Title
Special Recognition - Proclamation Recognizing April 2025 as Earth Month
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager Recommendation:
Proclaim April 2025 as Earth Month.
Report
Issue:
Whether to proclaim April 2025 as Earth Month.
Staff Contact:
Dawn Carvalho, Executive Services Assistant, 360.753.8065
Presenter(s):
Dave Sederberg, Earthbound Productions
Background and Analysis:
The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, included an environmental teach-in that educated Americans about environmental and conservation issues.
20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to call for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized demonstrations and teach-ins against the deterioration of the environment.
Earth Day 1970 activated a bipartisan spirit that motivated the passing of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts. Many other groundbreaking environmental laws soon followed.
Earth Day had reached into its status as the largest secular observance in the world, celebrated by more than a billion people every year, and a day of action that changes human behavior and provokes policy changes.
Each year, the City of Olympia recognizes the entire month of April as Earth Month and urges others to do the same.
In Olympia, the Procession of the Species was created in 1995 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Earth Day. Local businesses, schools, environmental organizations and others have raised over 100 Earth flags in Olympia to unite those working in the interest of the planet, inspire participation, and build action through local activism and global environmental consciousness.
Options:
1. Recognize April 2025 as Earth Month.
2. Do not recognize April 2025 as Earth Month.
3. Recognize Earth Month 2025 at another time.
Attachments:
Proclamation