Ecological Awareness
Who, What & Why
EarthRise, the most influential environmental image ever, encouraged people to take part in the modern environmental movement. EarthRise became an impetus, the catalyst for EcoActivism; Earth is now Our Blue Orb. We must promise to protect and defend our natural resources and ecosystems.
We cannot ignore Earth’s environmental crisis. We look to nature for answers to insure sustainability. We must cherish, protect and preserve our natural resources to prolong the sustainability of Earth and improve the environment for all of Earth's creatures.
We love the Earth, we plan to stay. Not all of us are billionaires ready to rocket off to Mars.
04.22.1970
The First Earth Day
Environmental Awareness
Understanding the Importance of Earth’s Sustainability
04.29.2025
Earth Action Day – Our Power, Our Planet
Rachel Carson
Marine Biologist Conservationist Ecologist EcoActivist
Carson’s Sea Trilogy won the hearts of American conservationists. Under the Sea (1941), The Sea Around Us (1951) and The Edge of the Sea (1955) established this award winning best selling author’s credentials and gave her the courage to research and write one of the most influential ecological books of all times, Silent Spring (1962). All people supporting environmental awareness and sustainability must read these books and investigate the impact this woman continues to have on the global environmental movement and Earth.
President John F. Kennedy’s ecological record was driven by his burgeoning environmental advocacy. In 1959 he cosponsored the Cape Cod National Seashore Bill. Then, running for president in 1960, Kennedy urged voters to save seashores as wildlife refuges and recreational areas. JFK was an enthusiastic reader of Rachel Carson's Sea Trilogy and created the Buck Island Reef National Monument to protect sea corals in 1961. In 1962 the president cited the importance of "Miss Carson's book Silent Spring," and appointed a Science Advisory Committee to review the DDT issue. Their 1963 report mushroomed into proposed federal recommendations for the use and regulations of pesticides. It was 1972 when DDT was finally banned. The passage of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 also reflected the momentum and support of popular and legislative environmental activism that reached a crescendo after the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970. On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring the Audubon Magazine printed an article entitled “Rachel Carson and JFK, an Environmental Tag Team." This surge of environmental awareness resulted in the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the passage of other critical environmental legislation like the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Endangered Species Act.
