-old son Michael began having seizures. “My sense was that the playground was where he was getting exposed,” she says. “I really thought that Michael was somehow more sensitive, and that the school board should move him [to another school] right away.”

The family had no history of epilepsy, and a consultation with her brother-in-law, a biologist, made her wonder if Michael’s problems had something to do with the chemicals. Citing the potential danger of the site, she petitioned the school board to move Michael. But when they denied the request, she sprang into action.

“I have an Irish temper. You can’t sit there and tell me you’re not going to move my child,” she says, her voice still bristling forty-six years later. “We’re gonna fix this.”

Taking Action

Soon, she was going door to door with a petition to shut down the school. But as she surveyed her neighbors, she realized she wasn’t the only mom whose kid was sick.

Health problems were everywhere in Love Canal, from hyperactivity to epilepsy, migraines to miscarriages. Neighbors began telling her about cancer, kidney problems, lung issues. Eventually, Gibbs realized that a full 56 percent of children born to Love Canal residents within the last five years had been born with a congenital anomaly.

“I heard about a 12-year-old who had to have a hysterectomy,” says Gibbs. “A woman with two crib deaths. These weren’t normal things.”

Though the state health department agreed to run tests on homes near the dump site, progress was slow. Once officials began environmental testing, residents were shocked by the sheer extent of the contamination. It wasn’t just the playground. It was the basements. The back yards. The bedrooms. The drains. An ocean of deadly chemicals was percolating upwards from the ground: benzene, dioxin, toluene. Ultimately, over 100 deadly compounds were confirmed at the site. The air was polluted; so was the groundwater.

Poisonous Impacts

By then, Gibbs was president of the Love Canal Neighborhood Association, a grassroots group devoted to figuring out what was wrong in their neighborhood. Obtaining evidence of the unfolding disaster turned out to be the easy part. Getting the right people to listen was another matter entirely, says Gibbs.

The women put in hundreds of hours on the telephone, going house to house, begging local and then national officials to help. They circulated petitions, collected evidence, and lobbied. Once shy and reserved, Gibbs was now in the center of a tornado of publicity, unanswered pleas, and a continual sense of dread about what the chemicals were doing to her community.

Lois Gibbs's grassroots efforts brought national attention to the Love Canal environmental disaster. Photograph Courtesy of University Archives, University at Buffalo 🦬, The State University of New York

Meanwhile, the life she loved was collapsing before her eyes. People had started dying, including a young boy, John Allen Kenny, who had often swum in the creek behind his house. Gibbs found herself advising and comforting her distraught neighbors, including one chemical worker who unburdened himself to her.

“I had never seen a man cry before,” she recalls. “This was a macho, blue-collar man. He talked about playing football with the little boy.” These kinds of incidents became a daily occurrence.

So did the pressure. “No longer is her house clean, her floors waxed, and her dinner on the table by five o’clock,” a reporter wrote in 1978. This was a bone of contention with her husband Harry, who expected her to cook him dinner. “When is this going to be over?” he’d ask. “I want dinner.”

Fighting While Female

Gibbs’ identity as a stay-at-home mother turned out to be a blessing and a curse. As one reporter wrote, it enabled her to ask “innocent but deadly” questions, disarming powerful officials without intimidating them. But it also opened her up to criticism, gossip, and sexism.

“I’m a woman, so I can’t be too bright,” says Gibbs. People would ask if it was her “time of month,” implying that her pleas were hysterical. Eventually, she says, she heard that lawmakers in Albany had given her a nickname. “Instead of calling me the Love Canal president, it was ‘The Bitch.’”

In August 1978, state officials evacuated pregnant women and children under the age of two from the Love Canal neighborhood. But that wasn’t enough for Gibbs and her neighbors. They filed lawsuits, picketed, and disseminated the growing evidence that the neighborhood was even more polluted than first thought. Finally, in May 1980, President Jimmy Carter declared a national emergency at the site. Ultimately, about 950 families left Love Canal.

The health consequences of Love Canal were dire. Follow-up studies showed that women living in the neighborhood during their reproductive years were twice as likely to give birth to a child with a congenital anomaly and at higher risk for giving birth to a baby with low birth weight. Residence in the neighborhood has also been linked to higher rates of rheumatic heart disease, heart attacks, and cancer of the lungs, kidney, and bladder. However, the exact effects of the environmental disaster may never be fully ascertained, given the difficulty of determining precise exposure rates to chemicals in the landfill.

Gibbs continued to fight for environmental justice even after Love Canal. Here she leads a protest outside the Virginia home of EPA official Rita Lavelle, who would be convicted in 1984 of misusing funds from the Superfund program. Photograph By Scott Stewart/AP

Love Canal Legacy

Today, Gibbs is considered one of the mothers of the environmental movement. Her efforts at Love Canal put the dangers of toxic chemical contamination into the national spotlight, prompting the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program, a program that cleans up contaminated sites, and the attention of scientists who continue to study the dangers of chemical contamination for humans.

Her story—and that of the others who fought for environmental justice in the Love Canal neighborhood—has inspired many TV films and documentaries. The latest is American Experience’s Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal, premiering on Earth Day 2024.

Their tale is closely tied to neighborly collaboration, but ironically, Gibbs’ fight led to the demise of the neighborhood she loved so much. Though she’s still in contact with her former neighbors, the Love Canal evacuation spread them all over the country. Eventually the entire Love Canal neighborhood was demolished. “It’s gone. It’s just gone,” says Gibbs. “It’s hard to put a value on that.”

Though her children are currently healthy, she says she still worries for their long-term health and that of their successors. “There’s always a cloud,” says Gibbs. Ultimately, though, she sees her work at Love Canal as a triumph. “We won,” she says. Gibbs went on to found the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice, becoming a key figure in the environmental movement and inspiring generations of grassroots activists.

And if she could do it, anyone can.

“Democracy works,” she says. “[We] stood together and had a united goal. You can do that for any issue. If people would participate in democracy, we could change the world in ways that are not even imaginable right now.”

#Toxic Waste #Activism #Environmental Concerns #Environmental Justice #Modern History #Pollution #Environment & Conservation

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prabodhjamwal · 1 month

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In Defence Of Ladakh’s Movement For Constitutional Safeguards: A Balance Sheet Of Apprehensions And The Logic Of Demand

“Extinction of cultural identities through different means like displacement, and no safeguards in their preservation, particularly language, are not merely distant future realities. Such unfortunate realities have always found their place in the history of India. According to Ganesh Narayan Devy, a literary critic, India may have lost 220 languages since 1961 – a staggering and unfortunate state…

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ncfcatalyst · 1 month

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More plastic grass?

The April 17 message from an on-site observer was simple but clear: “Looks like more turf is going in. And a lot of it.” On Thursday, April 18, Catalyst reporters documented that the grass of the Mildred Sainer Fine Arts Complex courtyard was indeed slated to be replaced with artificial turf. This follows the replacement of living grass in ACE Plaza and in front of the Jane Bancroft Cook…

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#environmental concerns #mildred sainer fine arts complex #sainer courtyard #turf

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redreadretale · 2 months

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If you read my post about my abusive neighbors- you’ll understand my health depends on getting my fresh backyard air back.

Their carcinogenic contaminated air is trespassing into my property, home & lungs. 14-18 hours a day.

For starters, I have been monitoring their pollution levels entering my yard, trying to protect my dog & I.

He has developed 3 types of tumors/cancers from these peoples toxic pollution.

With this, I can monitor & get data about what they are exposing us to- & this data will help authorities step in.

Tennessee has a non-smokers protection act. Every state should. Smoking is poison & societies thinking it is anything else is brainwashing that must be replaced with rational truth. It’s also the dumbest drug, the body gets a longer better buzz from eating cheese or going for a 10 min brisk walk.

Read Allan Carr- ‘the easy way to quit smoking’. His sanity will get you through a few days of cravings because no one actually wants to be a slave to tobacco. Break free!

Of course there are many air pollutants we deal with, so let’s get monitoring! And proactive about the air we breathe. My neighbors could buy one every 2-3 weeks with what they spend on tobacco.

Maybe you are just cautious & curious about your air, indoor or outdoor.

Check out this company for your air monitors.

Not to DIY or tech savy?

They have plenty of video & web links with instructions. They are able to keep the cost reasonable by using open software & offering….. go to their website & check it out.

I wish I could get promo mola! But nope- I’m just a concerned & caring citizen of earth & sharing a great thing :)

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livelocalorganic · 4 months

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What Does it Mean to Live a Sustainable Lifestyle

In today’s world, where environmental concerns are at the forefront of global conversations, more and more people are seeking ways to live a sustainable lifestyle. But what exactly does it mean to live sustainably? In this blog post, we will delve into the concept of sustainable living and explore its various aspects, from eco-friendly practices to conscious consumption. Join us on this…

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#conscious consumption #conscious fashion choices #eco-friendly practices #eco-friendly transportation #energy conservation #environmental concerns #fair and equitable treatment #preserving natural resources #sustainability #sustainable business practices #sustainable food choices #sustainable lifestyle

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spiritguru-sloppypears · 4 months

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Remember to do the best you can to help the environment and decrease greenhouse gas emissions any way you can.

Felt that it was important to share this.

You can make a difference.

#environmental concerns #environment #protect the environment

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arrowheadsuperiorrefrigeration · 5 months

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Commercial refrigeration, along with air conditioning service in Peoria, Arizona, plays a crucial role in preserving perishable goods, maintaining food safety standards, and ensuring the freshness of products in various industries. The demand for efficient and sustainable commercial refrigeration solutions is steadily increasing, from supermarkets to restaurants to pharmaceutical companies and research laboratories.

#Consumer Trends #Energy Efficiency #Environmental Concerns

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k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9 · 7 months

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whatnext10 · 9 months

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The Important Link Between the Environment and Our Future

The Important Link Between the Environment and Our Future reminds readers of the importance of the environment in life today and in the future. It warns that without better stewardship of our environment we will destroy things for future generations.

Close of the Day The environment holds the key to our future, shaping the world we will pass on to generations to come. Its importance cannot be overstated, as it affects every aspect of our lives, from the air we breathe to the resources we rely on. By recognizing the significance of the environment, we can pave the way for a sustainable and thriving future. 1. Ecosystem Services: The…

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thetatvagirl · 9 months

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Green Talks Ep 39 – Listen to the sustainable side of a journalist and communication consultant Feat - Ashraf Engineer who hosts the All Indians Matter podcast.

Podcasts are a great way to learn more about the world around you. And when it comes to growing environmental concerns and climate action, podcasts certainly play a very significant role. The latest news says that Disney finally revealed the newest addition to the Frozen franchise, and it’s not an animated film, but a podcast, Yes you heard it right, The Disney Frozen Podcast: Forces of Nature,…