Earth Day 2023. Earth Day is the name given to the day on which the environment and the protection of planet Earth are celebrated. The occasion is celebrated every year, one month and one day after the spring equinox: 22 April.
The official Earth Day website offers, in addition to a series of live events that will run throughout the week:
https://www.earthday.org/earth-week-live-2023/
also an interesting series of quizzes to test our knowledge of environmental issues and the problems affecting the planet:
https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-quizzes/
It is a good opportunity to take a few of them. Perhaps with the family, together with our children or our loved ones.
How did the event come about?
Earth Day was created with the aim of raising public awareness of environmental protection and the safeguarding of our planet. The first edition was held in the United States on 22 April 1970, thanks to the initiative of a young American senator named Gaylord Nelson.
The choice of the day was not accidental: 22 April was already celebrated as ‘Arbor Day’ in Nebraska and as ‘Clean-up Day’ by many American environmental organisations. April was a perfect time to promote this ecological campaign because it coincided with the end of university classes.
Nelson had decided to launch this project after witnessing the destruction caused by the huge oil platform involved in the Santa Barbara disaster in California, owned by Union Oil.
