The founder of Earth Day, former Wisconsin Governor and Senator Gaylord Nelson, died Sunday at the age of 89. Nelson once said Earth Day was an attempt to get politicians to notice environmental ...

MILWAUKEE — Gaylord Nelson, the folksy Democratic senator from Wisconsin who helped start the modern environmental movement with the creation of Earth Day 35 years ago, died yesterday. He was 89.

April 22, 2010; Earth Day: Gaylord Nelson’s Vision; Russ Feingold’s Mission Earth Day: Gaylord Nelson’s Vision; Russ Feingold’s Mission. The current senator from Wisconsin renews his ...

But it was a senator from Wisconsin, Democrat Gaylord Nelson, who had the idea that would become Earth Day. Nelson had long been concerned about the environment when a massive offshore oil spill ...

Wisconsin Sen. Gaylord Nelson's "ah ha" moment became Earth Day. 25-year-old Stanford graduate student Denis Hayes was a galvanizing leader. 20 million people participated in the first Earth Day ...

On the eve of the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, U.S. Sen. Gaylord Nelson — my father — delivered a call to action that rings clear today: “Our goal is an environment of decency, quality ...

Gaylord Nelson and Earth Day Special | 37m 53s | Video has closed captioning. Bill Christofferson, Author, "The Man from Clear Lake," focuses on the life of Gaylord Nelson.

Forty-five years after Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day, Tia Nelson is caught between carrying on her father's legacy and hewing to the guidelines of her state government job.

Created by Sen. Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day was first observed on April 22, 1970, as a day to honor our Mother, the Earth, and as a mechanism to force the environmental issue onto the national agenda.

(EDITORS: BEGIN OPTIONAL TRIM) Earth Day didn't just happen. Nelson enlisted allies everywhere he could, and he even had to fend off an attack from the John Birch Society, which charged that Earth Day ...