Former Wisconsin Governor and Senator Gaylord Nelson is considered the founder of Earth Day in the U.S. The first Earth Day was celebrated in 1970 when 20 million people attended inaugural events ...

Summary "Gaylord Nelson is known and respected throughout the world as a founding father of the modern environmental movement and creator of Earth Day, the most influential public awareness campaign ...

MILWAUKEE - Gaylord Nelson, the folksy Democratic senator from Wisconsin who helped start the modern environmental movement with the creation of Earth Day 35 years ago, died Sunday. He was ...

Nelson chose April 22 as the national date for Earth Day because it best fit into college schedules between spring break and final exams. It would be the day of what they named the “National ...

"As the father of Earth Day, he is the grandfather of all that grew out of that event: the Environmental Protection Act, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act," read the ...

This coming Tuesday is the 55th anniversary of Earth Day. It was founded in 1970 by Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin as a way to educate people about environmental problems and the solutions to ...

Of that first Earth Day, Nelson wrote in an article for the April 1980 issue of the EPA Journal, “It was on that day that Americans made it clear that they understood and were deeply concerned ...

Carmen Ninham, 14, an Oneida tribe member, handed a pamphlet to Senator Gaylord Nelson when he arrived at Milwaukee Technical College to speak during an Earth Day rally in 1970.

Earth Day was conceived by U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, a Wisconsin Democrat who was concerned with the state of the environment in the 1960s.

Discover how Earth Day began in 1970, leading to pivotal US environmental laws and global activism.

When the first Earth Day was held on April 22, 1970, the founders — U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-WI) and activist Denis Hayes — ...

For over 50 years, people have celebrated Earth Day on April 22 to acknowledge and support environmental preservation. Former Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson first created Earth Day in 1970, ...