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</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The history of Earth Day has Spartan fingerprints all over it.</font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Flash back to Feb. 24, 1970 — faculty and students at San José State College (now SJSU) called for the end of internal combustion automobiles at </span><a href="https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/4354/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 85, 162); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Survival Faire’s Great Car Burial</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">, where a brand new 1970 Ford Maverick was buried on campus. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></font></p><div id="attachment_47003" class="wp-caption alignright" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px 30px; padding: 8px; border: none; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); max-width: 96%; float: right; line-height: 18px; width: 310px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-47003" src="https://blogs.sjsu.edu/newsroom/files/2023/04/1970_car-buried-for-Earth-Day-2-400x601.jpg" width="300" height="498" alt="Students gathered around a car as it is buried on campus at SJSU." class="wp-image-47003 size-medium" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></font><p id="caption-attachment-47003" class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At the Survival Faire’s Great Car Burial in 1970, faculty and students at San José State College (now SJSU) called for the end of internal combustion automobiles by burying a brand new Ford Maverick. Photo from Spartan Daily.</font></p></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Two months later, San José State alumnus </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Gaylord Nelson, ’39 Political Science, </span><span style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">held the first nationwide teach-in on the environment, which became Earth Day, sparking a movement that has only grown more significant in the past 53 years. </span></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is not widely known if Nelson, who was a U.S. Senator for the state of Wisconsin at the time, knew about the demonstration at his alma mater. But it is clear that SJSU and Spartan alumni are at the forefront of promoting social and environmental justice through civic action. </font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Fast forward to the SJSU of today — there are many ways in which Spartans are studying and engaging with a changing world. From ocean health to outer space and every point in between, t</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">he focus on climate science and saving our planet continues at San José State, where research opportunities continue to grow. </span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">According to the </span><a href="https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/srvyherd/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 85, 162); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">‘23 National Science Foundation Higher Education Research and Development survey</span></a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">, SJSU is #1 in research among all non PhD granting universities. SJSU’s </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">research, scholarship, and creative activity (RSCA) </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">has grown more than 53% in the last 4 years, with plans to double research spending by 2030.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Many </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">faculty and students are examining a fascinating array of research issues that impact climate change. Here are a just few climate related research projects currently underway:</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Assistant Professor Jessica Castillo-Vardaro</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">, Biology, studies mammals and how they adapt to changing temperatures and environments in mountain environments. </span><a href="https://www.castillovardaro.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 85, 162); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Learn more here.</span></a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Associate Professor Minghui Diao</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">, Meteorology and Climate Science, researches ice and mixed-phase clouds, providing accurate quantification on the climate impacts of cirrus clouds</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">. </span><a href="https://www.cloud-research.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 85, 162); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Learn more here.</span></a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Assistant Professor Maya deVries</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">, Biology, investigates climate change stressors such as ocean acidification and ocean warming, and how they’re impacting marine food webs. </span><a href="https://buff.ly/3Gz32GF" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 85, 162); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Learn more here.</span></a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Professor Phil Heller</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">, ’08 MS Computer Science, Computer Science, uses AI Deep Learning on tens of thousands of microphotographs to study changing ocean habitats. </span><a href="http://go.sjsu.edu/PhillipHeller" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 85, 162); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Learn more here.</span></a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Professor Amanda Kahn, </b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Invertebrate Ecology, studies how climate change affects marine sponges and corals, which are both important members of the marine community. </span><a href="https://mlml.sjsu.edu/invertebrate-ecology/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 85, 162); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Learn more here.</span></a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">Professor Kate Wilkins</b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;">, Biology, studies the ecology of areas that buffer climate change and allow species to persist in or expand under changing environmental conditions. </span><a href="https://fireecology.wixsite.com/katewilkin" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 85, 162); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">e<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">arth Day was Gaylord Nelson’s idea.</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During his career, he developed a strong personal and political agenda for environmental action. He earned national fame as the <a href="https://wwwtest.nelsonearthday.net/conservation-governor-redefining-environmentalism/" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; word-break: break-word;">“Conservation Governor”</a> for his efforts to expand recreation land and preserve Wisconsin’s natural resources. In Washington, D.C., he vowed to fight for environmental protection despite finding few allies.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 1969, he came up with a new plan to build a political environmental agenda in Washington. While flying back from touring the ravaged landscapes of California after a huge oil spill, he read an article about “teach-ins” organized by college students and faculty to raise awareness on campus about the Vietnam War.</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">w<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hat if, Nelson wondered, hundreds of colleges across the country hosted environmental teach-ins all at the same time? The grassroots outcry might prove to Washington just how distressed Americans were in every constituency.</span></font></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He floated this notion in a speech to a fledgling conservation group in Seattle on September 9, 1969, and then again six days later in Atlantic City to a meeting of the United Auto Workers.</font></p><div class="breakout" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; padding: 25px 25px 10px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 600; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Setting the Record Straight</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Learn more about Earth Day’s origins in a <a href="https://nelsonearthday.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nelson-2-15-cbs-news-letter.pdf" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; word-break: break-word;">letter Gaylord Nelson wrote to the CBS television network in 1971 (pdf)</a>. The letter explains how Nelson got the idea for Earth Day, his role in promoting it, and what happened in the year since Earth Day 1970.</font></p></div><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin: 50px 0px 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; transition-property: all;"><a name="proposal" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: underline; word-break: break-word;" /></span>A Proposal Reprinted Across the Country</span></font></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Within a few months, the Earth Day idea had become a nationwide grassroots event supported by millions of people. How did this happen so quickly?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The idea’s momentum began with newspapers. The Associated Press and United Press picked up the story in September 1969 and newspapers across the country reprinted Nelson’s proposal</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><figure style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><figure id="attachment_195" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-195" class="wp-caption alignright" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 24px 0px 24px 24px; max-width: 100%; float: right; text-align: right; width: 300px;"><a href="https://nelsonearthday.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nelson-newsletter-nov69.jpg" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; word-break: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-195 lazy loaded" src="https://wwwtest.nelsonearthday.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nelson-newsletter-nov69.jpg" data-src="https://wwwtest.nelsonearthday.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nelson-newsletter-nov69.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="489" data-srcset="https://nelsonearthday.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nelson-newsletter-nov69.jpg 680w, https://nelsonearthday.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nelson-newsletter-nov69-184x300.jpg 184w" data-sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" srcset="https://nelsonearthday.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nelson-newsletter-nov69.jpg 680w, https://nelsonearthday.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/nelson-newsletter-nov69-184x300.jpg 184w" data-was-processed="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 1px; min-width: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%; border-style: none;" /></font></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-195" class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; text-align: center; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The November 1969 issue of the Gaylord Nelson Newsletter included details about Nelson’s plan for a national teach-in on the environment. Click image for a larger view.</font></figcaption></figure></figure><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Nelson Leads Movement,” the headline in the Manitowoc Herald Times<em style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px;"> </em>proclaimed. Readers learned of a day when “college scientists, public leaders, students, and faculty to discuss threats to the ecology of the world.” Nelson’s relayed his wish to see programs scheduled at all the nation’s universities.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As wire stories popped up in the next few weeks, the national press took notice.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A small notice in Time on October 10 notified millions of Americans about the teach-in. “Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson is convinced that the hottest growth stick in U.S. protest is conservation,</b>” the article titled “American the Befouled” began. “In fact, he has been toiling to make the nation’s campuses erupt next spring — in a giant, peaceful teach-in about environmental evils.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many read these words and immediately got to work planning their own events.</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin: 50px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Continuing the Momentum</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On November 11, 1969, Nelson and his staff announced that April 22, 1970 — a date chosen to fit best in college schedules between spring break and final exams — would be the day of what they named the “National Teach-In on the Crisis of the Environment.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Another flurry of media attention followed. His November Senate newsletter announced the proposal to his Wisconsin constituents. A New York Times article featured a photograph of University of Minnesota students conducting a ceremonial burial of an internal combustion engine and included the prediction that Nelson’s teach-in “could be a bigger and more meaningful even than the antiwar demonstrations.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Press coverage swelled throughout the winter and into the spring of 1970. Several newspapers and magazines hired reporters to cover the new environmental beat.<em style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px;"> </em>Life, Newsweek, Time, Fortune, Esquire and other major periodicals published special environmental editions.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nelson’s teach-in proposal simultaneously gained grassroots support and national publicity from this widespread media attention.</font></p><h2 style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.2; margin: 50px 0px 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dawn of the Environmental Decade</font></h2><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://nelsonearthday.net/april-22-1970-first-earth-day/index.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; word-break: break-word;">The first Earth Day, on April 22, 1970</a>, brought together millions of people and gave rise to the modern American environmental movement.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some of its participants had been fighting for a long time against ecological degradation; others had been moved to act more recently, perhaps after reading Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” seeing televised images of the Santa Barbara oil spill, or confronting suburban sprawl.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earth Day merged an array of concerns into a common cause and a diversity of activists into a powerful political force. It was a watershed moment, kicking off what is now termed the <a href="https://nelsonearthday.net/conservation-governor-redefining-environmentalism/index.html#decade" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; word-break: break-word;">“Environmental Decade”</a> of radical legislative reforms.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Throughout his life Nelson remained modest about his own contribution but was extremely proud of the nation’s response:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Earth Day worked because of the spontaneous response at the <a href="https://nelsonearthday.net/grassroots-movement/index.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s; word-break: break-word;">grassroots level</a>. 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