Looking back to the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970
Memories as a Generation Green looked homeward, and forward, as Planet Citizens …
When, for the first time, we saw ourselves as a ‘Whole Earth’ planet
and we created ‘teach-ins’ around the world to tell the story
of “Earthrise”
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We’re All Planet Citizens
Seeing Earth in Space… Here’s How It Changed Us
Earthrise and Whole Earth images from 1968-69
Beginnings of a modern environmental movement
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Apollo 8, launched on Dec 21, 1968. History was made. Humanity’s picture of our place in the universe changed. Life on Earth changed as a result.
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Cognitive awareness, planetary awareness changed. Environmental awareness changed forever.
Apollo 8 was the first human mission to deep space, deep enough to see the Whole Earth and share images of what they saw. The images were taken “serendipity”, they were not planned as part of the mission.
It was a magic, monumental event — and the images forever changed humanity’s perspective of ourselves and our home planet.
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