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<title>
Apr. 23, 1990: Earth Day:A Global Festival
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 23, 1990 Dan Quayle:No Joke
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
ENVIRONMENT, Page 84
EARTH DAY
A Global Festival
</hdr>
<body>
<p>Not sure how to celebrate April 22? Here's a sampler of the
worldwide whirl planned for the big day. The committed and the
merely curious will be gathering at sites from Toulouse to
Tokyo. There's something for everyone: a quiet read or a
marathon rock concert, a bike ride or a mountain climb, some
tree planting or trash sculpting.
</p>
<p>TV SHOWS
</p>
<p> Glasnost on the air. The Blue Eye of Siberia, a Soviet
documentary on the deterioration of Lake Baikal, plays on April
18 and 19, and a two-hour feature on April 22 will address the
Soviet Union's worst ecological disasters.
</p>
<p> Rockers to the rescue. A CBS special called Save the Planet
runs on April 20. With hosts Katey Sagal (Married...With
Children) and comedian Bobcat Goldthwait, the show has musical
numbers by the Fine Young Cannibals and the Red Hot Chili
Peppers. Paula Abdul, Alice Cooper and Billy Idol will "provide
their own thoughts on the state of the world's environment."
</p>
<p> China tunes in. A speech by Premier Li Peng urging support
for environmental protection leads off the evening news from
Beijing on April 22, and an Earth Day concert airs nationwide
later that night.
</p>
<p> Mother Earth's delicate condition. On April 22 ABC
broadcasts the Earth Day Special, featuring Bette Midler as an
abused Mother Earth who collapses in a town square, suffering
from global warming, deforestation, etc., and gets tended by
Drs. Doogie Howser (Neil Patrick Harris) and Steven Kiley (James
Brolin). Visitors to the invalid include Kevin Costner, Quincy
Jones and Meryl Streep.
</p>
<p> Video marathon. The VH-1 cable network will air 52
consecutive hours, starting the night of April 20, of Earth Day
programming, including musical performances, videos, short
documentary films, humor and political commentary.
</p>
<p>CONCERTS AND DANCE
</p>
<p> Rocking in Rio. About 260,000 people are expected for Paul
McCartney's Brazil concerts on April 19 and 21, part of a world
tour calling attention to the environment.
</p>
<p> Whole lot of shaking. Columbia, Md., is host to "Performance
for the Planet," a concert with 10,000 Maniacs (the band, not
the audience), the Fabulous Thunderbirds and the Jungle
Brothers. April 21.
</p>
<p> Tokyo serenade. The "We Love Music, We Love the Earth"
concert includes Sadao Watanabe, Lee Ritenour, Patti Austin,
James Taylor, Dave Grusin and Oscar Castro-Neves. April 21.
</p>
<p> Fancy footwork. Mankind in and out of harmony with nature
is the theme of The Source, a ballet premiering in Piqua, Ohio,
April 21.
</p>
<p> Bangkok bash. Thailand's top rock band, the Carabao,
headlines the "We Love the Forest" concert on April 22.
</p>
<p>THEATER
</p>
<p> Whodunit. The All Children's Theater Ensemble in Warwick,
R.I., presents End of the World Cafe, a mystery in which Mother
Earth hires a detective to find out who wants to kill her and
why. April 21.
</p>
<p> Where's Shakespeare? Sacred Earth Trust is managing a drama
competition that begins on Earth Day in London. Playwrights are
invited to submit scripts, videos or cassettes giving an
environmental slant to religious stories.
</p>
<p>BOOKS
</p>
<p> Reflections by a Member of the Species. The late German
neurologist Hoimar von Ditfurth examines man's arrogance and the
resulting disregard for and mistreatment of nature. Claassen;
39.80 deutsche marks ($24).
</p>
<p> Design for a Livable Planet. Ecology-energy expert Jon
Naar's handy, all-around guide to individual and group action.
Harper & Row; $12.95.
</p>
<p> The Great Kapok Tree: A Tale of the Amazon Rain Forest. In
Lynne Cherry's lushly drawn children's story, a woodcutter's
plan to chop down the towering tree meets with objections from
the forest denizens. Gulliver Books/ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich;
$14.95.
</p>
<p> Damming the Narmada: India's Greatest Planned Environmental
Disaster. This attack on a mammoth dam project scheduled for
central India is so controversial that the Indian customs
department banned it for a time in 1988. It was written by
Claude Alvares and Ramesh Billorey. Third World Network and
APPEN; 40 rupees ($2.30).
</p>
<p> Making Peace with the Planet. The latest book by biologist
and best-selling author Barry Commoner sets a new agenda for
activists and governments. Pantheon; $19.95.
</p>
<p> Will the Earth Stop Turning? Haroun Tazieff, France's former
Secretary of State for Prevention of Natural Disasters, assesses
threats ranging from ozone-layer damage to garbage and suggests
how policies might be improved. Segher; 85 francs ($15).
</p>
<p> A Forest Journey: The Role of Wood in the Development of
Civilization. An illustrated history by John Perlin of how man's
reliance on wood for fuel and as a building material has shaped
culture, economies, politics and technology. Norton; $19.95.
</p>
<p> The Rise and Fall of the Environmental Business. Italian
economist Emilio Gerelli's book stresses the need for monetary
incentives to help the environment. Il Mulino; 20,000 lire
($16).
</p>
<p>FESTIVALS AND RALLIES
</p>
<p> Sunrise over Nova Scotia. Early-morning and evening
ceremonies will be held at the picturesque but polluted harbor
of Halifax. Children's choirs will sing, and medicine man Noel
Kirkwood of the Micmac Indian nation will speak "as the Great
Spirit moves him," says the organizer.
</p>
<p> New York frolic. Where the ball traditionally drops in Times
Square on New Year's Eve, a model of the earth will rise at 9
a.m. to begin an all-day Earth Day festival. Crowds will hear
speeches, eat organic foods, examine "environmentally sound"
consumer products and enjoy entertainment ranging from a samba
band to the B-52s rock group.
</p>
<p> Rio replay. Brazil's discovery on April 22, 1500, is
re-enacted with an ecological twist at Copacabana Beach. Sailors
disembarking from a schooner will carry constructive emblems of
mankind: solar energy, bicycles, biodegradable products. Then
they will load up the ship with destructive symbols: nuclear
energy, pesticides, aerosol cans and, yes, bureaucrats.
</p>
<p> Hong Kong carnival. A day-long educational entertainment at
Kowloon Park featuring singers, artists and mimes, as well as
exhibits of "green" consumer products, demonstrations of how
paper is recycled and games like "nonpolluting picnic."
</p>
<p> Fun and games in Chicago. The city's Academy of Sciences is
having a children's sing-along, a puppet show and games like
"smart shopper," in which youngsters choose the most
environmentally sound product in a make-believe store.
</p>
<p> Tokyo happening. Visitors to the Earth Day festival at
Yume-no-shima (Dream Island), a park built on what was once a
trash dump, can take in a concert or play, watch milk cartons
being turned into postcards and cooking oil into soap, or tour
two nearby garbage-processing centers.
</p>
<p> Honolulu review. Modes of transport that rely on fossil fuel
are banned from the Low Energy Parade. Participants must bring
a vehicle run by solar energy, electricity or methane gas.
Otherwise, a bicycle or foot power will do nicely.
</p>
<p> St. Louis roundup. Handmade costumes and masks of endangered
species are the highlight of the parades on April 21 and 22 that
start at the city's famed zoo.
</p>
<p>CLEANUPS
</p>
<p> Adopt-a-beach. Thousands of volunteers will hit the
California coastline from San Diego to Oregon, to clear litter
and refuse off the beaches.
</p>
<p> Litter lift. More than 60,000 citizens, including students,
officials and civic and business leaders, are expected to fan
out along 9 km (15 miles) of Winnipeg, Canada, roadways to pick
up trash and debris.
</p>
<p> Give a day for the Bay. In Maryland, residents by the
thousands have signed up for the April 21 statewide cleanup that
has Chesapeake Bay as the focus. Volunteers will plant trees and
marsh grass, paint DON'T DUMP signs on storm drains, build
nesting boxes for ducks, remove fish barriers, pick up debris
from streams and shorelines, test water and scout pollution
sources.
</p>
<p>PLANTINGS
</p>
<p> The wooden curtain. Trees will be planted at various sites
along the border between East and West Germany, where
fortifications once stood.
</p>
<p> Trees across America. In St. Louis, 10,000 people are
expected to plant 10,000 trees on the banks where the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers meet.
</p>
<p> Forest transplant. On Canada's Vancouver Island, Boy Scouts
and others will remove trees from an old forest that is about
to be cut down and replant them 3.2 km (2 miles) away in an area
that has already been cleared of vegetation.
</p>
<p> Kenya countdown. The Evangelical Fellowship of Kenya will
launch its campaign to plant 1.5 million trees with the help of
churches and schools.
</p>
<p>FEATS
</p>
<p> Bike to the future. More than 200 cyclists are pledged to
take part in a 24-hour bike-a-thon to raise money for a
stream-bank cleanup around Grand Rapids.
</p>
<p> Peak performance. To demonstrate that the environment is a
common cause, 15 U.S., Soviet and Chinese climbers hope to reach
the top of 8,848-meter (29,028-ft.) Mount Everest on Earth Day.
Those who get there will place satellite calls to heads of
state, then pick up garbage and gear dumped by previous
expeditions.
</p>
<p> Tower of trash. In Toulouse, the activist group Friends of
the Earth will unveil a 2.5-meter (8-ft.) tall garbage sculpture
titled Monument to the Unknown Refuse.
</p>
<p> A rousing pounding. Led by Native Americans, Oregonians
across the state will beat on drums just before noon. The
thumping is meant to assure disgruntled earth spirits that
mankind is still here and trying to improve the planet's
condition.
</p>
<p> Ladybug liberation. In recognition of the danger that burst
rubber balloons pose to birds and the environment,
schoolchildren in Solano County, Calif., will celebrate by
releasing, instead of balloons, 300,000 colorful ladybugs.
</p>
<p> Neighborly nudge. Not everyone worries about the hazards of
releasing balloons. As many as 10,000 of them, carrying cards
with pro-environmental messages like "Buy recycled paper," will
be sent aloft from Munich's main square. The project's
organizers hope for a wind from the southwest that will blow the
balloons into highly polluted Czechoslovakia.
</p>
<p> Kite flyby. More than 3,000 kites made by schoolchildren in
Tours, France, will be joined together and flown, creating a
colorful arch across the Cher River.
</p>
<p> Clear-water relay. To raise consciousness about
contamination in rivers and streams, activists will collect a
bottle of springwater in Lincoln County, Ky., and relay it by
canoe down the Green River's 616-km (382-mile) length to
Evansville, Ind.
</p>
<p> Pollution protest. Rome's nature lovers plan to put their
bodies on the line April 21 when they stage a sit-down, maybe
even a lie-in, along one of the Italian capital's traffic-choked
central thoroughfares. Survivors can attend a concert in a
nearby piazza.
</p>
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