Official publication of the Philadelphia Earth Week Committee, produced as a program for and memento of the first Earth Week. Organized in response to Senator Gaylord Nelson’s call for a national environmental teach-in, plans for an Earth Day expanded to include a full week of activities and events, including a public performance by the Broadway cast of “Hair” and speeches by Allen Ginsberg, Ralph Nader, Lewis Mumford, Senator Edmund Muskie, Ian McHarg, Alan Watts, and Frank Herbert (“We’re all human beings on one Spaceship Earth.”)
Among the magazine’s contents: an interview with Ginsberg by David Fraser, followed by a previously unpublished poem; Ralph Nader on ecotactics; Lewis Mumford’s introduction to the Natural History Press publication of Ian McHarg’s “Design With Nature”; a transcript of a confrontation between student press delegates and then-Secretary of the Interior Wally Hickel, and the Earth Day “Declaration of Interdependence.” With full schedule of the week’s events and speakers (including Ira Einhorn for the April 22 opening ceremony; his name does not, however, appear in the list of Earth Week Committee members.)
Illustrated throughout with photographs and artwork.
