Test your knowledge of Earth Day Trivia.
BY: EMILY WEBER
Staff Writer
- Earth Day originated in the US but became widely recognized worldwide by 1990.
- Earth Day started in 1970.
- Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson was the founder of Earth Day after there was a huge oil spill in 1969.
- Earth Day is also known as International Mother Earth Day.
- On Earth Day in 2011, people planted 28 million trees in Afghanistan for a campaign called “Plant Trees Not Bombs.”
- There was a promise made in 2016 that the Earth Day Network would plant 7.8 billion trees by 2020.
- In 1979, Pope John II named St. Francis of Assisi as patron of ecology, calling the saint “an example of genuine and deep respect for the integrity of creation.”
- Approximately 1.9 billion trees are planted each year.
