What is Earth day?

Question

What is earth day, are you suppose to plant a tree or something?

Answer 1

It's a day set aside to honor Mother Earth. Planting a tree would be a good gesture. We are fast ruining our environment.

Answer 2

What and When Is Earth Day?
By John McConnell, Founder of Earth Day
"When I first conceived of Earth Day, a global holiday to celebrate the wonder of life on our planet, I thought long and hard about the day on which it should fall. It must be meaningful. One that might be accepted universally for all of humankind.

What could be more appropriate than the first moment of Spring, when day and night are equal around the world and hearts and minds can join together with thoughts of harmony and Earth's rejuvenation. Just as a single prayer can be siginificant, how much more so when hundreds, thousands, millions of people throughout the world join in peaceful thoughts and prayers to nurture neighbor and nature.

And so it came to pass we initiated the celebration of Earth Day on March 21, 1970. The first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the City of Saint Francis, patron saint of ecology. Designating the First Day of Spring, March 21, 1970 to be Earth Day, this day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a Proclamation signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations where it is observed each year. Earth Day was firmly established for all time on a sound basis as an annual event to deepen reverence and care for life on our planet."

Answer 3

Earth Day is a name used by two different observances held annually in the (northern) spring, both intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth's environment. Earth Day is in the public domain and open to all persons to shape. Some grassroots Earth Day organizers seek to move the date of the observance to the Summer Solstice, to take advantage of the warm temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere (where most people live) to create greater participation. [1][2]

"May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life."

Answer 4

No, it rather is purely the thank you to rejoice what the Earth has achieved for us and to maintain the ecosystem. It became created because of fact of a unhappy project the place it became a large international environmental project. Then, we discovered from our errors and Earth Day became created to help that.

Answer 5

I think is the Love Green Environment day for the earth protection and reduce pollutions????

Answer 6

Its the day that we appreciate the earth.

Answer 7

420! an excuse to smoke pot all day and call it a holiday! oh yeah earth day is also Hitler's birth and death date too.

Answer 8

bush-magic.20fr.com
(click on the ENVIRONMENT linked word)

But I like what the first guy(paul) said, as a simple answer.

So as to say, seriously check the link above.... peace

Answer 9

earth day should be 365 days a year .......we only have ONE earth and of course .we all know what man is doing to it............DON'T SCREW IT UP ANY ,MORE ...

Answer 10

this was organize about in 1970s..the first one..
...every April 22....
....to promote awareness of inviromental issues..like society,music,political topics...religion...and etc....