Happy Earth Day  earth day 01  KENTUCKY (4/22/13) – Each year
April 22 marks the anniversary of the environmental movement of
1970. Earth Day is now globally celebrated with events that
focus on “Being Green.”  At the height of the hippie and flower-
child culture, the 1970s imprinted the death of Jimi Hendrix,
the last Beatles album, the raging war of Vietnam and the
establishment of Earth Day. Inspired by the anti-war movement
and witnessing the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbra,
California, Founder of Earth Day, Senator Gaylord Nelson
realized that if he was somehow able to infuse the energy and
the public’s awareness about water and air pollution, it would
help enforce environmental protection onto the national
political agenda.  earth day 02By the early 1960s, Americans
were slowing becoming aware of the effects pollution was having
on the environment. In Rachel Carson’s 1962 bestseller “Silent
Spring,” raised the concern of the dangerous effects pesticides
were having on our countryside across the U