
: How Can You Save Energy While Spring Cleaning Earth Day 2012 : A Day to Remember the Past and Shape the Future April 26, 2012 10:10 Last Sunday was Earth Day 2012. That day , many of us took a moment for contemplation , and stepped back to reexamine how we use the natural resources that our amazing planet offers . us Perhaps we took time to think about the some of the historical events led to the first Earth Day in 1970. A colleague of mine , for example , went to Rockville , Maryland , to visit the cemetery where Rachel Carson , author of Silent Spring is memorialized for generations to come . For those of you unfamiliar with Carson's work , she was one of the 20th century's most influential American writers on conservationism , and her bestselling book Silent Spring which envisioned a