Earth Day - April 22

Monday, April 22, 2024

Today is Earth Day, April Showers Day, and National Jelly Bean Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Earth Day
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ON THIS DATE

• 1889 - The Oklahoma Land Rush begins.
• 1970 - The first Earth Day is celebrated.
• 2016 - The Paris Agreement, designed to fight climate change, is signed.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1707 - English novelist Henry Fielding
• 1724 - German philosoper Immanuel Kant
• 1870 - Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin
• 1899 - Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov
• 1904 - Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer
• 1922 - Jazz composer and bandleader Charles Mingus
• 1936 - Singer-songwriter Glen Campbell
• 1937 - Actor Jack Nicholson
• 1943 - Poet Louise Glück
• 1946 - Director and screenwriter John Waters

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman - LISTEN
• Charles Mingus - Goodbye Porkpie Hat - LISTEN

POEMS OF THE DAY 

• Louise Gluck - Hyacinth
• Gary Soto - Earth Day on the Bay
  

THEME:  Earth Day

• Grades PreK-3 - Nature Cat - Earth Day Everyday Song (0:51) - VIEW
• Grades K-3 - Maya and Miguel - Earth Day Celebration (2:15) - VIEW
• Grades K-5 - PBS Learning Media - All About the Holidays (1:44) - Earth Day - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS Learning Media - Earth Days: The First Earth Day (2:11) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - The Environmental Movement and the First Earth Day (2:43) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS Learning Media - Celebrate Earth Day Collection - VIEW
• Grades: 9-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - Four Films for Earth Day - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

SAVING SONGBIRDS
Monday, 4/22 from 7-8 pm NHPBS
Travel from New England to Costa Rica and Jamaica to meet some of the most colorful and melodic migratory birds and the people who are dedicated to saving them, including Vermont students helping to re-forest the mountains of Costa Rica. SAVING SONGBIRDS Streaming Video

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal
Monday, 4/22 from 9-11 pm NHPBS
Revisit the story of the 1970s Love Canal disaster, one of the most notorious environmental and public health disasters in US history. The battle for justice, led mostly by women, created the basis for the landmark federal Superfund program. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Streaming Video

NH EXPLORE- 11.2 Comcast (11/801) More Options

BIRD: NOT OUT OF NOWHERE
Monday, 4/22 from 2-3 pm NH EXPLORE
This film looks back at the 21 years Charlie Parker spent at home in Kansas City and his long-lasting impression on Kansas City Jazz. BIRD: NOT OUT OF NOWHERE  Streaming Video

NH WORLD - 11.3 More Options

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - The Sun Queen
Monday, 4/22 from 3-4 pm NH WORLD
For nearly 50 years, chemical engineer and inventor Maria Telkes applied her prodigious intellect to harnessing the power of the sun. She designed and built the world's first successfully solar-heated modern residence and identified a promising new chemical that, for the first time, could store solar heat like a battery. And yet, along the way, she was undercut and thwarted by her boss and colleagues - all men - at MIT.  AMERICAN EXPERIENCE - The Sun Queen Streaming Video

NOVA - Weathering the Future
Monday, 4/22 from 4-5 pm NH WORLD
It's hard not to notice: our weather is changing. From longer, hotter heat waves, to more intense rainstorms, to megafires and multi-year droughts - the U.S. is experiencing the full range of impacts from a changing global climate. But people on the front lines of these destabilizing weather trends around the country are coming up with new ways to adapt to the many challenges they bring. NOVA Weathering the Future Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339