Earth day is the modern day of celebration to help save the environment and its rapidly depleting resources. An activist for peace named John McConnell began this tradition in 1969. It has been celebrated in many places all over the globe since then. During this week communities ficus on projects to help improve environmental problems. It is celebrated on April 22. This day was officially founded in 1970 by Gaylord Nelson who was a United States senator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day).In Early medieval Britain the people had an early form of becoming environmentally responsible. The roman empire had just recently fallen and the people of Europe were becoming desperate. The people in Britain used the thing they savaged from the roman building to survive. When the roman empire was declining they stopped sending shipments of supplies and soldiers to Brittan. The people needed to recycle the the ruins of the roman buildings because after the fall of Rome there economy crashed. Britain was no longer a unified force. The people "raided buildings for quarried stone, iron clamps, and hefty 2-pound nails. They stripped lead pipe from deftly engineered water systems. They robbed graves for pottery and cooking utensils." Quarried stone was very valuable for these people and they could only get it from the roman ruins. The people no longer new how to smelt metal oar. There metal smiths could use the large amount of iron to make tools. There was enough building materials that it took hundreds of years to use most of it up. This was a wealth of material that helped the aria survive with the loss of Roman help (http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/04/medieval-recycling/). This was a form of recycling that was forced by necessity and it is similar to our modern earth day activities ti help out the environment.
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Medieval Recycling. Web. 19 Apr. 2010.
Picture Source:
Earth Flag PD.jpg. Web. 19 Apr. 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_flag_PD.jpg.
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