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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI marched on the first Earth Day. Anybody else?
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I was in high school and about 30 of us took a stroll that morning.
We seem to have improved some things and totally screwed up others. I don't know if I would have believed you if you had told me that the snows of Kilimanjaro would be gone.
As the Grateful Dead said,"What a long strange trip it's been."
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)I was going to Northern Virginia community college at the time.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)with the addition of a "River Boad" casino.
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)Our school did a lot of Earth Day activities as I recall.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Quite the eye-opening experience: we removed trash, tires, refrigerators, all sorts of crap from a several-mile long stretch of ditches south of my home town.
I think if everyone did that, they'd understand just how filthy our species really is.
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)KharmaTrain
(31,706 posts)...also had our first hunger hike that year. Sheesh...time to scrape the barnacles off...
malthaussen
(17,066 posts)... in my Junior High that spent the day going from class to class singing an anti-pollution song that had been written to the tune of "On Wisconsin." (Believe it or not, I still remember the lyrics. Memory is weird that way) We all wore white clothes and carried signs.
-- Mal
peace13
(11,076 posts)They roller skated to school and I remember it clearly! Hard to believe how far we didn't come!
freshwest
(53,661 posts)What we did privately was pretty much what we always did, as we lived the life, so to speak.
Festivito
(13,452 posts)Mainly to interest students walking between classes.
CanonRay
(14,038 posts)prairierose
(2,145 posts)the local college. There were many interesting presentations that day. One of the most urgent, locally, was cleaning up a river in the middle of the state. That was accomplished in pretty short order due to the publicity of the event. However, the larger, problems have not.
However, maybe because of that event, I have always driven small cars and recycled anything and everything I could and have been conscious of all that needed to be done to save humans. As my brother says, "...the planet will be just fine, humans, not so much".
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Are_grits_groceries
(17,111 posts)Will that do? Sheeesh!
oldhippie
(3,249 posts)Senior year of engineering school at Clarkson University in far upstate NY. We had a big (for us, we were a small school) rally in front of the student union. There was no Environmental Program in those days. Now Clarkson University is a big Environmental Engineering school.