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

[Spencer Graves]

typo correction:  McClosky graduated from Stanford in 1950 (not 1959), 
then Stanford Law School in 1953, as indicated.


On 4/25/2014 3:49 PM, Wes Rolley wrote:
> 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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