{"id":5017,"date":"2020-04-20T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/?p=5017"},"modified":"2020-04-19T17:31:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T21:31:41","slug":"earth-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/earth-day-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/library.nd.edu\/directory\/employees\/rbohlman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rachel Bohlmann, <em>American History Librarian and Curator of North Americana<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/collections.library.nd.edu\/earth-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5023 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-DEC-Earth-Day-v2-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-DEC-Earth-Day-v2-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-DEC-Earth-Day-v2-1024x698.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-DEC-Earth-Day-v2-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-DEC-Earth-Day-v2-1536x1046.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-DEC-Earth-Day-v2-2048x1395.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In celebration of the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of Earth Day\u2014April 22, 2020\u2014Rare Books and Special Collections offers an online exhibition, <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.library.nd.edu\/earth-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Describing, Conserving, and Celebrating the Earth: Primary Sources from Hesburgh Libraries<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>It displays sources\u00a0about the earth in science, culture, public policy, and politics, from the 1750s to 2004. In keeping with the American origins of Earth Day in 1970 and the EPA, these sources are primarily from an American context.<\/p>\n<p>Each section holds a\u00a0primary source or group of sources that reflect different periods, kinds of materials (books, illustrations, posters, reports, etc.), and approaches to studying, appreciating, and preserving the earth. The library&#8217;s Rare Books and Special Collections resources are where some of these items come from; others\u00a0are government documents that are available in the open stacks of Hesburgh Library (when the library\u2019s print collection reopens).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabilitystudies.nd.edu\/resources\/take-10-for-the-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5025 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2020\/04\/Take-10-for-the-Planet-2020-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2020\/04\/Take-10-for-the-Planet-2020-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2020\/04\/Take-10-for-the-Planet-2020-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/files\/2020\/04\/Take-10-for-the-Planet-2020.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>We hope that this online resource will help faculty and students to <a href=\"https:\/\/sustainabilitystudies.nd.edu\/resources\/take-10-for-the-planet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Take 10 for the Planet<\/em><\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>A mid-eighteenth-century British naturalist&#8217;s illustrated description of wildlife and plant life in the American colonies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>The first issue of the <em>Sierra Club Bulletin<\/em>, a nature enthusiast&#8217;s magazine focused on the western United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>A late nineteenth-century botanist&#8217;s findings, published in an early scientific journal.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>A World War II poster by the United States Forest Service, urging people to preserve forests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>A mid-century warning about human damage to wildlife in the United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Examples of federal conservation before the advent of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): a conference report on pollution in the Lake Michigan watershed, and an international commission&#8217;s findings about pollution levels in boundary waters between Canada and the US.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>A compilation of environment-inspired poems, published a few years after the first Earth Day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>An Earth Day-inspired speech by actor and environmentalist Eddie Albert.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Two EPA publications: an early catalog of agency-sponsored training programs for professionals responsible for pollution control, and a 2004 brochure about the conservation of the Chesapeake Bay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rachel Bohlmann, American History Librarian and Curator of North Americana In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day\u2014April 22, 2020\u2014Rare Books and Special Collections offers an online exhibition, Describing, Conserving, and Celebrating the Earth: Primary Sources from Hesburgh Libraries. It displays sources\u00a0about the earth in science, culture, public policy, and politics, from the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/earth-day-2020\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Earth Day 2020<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1936,"featured_media":5021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75050,75055,12646,75052],"tags":[77938,77960,24,77967,77931],"class_list":["post-5017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibits","category-natural-science-natural-history-medicine","category-miscellaneous","category-us-history-culture","tag-book","tag-broadsides-prints-posters","tag-digital","tag-pamphlets","tag-printed-ephemera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5017"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5027,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5017\/revisions\/5027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/rbsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}