Earth Day, 2026 is coming up this Wednesday, April 22. In honor of that day, I’d like to revisit one of my earliest blog posts, written on April 19, 2008. It was a fun — and slightly embarrassing — stroll through memory lane:
Earth Day 1970 Remembered
Do you remember the first Earth Day? (It’s OK; the nice thing about blogs is that you can answer with some anonymity, so you don’t have to admit your age.)
It was April 22, 1970, and I was in the sixth grade. I remember being very excited about Earth Day. I was also quite the radical. I remember my friends and I considered taking bag loads of trash and dumping them on the lawn of the town hall. Why we would do that, I can’t recall. Whether we actually did it, I can’t recall. Probably blocked out that memory of our audacious civil resistance.
Of course, back in the early 1970s (the time of the first oil crisis) it seemed that everyone was much more concerned with the environment. It’s nice to see that Earth Day is still around, and that environmental concerns are addressed at the grass roots level at least once a year.
I know that there are more 70s radicals like me out there. It’s time for us to pass the torch onto our kids and get them more interested in helping protect our environment.
Perhaps I’ll head out on Wednesday and pick up some trash in the neighborhood. Just for old times’ sake.
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(posted 4/21/2026)
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