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hey guys i have a few updates for you:
I have a facebook fan page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/MattG/27754627976?re
f=s
also im going to be making a viewer mail video so
email me your question at
mattgformayor@hotmail.com
make the subject : viewer mail
ps thats not msn!
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Video: Planet Earth Trailer produced by Alastair
Fothergill and narrated by David Attenborough.
Earth Photo: The Blue Marble seen from Apollo 17.
Song: Sigur Rós - Hoppípolla
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Happy Earth Day!
See Also:
RB correspondent Drew Olanoff dumpster dives for
recyclables
http://rocketboom.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_Day
via http://www.drewolanoff.com/
Earthday quotes
http://rocketboom.wikia.com/wiki/Earth_Day
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By Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day
What was the purpose of Earth Day? How did it
start? These are the questions I am most
frequently asked.
Actually, the idea for Earth Day evolved over a
period of seven years starting in 1962. For
several years, it had been troubling me that the
state of our environment was simply a non-issue in
the politics of the country. Finally, in November
1962, an idea occurred to me that was, I thought,
a virtual cinch to put the environment into the
political "limelight" once and for all. The idea
was to persuade President Kennedy to give
visibility to this issue by going on a national
conservation tour. I flew to Washington to discuss
the proposal with Attorney General Robert Kennedy,
who liked the idea. So did the President. The
President began his five-day, eleven-state
conservation tour in September 1963. For many
reasons the tour did not succeed in putting the
issue onto the national political agenda. However,
it was the germ of the idea that ultimately
flowered into Earth Day.
I continued to speak on environmental issues to a
variety of audiences in some twenty-five states.
All across the country, evidence of environmental
degradation was appearing everywhere, and everyone
noticed except the political establishment. The
environmental issue simply was not to be found on
the nation's political agenda. The people were
concerned, but the politicians were not.
After President Kennedy's tour, I still hoped for
some idea that would thrust the environment into
the political mainstream. Six years would pass
before the idea that became Earth Day occurred to
me while on a conservation speaking tour out West
in the summer of 1969. At the time, anti-Vietnam
War demonstrations, called "teach-ins," had spread
to college campuses all across the nation.
Suddenly, the idea occurred to me - why not
organize a huge grassroots protest over what was
happening to our environment?
I was satisfied that if we could tap into the
environmental concerns of the general public and
infuse the student anti-war energy into the
environmental cause, we could generate a
demonstration that would force this issue onto the
political agenda. It was a big gamble, but worth a
try.
At a conference in Seattle in September 1969, I
announced that in the spring of 1970 there would
be a nationwide grassroots demonstration on behalf
of the environment and invited everyone to
participate. The wire services carried the story
from coast to coast. The response was electric. It
took off like gangbusters. Telegrams, letters, and
telephone inquiries poured in from all across the
country. The American people finally had a forum
to express its concern about what was happening to
the land, rivers, lakes, and air - and they did so
with spectacular exuberance. For the next four
months, two members of my Senate staff, Linda
Billings and John Heritage, managed Earth Day
affairs out of my Senate office.
Five months before Earth Day, on Sunday, November
30, 1969, The New York Times carried a lengthy
article by Gladwin Hill reporting on the
astonishing proliferation of environmental events:
"Rising concern about the environmental crisis is
sweeping the nation's campuses with an intensity
that may be on its way to eclipsing student
discontent over the war in Vietnam...a national
day of observance of environmental problems...is
being planned for next spring...when a nationwide
environmental 'teach-in'...coordinated from the
office of Senator Gaylord Nelson is planned...."
It was obvious that we were headed for a
spectacular success on Earth Day. It was also
obvious that grassroots activities had ballooned
beyond the capacity of my U.S. Senate office staff
to keep up with the telephone calls, paper work,
inquiries, etc. In mid-January, three months
before Earth Day, John Gardner, Founder of Common
Cause, provided temporary space for a Washington,
D.C. headquarters. I staffed the office with
college students and selected Denis Hayes as
coordinator of activities.
Earth Day worked because of the spontaneous
response at the grassroots level. We had neither
the time nor resources to organize 20 million
demonstrators and the thousands of schools and
local communities that participated. That was the
remarkable thing about Earth Day. It organized
itself.
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Thomas Friedman, the author and NY Times
columnist, was invited to Brown University to give
a keynote speech on Earth Day, before a packed
auditorium. His talk, titled "Green is the new
Red White and Blue" was about how corporate
environmentalism (based on putting a price on the
atmosphere, and investing in biofuels and
techno-fixes) can restore America to its "natural
place in the global order." Luckily, this
outrageous neoliberal capitalist propaganda was
interrupted with a suprise visit from the
Greenwash Guerrillas. Leaflets were thrown to the
crowd, stating:
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Thomas Friedman deserves a pie in the face...
* because of his sickeningly cheery applaud for
free market capitalism's conquest of the planet
* for telling the world that the free market and
techno fixes can save us from climate change.
From carbon trading to biofuels, these
distractions are dangerous in and of themselves,
while encouraging inaction with respect to the
true problems at hand.
* for helping turn environmentalism into a fake
plastic consumer product for the privileged
* For his long-standing support for the US
Occupation of Iraq and the Israeli occupation of
Palestine. Such committed support to the US War
Machine and its proxy states overseas cannot be
masked behind any twisted mask of "green" - the US
Military is the largest single emitter of
greenhouse gases in the world.
* for his pure arrogance.
On behalf of the earth and all true
environmentalists -- we, the Greenwash Guerrillas,
declare Thomas Friedman's "Green" as fake and
toxic to human and planetary health as the
cool-whip covering his face.
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