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Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on 

April 22, on which day events worldwide 

are held to demonstrate support for 

environmental protection. It was first 

celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated 

globally by the Earth Day Network,[1] and 

celebrated in more than 192 countries each 

year.[2]

Earth Day 1970

    The first Earth Day family had participants 

and celebrants in two thousand colleges and 

universities, roughly ten thousand primary and 

secondary schools, and hundreds of communities 

across the United States. More importantly, it 

"brought 20 million Americans out into the 

spring sunshine for peaceful demonstrations in 

favor of environmental reform."[6] It now is 

observed in 192 countries, and coordinated by the 

nonprofit Earth Day Network, chaired by the 

first Earth Day 1970 organizer Denis Hayes, 

according to whom Earth Day is now "the 

largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated 

by more than a billion people every year."[7] 

Environmental groups have sought to make Earth 

Day into a day of action which changes human 

behavior and provokes policy changes.[8]

Earth Day 1990

The official logo of the Mount Everest Earth 

Day 20 International Peace Climb

Mobilizing 200 million people in 141 

countries and lifting the status of 

environmental issues onto the world stage, 

Earth Day activities in 1990 gave a huge boost 

to recycling efforts worldwide and helped 

pave the way for the 1992 United Nations 

Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Unlike the 

first Earth Day in 1970, this 20th Anniversary 

was waged with stronger marketing tools, 

greater access to television and radio, and 

multimillion-dollar budgets.[11]

Earth Day 2000

Earth Day 2000 combined the ambitious spirit 

of the first Earth Day with the international 

grassroots activism of Earth Day 1990. This 

was the first year that Earth Day used the 

Internet as its principal organizing tool, and 

it proved invaluable nationally and 

internationally. Kelly Evans, a professional 

political organizer, served as executive 

director of the 2000 campaign. The event 

ultimately enlisted more than 5,000 

environmental groups outside the United States, 

reaching hundreds of millions of people in a 

record 183 countries.[15] Leonardo DiCaprio 

was the official host for the event,[15] and 

about 400,000 participants stood in the cold 

rain during the course of the day.

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