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Celebrating Earth Day around the world April 22 marks Earth Day, the environmentalist celebration founded in the 1970s.
April 22, 2012
A May apple grows in Moreland Hills, Ohio. The Earth Day Network has collected about 1 billion “Acts of Green” — individual pledges to take action to help the environment.
Amy Sancetta
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AP
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April 22, 2012
On a cold, wet Earth Day on the Mall, visitors walk past an artistic recycling container dubbed "Atlas Recycled," made by sculptor Tom Tsuchiya from actual atlas map pages.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
April 22, 2012
A technician climbs an electronics tower during the annual Earth Day celebration on the Mall on a cold and wet Sunday in the District. The mall celebration included scheduled performances by Cheap Trick, Dave Mason and others. D.C. officials and members of Congress also were scheduled to speak.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
April 22, 2012
Duran Visek, foreground, and Richie Arthur of the band Kicking Daisies perform during the annual Earth Day celebration on the Mall on Sunday.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
April 22, 2012
Rachael James keeps her 12-month-old son Henry warm and dry beneath an umbrella during the annual Earth Day celebration on the Mall. The event included interactive exhibits, renewable energy demonstrations and educational workshops.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
April 22, 2012
Talia Mosconi, director of education at Tudor Place Historic House and Garden in the District, describes to children the trees and plants they can see out of the window of the house during an Earth Day event on Sunday.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
April 22, 2012
Ridhi Harmani, 7, of Alexandria, concentrates as she paints a clay flowerpot at Tudor Place Historic House and Garden during its annual Earth Day events on Sunday.
Bill O'Leary
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The Washington Post
April 22, 2012
Participants carry a traditional carp-shaped windsock called Koinobori at a parade demanding a stop to all nuclear power plants in Japan as part of an event for Earth Day in Tokyo. Japan is set to have no nuclear power within weeks for the first time in more than 40 years after last year's crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which crushed public trust in nuclear power and prevented the restart of reactors shut for regular maintenance checks. The carp banners are flown in Japan from April to early May to wish for the good health of children.
Kim Kyung-Hoon
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Reuters
April 22, 2012
A Taiwanese child dressed as a local god looks out through the mouth of a mask while waiting to perform at the Earth Day celebrations in Taipei, Taiwan.
Chiang Ying-ying
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AP
April 22, 2012
Workers are silhouetted as they replace broken LED lights on a huge bronze globe in front of a mall in Manila. At night, the structure will turn into an LED globe, a video display with resolution and full graphics made possible by 26,300 of the energy-efficient lights.
Noel Celis
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AFP/Getty Images
April 22, 2012
A boatman sleeps in his boat anchored in the polluted waters of the Buriganga River in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Pavel Rahman
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AP
April 22, 2012
An Indian boy takes a dip in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi.
Mustafa Quraishi
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AP
April 21, 2012
Volunteers in the Philippines clean up trash along the coast of Freedom Island during a commemorative event a day before Earth Day.
Cheryl Ravelo
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Reuters
April 21, 2012
A student on a bus in Jammu, India, displays a placard at a rally to mark Earth Day.
Channi Anand
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AP
April 21, 2012
Matthew Beine of West Bend, Wis., lifts a discarded computer monitor from the bed of a pickup truck. The monitor and other equipment were collected for recycling as part of an event to benefit Habitat for Humanity.
John Ehlke
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AP
April 21, 2012
Flamingos feed at the mud flats in Sewri area of Mumbai.
Rajanish Kakade
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AP
April 20, 2012
A trash art entry titled "Smoky" by Lee Schaber that uses cardboard, glass bottles, aluminum, plastic bottles and milk cartons is displayed during Earth Day celebrations at Circle Park on the University of Tennessee campus in Knoxville.
Amy Smotherman Burgess
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Knoxville News Sentinel
April 20, 2012
Jacob Lutsky, 11, a sixth-grader at Faith Middle School in Fort Benning, Ga., holds a snake under the watch of Mark Thornton, far right, with the Fort Benning Conservation Branch at its annual Earth Day event.
Joe Paull
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Ledger-Enquirer via AP
April 20, 2012
Peasant women wash their clothes in the polluted Waswali River near Matagalpa, Nicaragua.
Oswaldo Rivas
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Reuters
April 20, 2012
Sandra Seifert, a former Miss Earth Philippines and an environmentalist and vegetarian, used body paint to promote her cause during a photo shoot sponsored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Makati city, east of Manila.
Bullit Marquez
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AP
April 19, 2012
Volunteers help visitors to Wichita's Sedgwick County Zoo sign their names on inflatable globes during "Boeing Wichita Presents: Earth Day Kansas," an environmental fair held at the zoo.
Jaime Green
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AP
April 19, 2012
Eva Weiss, 6, left, Henry Brown and Eva's brother, Murphy Weiss, 3 1/2, react as a contraption called the "Recycle Cycle" squirts water at them during Sprint's Earth Day celebration at its Overland Park corporate campus outside Kansas City. The event featured eco-friendly exhibitors, entertainment and prizes.
Jill Toyoshiba
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AP
April 19, 2012
Betty Ladwig talks with fifth-graders during the "Boeing Wichita Presents: Earth Day Kansas" event, which offered hands-on activities for children.
Jaime Green
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AP
April 19, 2012
University of Memphis freshman Alexander Williams, left, 18, and senior Lauren Hancock, 27, took a tai chi lesson during an Earth Day event on their campus.
Mike Brown
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AP
April 19, 2012
Guillermo Aguilar of the Gorgas Science Foundation talks with student Alejandra Carlos during the University of Texas at Brownsville's Earth Day activities.
Brad Dohertry
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AP
April 19, 2012
A University of Texas at Brownsville student participates in Earth Day activities.
Brad Doherty
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AP
April 18, 2012
Volunteers participate in the reforestation of the Rosy Walter Zoo, on El Picacho hill north of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Under the slogan "Your Actions Transform the Planet," young people throughout Central America are carrying out environmental activities to mark Earth Day.
Orlando Sierra
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AFP/Getty Images
April 18, 2012
Volunteers planted a tree at the Rosy Walter Zoo.
Orlando Sierra
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April 18, 2012
A volunteer with young trees to be planted at the Rosy Walter Zoo.
Orlando Sierra
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April 18, 2012
At the Kitsap Water Festival in Washington state, volunteer Joyce Martin shows a surprised Connor Toepfer, 9, his completed fish painting art. The annual festival helps teach children about the importance of water as a resource.
Larry Steagall
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AP
April 17, 2012
U.S. Navy Petty Officer Nathan Diggs, a diver based at Naval Base Kitsap Keyport, looks out over his tank as children gather around at the Kitsap Water Festival. He was part of a Navy demonstration of divers playing tic-tac-toe with the festival-goers.
Larry Steagall
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AP
April 18, 2012
Pierceson Krieg, 9, clowns around in the mouth of a salmon sculpture at the Kitsap Water Festival. The art was shown in an exhibit on migrating salmon in the Olympic Peninsula.
Larry Steagall
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AP
April 14, 2012
In this photo provided by the California State Parks Foundation, Earth Day volunteers Ashley Cookerly and her brother, Richard, both of San Francisco, weed the community garden at Candlestick Point State Recreation Area. Hundreds of volunteers gathered to help restore the area in celebration of Earth Day.
Darryl Bush
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AP
April 14, 2012
Volunteer Raymond Dimaano of Alameda, Calif., picks up trash at the Martin Luther King Jr. Regional Shoreline, a protected wetland area of the Oakland Estuary.
Darryl Bush
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AP
April 5, 2012
Dressed as "Recycle Ben," county official Vanessa Lynchard hits the streets of Hernando, Miss., to promote Earth Day festivities.
Stan Carroll
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AP
April 1, 2012
Bearing their country's flag, Moroccans march in Casablanca during an Earth Day observance there.
Abdelhak Senna
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AFP/Getty Images
March 31, 2012
People light candles during an Earth Day event in Bucharest, Romania.
Vadim Ghirda
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AP
March 31, 2012
Thousands of candles are laid out to depict the earth in a display at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate during Earth Hour, in which people are asked to turn off electric lights for 60 minutes to bring awareness to the issue of climate change.
Markus Schreiber
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AP
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