Science:Nature
Earth Day is just around the corner, so for this episode I decided to mix things up a little and talk about the history of Earth Day and how it came to be one of the most celebrated and observed secular holidays! We'll go into the environmental disasters as well as work by conservationists like Rachel Carson that brought environmental issues into the public eye that made the first Earth Day a huge success, and kickstarted a decade of conservation work.
Sources:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cuyahoga-river-caught-fire-least-dozen-times-no-one-cared-until-1969-180972444/
https://www.earthday.org/history/
https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/earth-day
https://www.epa.gov/earthday
https://www.epa.gov/archive/epa/aboutepa/earth-day-70-what-it-meant.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Spring
https://michiganintheworld.history.lsa.umich.edu/environmentalism/exhibits/show/main_exhibit/origins/-environmental-crisis--in-the-
https://www.epa.gov/ingredients-used-pesticide-products/ddt-brief-history-and-status
https://www.nps.gov/places/000/bald-eagle.htm
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