Environmental Education Could Not Wait Then, and Cannot Wait Now

Carl Safina
4 min readApr 22, 2020

By Patricia Paladines

Photo: Patricia Paladines

The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 catalyzed the modern environmental education movement. A few months after that first official celebration of the Earth’s natural environment, the Congress of the United States passed The Environmental Education Act, which was signed into law by President Richard Nixon on October 30, 1970. Later…

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Carl Safina

Ecologist, author. Inaugural holder of Endowed Chair for Nature and Humanity, Stony Brook University. SafinaCenter.org, CarlSafina.org