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I recently became aware of just how much the Bay Area influenced the
1st Earth Day. <br>
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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. <br>
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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).<br>
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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. <br>
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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. <br>
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Since then, many other leaders have come from the bay area, most
notably the late Stephen Schneider of Stanford Univ. <br>
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Our problem is to ensure that this leadership continues. <br>
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<div class="moz-signature">-- <br>
"Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you
don't, then you are wasting your time on this Earth"
- <i>Roberto Clemente</i></div>
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