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Hour Two: Earth Day 1999
We'll start off the hour with a look at the fires that have been burning in parts of Florida this week. The fires, aided by unusually dry weather, have burned over a hundred thousand acres of land - including land in the Florida Everglades. We'll talk about the fires and their effects on the environment - and on efforts to restore Everglades land. Plus... | Yesterday (April 22nd) marked the 29th anniversary of Earth Day. First proposed in 1970 by Denis Hayes and Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin as a day for a national teach-in about the environment, Earth Day has grown into an annual worldwide observance. The first Earth Day, organizers say, was observed by some twenty million people in the U.S. In 1990, the number of Earth Day celebrators numbered some 200 million worldwide. | 
(img courtesy of NASA) | But has the fervor of the environmental movement that stood behind the first Earth Day gone cold? On this hour of Science Friday, we'll take a look at the environmental movement - and ask whether or not there's such a thing as "The Environmental Movement" anymore.
Listeners Respond
Guests:
Bob Panko
Fire and Aviation Management Officer
Everglades National Park, Florida
Phil Shabecoff
Former Environment Reporter, New York Times
Former Publisher, Greenwire
Author, "New Name for Peace" (University Press of New England)
Boston, Massachusetts
Mark Hertsgaard
Author, "Earth Odyssey" (Broadway Books)
Baltimore, Maryland
Books/Articles Discussed:
Related Links:
Greenpeace
World Wildlife Fund
Natural Resources Defense Council
The Nature Conservancy
Environmental Defense Fund
Sierra Club
Audubon Society
UN Division for Sustainable
Development
CREST - Center for Renewable Energy
and Sustainable Technology
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This segment produced by:
Annette Heist
Web producer:
Charles Bergquist
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