Celebrate Earth Day 2022 with a week of NOCCCD events dedicated to learning about our environment and how to take action for change.
About Earth Day
(Source: https://www.earthday.org/history/)
Every year on April 22, Earth Day marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
In the decades leading up to the first Earth Day, Americans were consuming vast amounts of leaded gas through massive and inefficient automobiles. Industry belched out smoke and sludge with little fear of the consequences from either the law or bad press. Air pollution was commonly accepted as the smell of prosperity. Until this point, mainstream America remained largely oblivious to environmental concerns and how a polluted environment threatens human health.
However, the stage was set for change with the publication of Rachel Carson's New York Times bestseller Silent Spring in 1962. The book represented a watershed moment, selling more than 500,000 copies in 24 countries as it raised public awareness and concern for living organisms, the environment and the inextricable links between pollution and public health.
NOCCCD Earth Day Events
Cypress College
Date | Event | Description | Location |
April 18, 2022 5-6:15 p.m. Zoom |
Ecology, the Microbiome, and Mental Health | Virtual panel discussion | Zoom ID: 975 9300 4261 | Passcode: earthweek |
April 19, 2022 12-1 p.m. Zoom |
Summer Harvest Workshop | Student panel hosted by the Integrative Wellness Club | Zoom ID: 975 9300 4261 | Passcode: earthweek |
April 21, 2022 5:30 p.m. Gateway Plaza |
Outdoor Screening of "The Biggest Little Farm" | Starting at 5:30 p.m., Associated Students will provide grilled plant-based burgers and kombucha will be provided by Fermentation Farms. The film will screen at 6:30 p.m., followed by a brief Q&A. *Free Cypress College blanket to the first 100 attendees. |
Gateway Plaza |
Fullerton College
Date | Event | Description | Location |
April 20, 2022 11:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Zoom |
Earth Day Symposium | The internationally celebrated day of environmental activism known as Earth Day will take place at Fullerton College with the annual Earth Day Symposium on April 20. This year's theme focuses attention on fossil fuel divestment for climate action and will feature a keynote session with Energy Analyst and Investigative Journalist Antonia Juhasz, and Director for the Institute for Energy Economics Tom Sanzillo, as well as panelists from across California community colleges. | Zoom - CLICK HERE |