Photos: Festivals and clean-ups celebrate annual Earth Day
Dann Neff
Nature lovers across the Bay Area took part in trash clean-ups and outdoor festivals Saturday to commemorate Earth Day, the 54th annual global celebration of environmental stewardship.
At Cupertino’s Earth Day & Arbor Day Festival at Library Field Park, families enjoyed arts and crafts, rock climbing walls and a nature-themed mobile library. Meanwhile in Berkeley, volunteers with buckets and pick-up sticks clambered along the waterfront near the Shorebird Park Nature Center. They celebrated with a festival of their own later in the day with live music and free boat rides by the shoreline.
Gaylord Nelson, a former U.S. senator from Wisconsin, organized the first Earth Day in 1970 as a nationwide rally to raise awareness about environmental threats following a devastating oil spill in Santa Barbara. The demonstration helped spur the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency later that year. Today, Earth Day is celebrated by more than 140 countries around the world.
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