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Environment & Energy

bucolic_frolic

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1. The First Earth Day, 1970

Reply to DBoon (Original post)

Wed Apr 22, 2020, 12:41 PM

Apr 2020

On the first Earth Day, 1970, I was handed a seedling at school. That seedling spent 3 years in a coffee can, was planted, and moved to another house. Today it's about 75 feet tall, a Norway Spruce, laden with cones most years, and still growing:

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NYT: How Earth Day started, its profound radical message [View all] DBoon Apr 2020 OP

The First Earth Day, 1970 bucolic_frolic Apr 2020 #1

The NY Times features some of the worst environmental reporting in the world. NNadir Apr 2020 #2

You are absolutely detestable DBoon Apr 2020 #3

Thank you. I'm very proud of looking at data and not marketing. NNadir Apr 2020 #4