THEY CELEBRATED Earth Day out in Denver Monday. The mayor was on board, having announced two years ago that Earth Day in Denver is March 20. Last week, a camera crew from Los Angeles was in Denver to interview the founder of Earth Day, John McConnell. The video was to be shown Monday at a meeting of California environmentalists.
All this would seem to be at odds with what Madison and Wisconsin residents have long believed, that Earth Day is next month, April 22, and that it was founded by one of the state’s favorite sons, the late U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson, in 1970.
(Tom Sinclair of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, is quoted.)