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Earth Day: Encyclopedia II - Earth Day - The April 22 Earth Day

In January 1970, the Environmental Teach-In, decided to call their one-off event on 22 April Earth Day. The successes of that day led to it becoming a regular event. Gaylord Nelson, an environmental activist in the U.S. Senate, took a leading role in organizing the celebration, to demonstrate popular political support for an environmental agenda. Senator Nelson staffed the office with college students and selected Denis Hayes (a Harvard student and Stanford graduate) as coordinator of activities. It was the era of student political activi ...

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Value of Earth - Replacement methods

Earth Day: Encyclopedia - Pollution

Environmental Pollution is the release of harmful environmental contaminants, or the substances so released. Generally the process needs to result from human activity to be regarded as pollution. Even relatively benign products of human activity are liable to be regarded as pollution, if they precipitate negative effects later on. The nitrogen oxides produced by industry are often referred to as pollution, for example, although the substances themselves are not harmful. In fact, it is solar energy ( ...

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Pollution - Headline text

Pollution - Regulation and Monitoring

Pollution - International

Pollution - United States

Earth Day: Encyclopedia - 1971

1971 (MCMLXXI) is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). 1971 - Events. January 1 - British Divorce Reform Act comes into force January 2 - 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster. January 2 - A ban on television cigarette advertisements goes into effect in the United States. January 3 - BBC Open University begins in the United Kingdom Januar ...

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Earth Day: Encyclopedia - 1970

1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. 1970 is the Unix epoch time. 1970 - Events. January 1 - Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65 miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 - Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 5 - The first episode of All My Children was broadcast on the ABC television network. January 12 - Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January 15 - After a 32-mo ...

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1970 - Fields Medalists

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Earth Day: Encyclopedia II - Pollution - Regulation and Monitoring

Pollution - International. The Kyoto Protocol is an amendment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), an international treaty on global warming. It also reaffirms sections of the UNFCCC. Countries which ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases, or engage in emissions trading if they maintain or increase emissions of these gases. A total of 141 countries have ratified the agreement. Notable exceptions include the United S ...

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1993 in music - Events

1993 in music - Albums released

1993 in music - Top hits

1993 in music - Top Ten Selling Albums of the Year

1993 in music - Classical music

1993 in music - Opera

1993 in music - Musical theater

1993 in music - Births

1993 in music - Deaths

1993 in music - Awards

1993 in music - Grammy Awards

1993 in music - Country Music Association Awards

1993 in music - Eurovision Song Contest

1993 in music - Mercury Music Prize

1993 in music - Charts

1993 in music - KROQ

1993 in music - Triple J Hottest 100

Earth Day: Encyclopedia - Al Gore

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and businessman, who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He ran for President in 2000 following Bill Clinton's two four-year terms, and won the popular vote. However he was narrowly defeated in the Electoral College vote by the Republican candidate George W. Bush in a bitterly contested election which included multiple recounts and a 5- ...

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Al Gore - Early and personal life

Al Gore - Family

Al Gore - Vietnam War service

Al Gore - Vietnam and journalism

Al Gore - Military service

Al Gore - Congressman and Senator

Al Gore - Vice Presidency

Al Gore - 2000 presidential election

Al Gore - Private citizen

Al Gore - 2004 presidential election

Al Gore - Views and controversies

Al Gore - Al Gore Television Credits

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Earth Day: Encyclopedia - CN Tower

Canada's CN Tower is the tallest land-based free-standing structure in the world, at 553.33 metres (1,815.39 feet). It is located in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is considered the signature icon of the city (Geographic coordinates: 43°38′33.24″N, 79°23′13.7″W). The CN Tower attracts over 2 million visitors annually. Construction on the CN Tower started on February 6, 1973 by Canadian National Railway who wanted to build a larg ...

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CN Tower - Size comparisons

CN Tower - Trivia

CN Tower - Similar buildings

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Earth Day: Encyclopedia - 1970s

1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. Informally, it can also include a few years at the end of the preceding decade or the beginning of the following decade. The United States, which had become an influential global power, experienced much of the transition. While the sixties saw social activism, society became more self-absorbed in the seventies. Analyst and writer Tom Wolfe epitomized this feeling in 1976, calling the seventies th ...

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1970s - Worldwide trends in the Seventies

1970s - Economy of the Seventies

1970s - Oil crisis

1970s - Social movements

1970s - Environmentalism

1970s - Feminism

1970s - Gay rights

1970s - Culture during the Seventies

1970s - Emerging social perspectives in the Seventies

1970s - The Seventies in music

1970s - The Seventies in cinema

1970s - The Seventies in television

1970s - The Seventies in literature

1970s - The Seventies in architecture

1970s - The Seventies in science and philosophy

1970s - The Seventies in sports

1970s - The Seventies in technology

1970s - National issues

1970s - In the Middle East

1970s - In Africa

1970s - In India and Pakistan

1970s - In Southeast Asia

1970s - In Japan

1970s - In the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc

1970s - In the United States

1970s - In the United Kingdom

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Earth Day: Encyclopedia - Alfred Webre

Alfred Lambremont Webre (born May 24, 1942) is an author, lawyer, environmentalist and a space activist who promotes the ban of space weapons. He was born in a U.S. Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida. He is the co-architect of the Space Preservation Treaty and the Space Preservation Act that was introduced to the U.S. Congress by Congressman Dennis Kucinich and is endorsed by 274 NGO's worldwide. He helped draft the Citizen Hearing in 2000 with Stephen Bassett and serves as a member of the Board of Advisors. He is presently the I ...

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Alfred Webre - Early years and education

Alfred Webre - Early career

Alfred Webre - 1977 Carter White House proposed extraterrestrial communication study

Alfred Webre - Later career

Alfred Webre - Non-governmental organizations & community participation

Alfred Webre - The Institute for Cooperation in Space

Alfred Webre - Exopolitics

Earth Day: Encyclopedia - Cognition

The term cognition (Latin, cogito: to think) is used in several different loosely related ways. In psychology it is used to refer to the mental processes of an individual, with particular relation to a view that argues that the mind has internal mental states (such as beliefs, desires and intentions) and can be understood in terms of information processing, especially when a lot of abstraction or concretization is involved, or processes such as involving knowledge, expertise or learning for example are at work. It is also used ...

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Cognition - Cognition in mainstream psychology

Cognition - Influence and influences

Cognition - Cognitive ontology

Cognition - Cognition as compression

Cognition - Cognition as a social process

Cognition - Cognition in a cultural context

Cognition - Example of emergent organization

Cognition - Summary

Cognition - Related fields

Earth Day: Encyclopedia - Holiday

The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. Based on the words holy and day -, holidays originally represented special religious days. The word has evolved in general usage to mean any special day. In most of the English-speaking world a holiday is also a period spent away from home or business in travel or recreation (e.g. "I'm going on holiday to Mallorca next week"), the North American equivalent being "vacation". However, some Canadians (especially those of English or Irish decent) will use both the terms vacation and holiday interchangeably when referr ...

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Holiday - Public holidays

Holiday - Consecutive holidays

Holiday - Religious holidays

Holiday - Buddhist holidays

Holiday - Celtic Norse and Neopagan holidays

Holiday - Christian holidays

Holiday - Hindu holidays

Holiday - Islamic holidays

Holiday - Jewish holidays

Holiday - Bahá'í holidays

Holiday - The Northern Hemisphere winter holiday season

Holiday - Holidays traditionally in the winter holiday season

Holiday - Winter holiday greetings

Holiday - National holidays

Holiday - International holidays secular

Holiday - Other secular holidays

Holiday - Unofficial holidays

Holiday - No holidays?

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Earth Day: Encyclopedia - Vandana Shiva

Vandana Shiva (born November 5, 1952) is a physicist, philosopher, ecofeminist, environmental activist and writer. Vandana was born in Dehra Dun, Uttaranchal State, which was formerly a part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. She participated in the Chipko movement during the 1970s. The movement, whose main participants were women, adopted the tactic of hugging trees to prevent their felling. In 1982, she founded the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology. Initiatives of this foundation are the organic farmi ...

Earth Day: Encyclopedia - Apollo 8

Apollo 8 was the second manned mission of the Apollo space program, in which Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders became the first humans to leave Earth orbit and to orbit around the Moon. It was also the first manned launch of the Saturn V rocket. NASA prepared for the mission in only four months. The hardware involved had only been used a few times—the Saturn V had launched only twice before, and the Apollo spacecraft had only just finished its first manned m ...

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Apollo 8 - Planning

Apollo 8 - The Saturn V

Apollo 8 - The mission

Apollo 8 - Launch and trans-lunar injection

Apollo 8 - Coasting to the Moon

Apollo 8 - Lunar sphere of influence

Apollo 8 - Lunar orbit

Apollo 8 - Unplanned manual re-alignment

Apollo 8 - Cruise back to Earth and re-entry

Apollo 8 - Historical importance

Apollo 8 - Crew

Apollo 8 - Backup crew

Apollo 8 - Support crew

Apollo 8 - Mission parameters

Apollo 8 - Earth parking orbit

Apollo 8 - Lunar orbit

Apollo 8 - Translunar injection burn

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Earth Day: Encyclopedia II - List of environmental organizations - Government Organizations

The governments of all developed countries today have government departments or agencies devoted to monitoring and protecting the environment: List of environmental organizations - Canada. Environment Canada List of environmental organizations - New Zealand. Department of Conservation Ministry for the Environment Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment List of environmental organizations - United Kingdom. English Heritage< ...

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