April 2011
114 posts
WatchThe idea came to Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California.
At the time, Americans were slurping leaded gas through massive V8 sedans. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of legal consequences or bad press. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of...
Earth Day: Environmental education has failed. But...
By Charles Saylan and Daniel T. Blumstein / April 22, 2011 From The Christian Science Monitor
We’ve both been participating in Earth Day events since they began back in 1970. We’ve manned booths that teach people about water pollution, we’ve organized environmental clean ups in the Santa Monica Bay and judged Earth Day posters at schools in Pakistan. But regardless of what we have done or where...
If you don't like the onlineathens home page, try... →
With a little redesign from the talented Zach Hawkins, it’s nice and clean, with all your headlines right here. This isn’t the actual homepage, but the headlines roundup, and if you like it better, you can bookmark it instead. Our paper isn’t given much control over the homepage itself, but it’s nice our online guys can at least tweak this.
Keepin’ the dream alive.
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"And I thought, since I'm really tired of bios for... →
I have a love-hate thing for Klosterman, but this I love.
