Editorial: Why celebrating Earth Day’s 56th year as a national movement remains so vital

Editorial: Why celebrating Earth Day’s 56th year as a national movement remains so vital

What does Earth Day mean to you? If your answer is ambivalent, it may be because you’ve never known why it was founded, or perhaps you’ve lost touch with the initial concerns that drew 20 million Americans into the streets to protest on April 22, 1970. That’s understandable. That’s back to an era where computers had yet to replace manual typewriters, when phones were mostly black and attached to a wall via a curly cord and cell phones were still…