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Are_grits_groceries

(17,111 posts)
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 07:48 AM Apr 2013

I 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."

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I marched on the first Earth Day. Anybody else? (Original Post) Are_grits_groceries Apr 2013 OP
I cut classes and went to DC Ichingcarpenter Apr 2013 #1
Yes, we held a funeral service for the Fox River at Elgin, IL it became a zombie river HereSince1628 Apr 2013 #2
I was in 5th grade I think. 6000eliot Apr 2013 #3
My boy scout troop cleaned out drainage ditches in a flood plain. riqster Apr 2013 #4
Sounds like the pond I used to swim in at the time. n/t malthaussen Apr 2013 #7
43 Years Ago...Skokie, Illinois... KharmaTrain Apr 2013 #5
I was part of a choral group malthaussen Apr 2013 #6
My sister did but I was too young! peace13 Apr 2013 #8
Was President of the Young Democrats group at my small college. We organized groups and went out. freshwest Apr 2013 #9
We set up some posters and displayed a solar dryer at University. Festivito Apr 2013 #10
Yes, at Macomb, Illinois CanonRay Apr 2013 #11
I cut classes and went to the teach in at ... prairierose Apr 2013 #12
"marched"?? It wasn't a day of protest (I was in college). WinkyDink Apr 2013 #13
"Walk" then. Are_grits_groceries Apr 2013 #15
I was there ..... oldhippie Apr 2013 #14

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
2. Yes, we held a funeral service for the Fox River at Elgin, IL it became a zombie river
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 08:01 AM
Apr 2013

with the addition of a "River Boad" casino.

riqster

(13,986 posts)
4. My boy scout troop cleaned out drainage ditches in a flood plain.
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 08:04 AM
Apr 2013

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.

KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
5. 43 Years Ago...Skokie, Illinois...
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 08:05 AM
Apr 2013

...also had our first hunger hike that year. Sheesh...time to scrape the barnacles off...

malthaussen

(17,066 posts)
6. I was part of a choral group
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 09:02 AM
Apr 2013

... 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)
8. My sister did but I was too young!
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 09:27 AM
Apr 2013

They roller skated to school and I remember it clearly! Hard to believe how far we didn't come!

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
9. Was President of the Young Democrats group at my small college. We organized groups and went out.
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 09:37 AM
Apr 2013

What we did privately was pretty much what we always did, as we lived the life, so to speak.

Festivito

(13,452 posts)
10. We set up some posters and displayed a solar dryer at University.
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 09:57 AM
Apr 2013

Mainly to interest students walking between classes.

prairierose

(2,145 posts)
12. I cut classes and went to the teach in at ...
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 10:45 AM
Apr 2013

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".

 

oldhippie

(3,249 posts)
14. I was there .....
Mon Apr 22, 2013, 11:12 AM
Apr 2013

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.

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