Earth Week 2004

The first Earth Day was April 22^nd, 1970. This day if often thought of as the birth of the environmental movement. On that day, 20 million Americans demonstrated against the deterioration the environment. Earth Day 1970 achieved national unity, gaining support from Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, city slickers and farmers. The day led to many environmental achievements of the 1970s such as establishing the Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Water Act.

Letter to the college from President Thomforde about the meaning of Earth Day, April 22, 2004

Articles from the Manitou Messenger about Earth Week 2004

Schedule of events from Earth Week 2004:

        Lunch/dinner all week long
        Letter writing: Urge EPA Administrator to Reduce Mercury Pollution!

    Monday
        3:00pm Buckthorn Pull (what is buckthorn?)
           4:00pm Biology seminar: Restoring the Imperiled Native Mussel Fauna of the Mississippi River Below St. Anthony
                                                                 Falls. Given by Mike Davis, Malacologist, Minnesota DNR

     Tuesday
        11:10am Chapel: "Caring for Creation" by Campus Ecology Students

     Wednesday
        10:00am Chapel talk: "Religious Roots of Earth Day" James Farrell, professor of history
        3:00 & 4:00 St. Olaf Natural Lands tours
        8:00pm Environmental Coalition meeting (First-timers welcome!)

     Thursday
        11:20am "The Nature of St. Olaf"
                         A scenic (and not-so-scenic) photographic introduction to the nature of our lives—both the nature of Manitou
   Heights, with its Midwestern landscape, and the nature that moves on and off campus every day in trucks, cars,
   pipes, and wires.
        Community Time, Small Dances, performed by the dance department.
                        These are improvisational dances that are influenced by (1) the environment that they occur in and (2) the
interactions that we, as moving beings, have with it.
        3:30pm "The State of The Campus"
                  The first annual report of St. Olaf’s Sustainability Task Force on the state of campus ecology. A discussion of a
draft of “Environmental Principles,” and a report on resource flows like food and water and energy and garbage.
        8:00pm Free Range Pickin' concert

     Friday
        2:00pm Tree Planting

     Saturday
        12:00pm Campus Clean Up