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40th Anniversary of Earth Day

The Earth Day Network sponsored a 40th Anniversary of Earth Day program Thursday afternoon on the national mall.

Members of Congress, including Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Dave White, chief of the Natural Resource Conservation Service for the USDA and actress Kristin Bauer of HBO’s True Blood all came out to support various Earth Day-related causes.

Carper spoke on clean energy and encouraged children listening to recycle. Bauer came out to support the International Fund for Animal Welfare, an organization she’s been working with for over a year. Bauer works to save whales, and against ivory trade.

“Over 400,000 whales have been killed and only 300 are left,” Bauer said.

Earth Day began in 1970 as a way to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment.

–report and photographs by Kate Oczypok

Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.)

Associate Director of the Earth Sciences Division for NASA Jack Kay

Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.) with members of Earth’s Natural Force Kids’ Jam, a group of multi-cultural children from the D.C. metro area.

A battery electric vehicle at one of the Earth Day stations.

Daisy Pistey-Lyhne of the Alliance for Climate Education

An environmentally friendly graffiti wall at an Earth Day station.

Kristin Bauer of HBO’s True Blood and her musician husband Abrivan Straten

Amelia Madof Sumbana, Ambassador from Mozambique

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Members of the IFAW, Bauer, Fred O’Regan, president and CEO of the IFAW, Phil Radford, Executive Director for Greenpeace, Patricia Forkan of the Humane Society and Kathleen Rogers, president of Earth Day Network

Earth Day Network Director of Education Sean Miller

Dave White, chief of the Natural Resource Conservation Service for the USDA

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