Environmental Education Could Not Wait Then, and Cannot Wait Now
4 min readApr 22, 2020
By 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…