Earth Day

Earth Day is a name used by two different observances held annually in the (northern) spring, both intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth's fragile environment. Earth Day is in the public domain and open to all persons to shape. Some grassroots Earth Day organizers seek to move the date of the observance to the Summer Solstice, to take advantage of the warm temperatures in the Northern hemisphere (where most people live) to create greater participation.

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"May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life."

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:--United Nations Secretary-General U ThantMarch 21, 1971.

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Summer Solstice: The summer solstice is an astronomical term regarding the position of the Sun in relation to the celestial equator. At the Summer Solstice the sun is 23.45 degrees North of the Celestial Equator (which is the Tropic of Cancer). The Summer Solstice along with the Winter Solstice, Vernal Equinox, and ...

United Nations: :This article is about the United Nations, for other uses of "UN" or "Un", see UN (disambiguation)...

U Thant: Maha Thray Sithu U Thant (January 22, 1909 – November 25, 1974) was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971. He was chosen for the post when the then Secretary-General Dag Hammarskj?ld was killed in an air crash in September 1961. To date, ...

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