Earth Day at 40...Earth Day in Michigan

Many people may not know that Earth Day has deep roots in Michigan...at the University of Michigan to be precise... in March of 1970...Students and teachers formed a group called Environmental Action for Survival(ENACT)...A number of ENACT’s leaders went on to influential careers in the field... including Doug Scott, a longtime executive at the Sierra Club who is now policy director at the Campaign for America’s Wilderness...David Allan, who became a professor and associate dean of U-M’s School of Natural Resources and Environment...and John Turner, who served as director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the first President Bush.


오늘은…지구의 날…우리가 살고있는 지구를 보호하는 의미에서…환경보존을 위한 여러가지 일을 하자는 취지로 제정한 날…오늘 하루 뿐만이 아닌…1년 365일…지구의 날의 취지를 살렸으면 하는 바램…