Adam Rome

Adam Rome is the author of The Genius of Earth Day: How a 1970 Teach-In Unexpectedly Made the First Green Generation and a professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University at Buffalo.

The homemade flag carried by Lanphier High School students during their march to the Illinois State Capitol on the first Earth Day.

Planet Positive

This Homemade Flag From the '70s Signals the Beginning of the Environmental Movement

The green-and-white banner from an Illinois high school recalls the first Earth Day 50 years ago

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