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== Semi-protected edit request on 1 April 2025 ==

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Adding a citation for the following passage:

As the millennium approached, Hayes agreed to spearhead another campaign, this time focusing on global warming and pushing for clean energy. The April 22 Earth Day in 2000 combined the big-picture feistiness of the first Earth Day with the international grassroots activism of Earth Day 1990. For 2000, Earth Day had the internet to help link activists around the world. By the time April 22 came around, 5,000 environmental groups worldwide were on board, reaching out to hundreds of millions of people in a record 184 countries. Events varied: A talking drum chain traveled from village to village in Gabon, Africa, for example, while hundreds of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., US

This text seems to come directly from EarthDay.org's history page: https://www.earthday.org/history/ [[User:NounFiction|NounFiction]] ([[User talk:NounFiction|talk]]) 00:41, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
:Thanks for flagging this.  This looks to be a potential copyright violation.  I've added a tag for it with a note for where the material may have came from.  I don't have time to investigate further right now, but hopefully someone else does. [[User:Meamemg|meamemg]] ([[User talk:Meamemg|talk]]) 21:00, 1 April 2025 (UTC)
:{{in progress}}: An editor is implementing the requested edit.<!-- Template:ESp --> Meameng is in process of reviewing it, but I'm not sure of the current status. [[User:Valorrr|Valorrr]] ([[User talk:Valorrr|talk]]) 03:36, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

== Semi-protected edit request on 6 June 2025 ==

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22 stands with the book title of catch 22. April is the 4th month of the year; the numerical 4 stands for spiritual Manifestation. Celebration of earth 🌎 day on 22nd April could have its essence lead to a catch 22 situation for the earth 🌎 in its spiritual manifestations. Why does 22nd April celebrates itself as earth day. June 5th world environment day would be a better choice for the ecological earth. --- ( dated 6.5.2025) Sri Aurobindo Society members. [[Special:Contributions/2409:4088:810D:F9EA:0:0:2929:70AC|2409:4088:810D:F9EA:0:0:2929:70AC]] ([[User talk:2409:4088:810D:F9EA:0:0:2929:70AC|talk]]) 10:13, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
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== Semi-protected edit request on 6 June 2025 (2) ==

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A further edit request to the last submitance on 5th June by the Sri Aurobindo Society members. 
6th June was the 🌎 Earth Day. It was a spiritual entry. Why was it shifted to 22nd April (a doomsday).Earthling's request is to look deeply into the matter and change the date to the requisite. 
Sri Aurobindo Society, India 🇮🇳. [[Special:Contributions/2409:4088:810D:F9EA:0:0:2929:70AC|2409:4088:810D:F9EA:0:0:2929:70AC]] ([[User talk:2409:4088:810D:F9EA:0:0:2929:70AC|talk]]) 10:22, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
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== Semi-protected edit request on 6 June 2025 (3) ==

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A third attachment to the earliers. 6th June is being celebrated as the world pest day. 6.6.24 (6.6.6) was to be the day for amen, the day of Good👍. It got transferred to the world pest day... World Good for the pests!!! The (7.7.7) of the Bible is being worked upon 🙏. Please do not hamper with the spirituality of Earth. 
Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, India 🇮🇳 [[Special:Contributions/2409:4088:810D:F9EA:0:0:2929:70AC|2409:4088:810D:F9EA:0:0:2929:70AC]] ([[User talk:2409:4088:810D:F9EA:0:0:2929:70AC|talk]]) 10:48, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
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== Is this worth adding? ==
In a May 10, 2024 oral history interview I conducted with desert foods ethnobotanist Martha Ames Burgess, Martha recalled the following: 

MAB:  Okay. I'm going to jump back because in 1970 there was the first Earth Day. But I wanted to take us back to ’68 fall of ’68 because following the class that I'd had, a field Natural History class with Steve Russell at Uof A, that fall of ’68 we had a meeting of a bunch of people, you know, innovative students, who felt that we needed some sort of celebration of the earth, a consciousness, celebration about earth and its processes and populations and so on. And so we met in Cave Creek, Arizona, in the Chiricahua Mountains, and to envision, and it was all of the students from Steve Russell's class and others, other interesting thinkers and ecologists and so on, naturalists. And I, as far as I can tell, that was the first planning, the first inklings. There may have been other groups elsewhere with the same idea, but I think it was the nascent plan for Earth Day, which didn't happen in ’69 it waited till ’70 before it really could materialize.
 
TM:  Who do you remember was at that meeting?

MAB:  Gosh. People like Rich Vogt and, oh golly. I am not remembering all the dignitaries. We weren’t dignitaries. We were just a bunch of students.

TM:  Okay. And was Steve Russell there, or was it just the students?

MAB:  Oh, gosh, you know, I think Steve might have been there. He's that kind of person.
 
TM: Okay. And was this like a camp-out sort of thing?

MAB: Yeah, how we were camping, I think South Camp in the Cave Creek,

TM: Okay.  In the Chiricahuas there in southwestern Arizona.

MAB: Southeastern.

TM:  Sorry, southeastern Thank you. Yeah, I’m turned around. Up here in Flagstaff everything's backwards, so that's okay, you're exactly right.

MAB: So back to 1970.

TM:  Okay, so, was the concept of Earth Day was, I'm going to stick with this for a minute, because I think this is important, especially if it's the foundational sprouting of Earth Day, the concept of the students was the need to celebrate the earth, get back to the earth. What was the thought?

MAB: To spread awareness of the understanding of earth’s processes. I’m mean there was such ignorance about the bigger picture, you know, like oceanic circulation, or weather circulation, climate circulation, I should say, and geological processes and ecological principles. And so we wanted to hold the mirror up somehow, to recognize and honor the earth in some significant way.

TM: And were you thinking about a day sometime, maybe next year, or the year after that, where we would recognize the earth?
MAB: I don't know how detailed it was at that point. 

TM: Okay.

MAB: We were just exploring possibilities and how to communicate with other people that needed to be a part of an earth wise movement.

That's all I have. You can listen to this interview here: https://grandcanyonazus.com/b.html

If you all think this is important enough, I'll work with Martha to boil this down to a sentence or two for your consideration. Please advise. Most cordially yours, Tom [[User:RRFWTommartin|RRFWTommartin]] ([[User talk:RRFWTommartin|talk]]) 01:12, 13 June 2025 (UTC)