Leaders talk about Earth Day after 40 years
Staff writer Peter Fimrite asked leading environmentalists to discuss the significance of Earth Day. Here are some excerpts.
April 18, 2010
40 years after first Earth Day, fight goes on
The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, was, by all accounts, the beginning of a powerful grassroots movement, helped immeasurably by a famous TV commercial that premiered on Earth Day 1971 of an Indian shedding a tear as he saw pollution all around him.