[GPSCC-chat] Bay Area influence on Earth Day.

[Wes Rolley]

I recently became aware of just how much the Bay Area influenced the 1st 
Earth Day.

One of the founders and the senatorial co-chair of the Earth Day 
Movement, Gaylord Nelson, while a Senator from Wisconsin, was a graduate 
of San Jose State before attending Univ. of Wisconsin Law School.

The other co-chair(House of Representatives)  was Pete McCloskey, 
Congressman from Santa Clara / San Mateo counties, Graduate Stanford U 
(1959) and Stanford Univ Law School (1953).

Denis Hayes, the coordinator for the First Earth Day and the founder of 
the Earth Day Network was hired into this job directly out of Stanford U 
where he had been Student Body President.

A humanities professor at San Jose State, John Sperling, led his 
students in burying a volkswagen as an example of how we should lower 
CO2 emissions.  He later (1976)  resigned from San Jose State and 
founded the Univ. of Phoenix.

Since then, many other leaders have come from the bay area, most notably 
the late Stephen Schneider of Stanford Univ.

Our problem is to ensure that this leadership continues.

-- 
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, 
then you are wasting your time on this Earth" - /Roberto Clemente/
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