To the untrained eye, the crowd of twenty million Americans who collectively celebrated the first Earth Day in 1970 looked like a swarm of bell bottoms and long hair. Forty years later, on the day that reminds us all to appreciate the environment by advocating for earth-friendly policies on all levels, 100,000 bald guys are having their own celebration. Buddhist monks are gathering in Thailand to chant and meditate for a cleaner and more peaceful world in honor of Earth Day. And they aren’t the only ones who are making environmental action a global trend.

As you read this, swimmers in Monaco are doing laps in the Mediterranean Sea with green balloons attached to their wet suits; a guerrilla army of gardeners in Amsterdam is planting flowers in every ugly plot of land and empty unused mailbox it can find; and school children are volunteering to clean up river banks in industrial communities throughout the Phillipines. It’s a beautiful day. Go out and enjoy it with the rest of the planet.

Earth Day 1970

Here’s some news about acts of environmentalism taking place today:

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Earth Day: The Simple, Local Stuff

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