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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

2014 Earth Day April 22,2014

The 1st Earth Day in 1970  planned in just eight months, events across the U.S. drew 20 million supporters, and thousands of students and local communities.



Wisconsin (USA)Senator Gaylord Nelson is considered the founder of Earth Day


Senator Nelson, an environmental activist, took a leading role in organizing the celebration, hoping to demonstrate popular political support for an environmental agenda.Nelson had conceived the idea for Earth Day following a trip he took to Santa Barbara right after the horrific oil spill off the coast in 1969.















Earth Day 20 and Earth Day 1990

Mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries and lifting the status of environmental issues onto the world stage, Earth Day activities in 1990 gave a huge boost to recycling efforts worldwide and helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro


Earth Day 2000

 This was the first year that Earth Day used the Internet as its principal organizing tool, and it proved invaluable domestically and internationally.The event ultimately enlisted more than 5,000 environmental groups outside the United States, reaching hundreds of millions of people in a record 183 countries.


Earth Day Flag

    
Earth Day and Google Doodle

To commemorate Earth Day 2014 Google has posted a 6-in-1 animated doodle on its home page with six representatives from the animal kingdom - Rufous Hummingbird, veiled chameleon, dung beetle, Japanese macaque, moon jellyfish and puffer fish
 


The 2013 Earth Day doodle is the 13th Earth Day doodle that Google has posted on its home page since 2001 and is the third animated Earth Day Google doodle


To mark the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day in 2012, Google posted a flower-themed doodle on its home page. It featured an animated image of blooming flowers in purple, red and yellow colours that spelt Google


Google went interactive for it's 11th Earth Day 2011doodle that had in it ticklish pandas, frolicking penguins, a growling lion, a cascading waterfall, waterfall climbing fish, a fish devouring bear, birds, butterflies, a koala and a jumping frog.


2010 was the 40th anniversary of the Earth Day 2010 and the search engine giant transformed its logo into an illustration of a forest with sunlight filtering through the leaves creating an impression of the Google logo


In 2009 Earth Day Google went partially underwater with its Earth Day doodle to highlight the rich diversity of life in the water


The Google logo appeared as a natural rock formation with a stream running through it for the 2008 Earth Day. 


The 2007 Google Earth Day doodle had the Google logo in the form of an iceberg to highlight the melting of the polar ice caps


In 2006 Earth Day the Google logo went green for Earth Day with Solar and Wind Energy


The 2005 Earth Day edition of Google's Earth Day doodle has more members from the animal kingdom, including a squirrel and a bird family.


A happy fish with mountains in the background was the theme for Google's 2004 Earth Day doodle.


The 2003 Google Earth Day doodle had some beings from outer space. Two aliens gaze at the earth sitting atop the Google logo, quite like how lovebirds on earth look at the moon.


The 2002 Google Earth Day doodle did away with the two-hemispheres and replaced only one 'O' with an image of the earth but added some clouds for effect.


The first Google Earth Day 2001 doodle, back in April 22, 2001 was a simple. The 'O's in the Google logo were replaced by the western and the eastern hemisphere for the earth.

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