Earth Day

1. March 25, 2024

   Earth Month puts focus on U-M sustainability efforts

   U-M is marking late March and all of April with a series of events focused on sustainability and climate action, continuing a tradition that began with the first “Teach-In on the Environment” in 1970.

2. April 18, 2022

   Heritage Project — Earth Day eve

   For a few days in March 1970, U-M hosted what may have been the most important single event in its history, an event that pushed on the wheel of history and launched the modern movement to save the planet from environmental disaster.

3. March 12, 2020

   Original Earth Day organizers come together 50 years later

   Six former members of the U-M student organization that established the original Teach-In on the Environment in 1970 reconvened 50 years later for a panel discussion.

4. February 24, 2020

   U-M to celebrate role in first Earth Day, address ever-urgent crisis

   U-M is commemorating the 50th anniversary of Earth Day campuswide, highlighting the history of the environmental movement at U-M and elevating the need to address climate change.

5. March 30, 2015

   Free Earth Day events coming to Central Campus on April 3

   Michigan Dining and Central Student Government are co-hosting an Earth Day celebration at two Central Campus locations from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday.