Google’s Earth Day Tribute: Homepage’s Animated Water & Animal Scene Honors 41st Anniversary of Environmental Movement (video)
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on April 22, 2011
Earth Day is commemorated today as an animated logo doodle on Google’s homepage — the animation shows penguins, pandas, a koala, leaping fish, flying birds, and a waterfall in a lush nature scene (yes, it’s an erroneous mixing of ecosystems and hemispheres, but it sure looks pretty).
Forty-one years ago, Earth Day was launched as a day meant to publicize and inspire awareness for Earth’s natural environment. Earth Day was founded primarily by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and was first held on April 22, 1970. The environment movement was officially born in the United States. More than 20 million people participated that first year — Earth Day is now observed on April 22 each year in 175 countries by more than 500 million people. Nelson, an environmentalist, launched Earth Day to bring attention to there being no legal or regulatory mechanisms in place at the time to protect the environment. The former senator passed away in 2005 at age 89.
The graphic above of today’s logo is a static screenshot. Here’s a quick YouTube video that captures the animation on Google’s homepage, as well as other graphic tributes today for Earth Day.
This isn’t the first time that Google has honored the anniversary of Earth Day. Here’s the logo doodle that was created in 2010:
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