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Earth Day | April 22, 2020
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Greetings,
NCR launched EarthBeat [[link removed]]
last fall to tell the stories of faith and climate change. We have multiple reports
and viewpoints to share today. Check out all of our Earth Day coverage here [[link removed]].
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Hymns, teach-ins and a horse ride to school: Catholic stories of the first Earth
Day [[link removed]]
An estimated 20 million Americans took part in the first Earth Day in 1970. Scattered
among them were many Catholics and people of faith, and EarthBeat hears some of
their stories, 50 years later. Read more [[link removed]]
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An Earth Day activist looks back: How far have we come? [[link removed]]
Commentary: Thirty years ago, an impatient younger me thought it would take no more
than 5 to 10 years to get people to "wake up." With the hindsight of these decades,
I weep for the lost opportunities and the destruction already baked into the system.
Read more [[link removed]]
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Earth Day 50 years on: It's all about the questions [[link removed]]
Commentary: How can we celebrate Earth Day in the midst of all this? How can any
of us carry on like normal? We don't have to. In fact, we shouldn't be trying to
carry on like normal. Not now. Not later. Not ever. Read more [[link removed]]
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14 Earth Day events you can join from your screen [[link removed]]
How can I participate in Earth Day 2020? Read more [[link removed]]
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Sincerely,
Tom Fox
CEO/President
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