Today, April 22, is Earth Day! This annual holiday celebrates environmental protection and promotes environmental awareness efforts. Earth Day started in 1970 and is observed in countries around the world.
Special Collections contains archival collections and other resources that help document environmental activism in New Mexico since the 1960s. Some of these sources include:
- Albuquerque Environmental Health Department collection (reports, guides, newsletters, and ephemera)
- Albuquerque Earth Day Coalition collection (newsletters)
- Larry Gordon papers
- Health and Environment Department resource directory, 1978-1983
- Environmental Problems, 1969
- Focus on Environmental Epidemiology in New Mexico, 1983
- Proceedings of the First Governor's Conference on Environmental Health Planning for the State of New Mexico, 1966