print email comment close International Earth Day URL: http://www.earthsite.org Description: Website for this version of Earth Day, as celebrated on the spring equinox in March. (Earth Day is generally observed on April 22.) Features background of this day that was initiated "on March 21, 1970. The first Proclamation of Earth Day was by San Francisco, the City of Saint Francis, patron saint of ecology." Includes an Earth Day charter and guide for earth trustees by Earth Day founder John McConnell, and related material. Author: McConnell, John Extra Keywords vernal environment LII Database Information: Record 23515 created by Maria Brandt on 03/12/2007 Last modification on 04/16/2009 Published: 03/14/2007   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23515