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Next week we’ll all be celebrating this place we call home: Earth.

Earth Day Network, the nonprofit organization that was founded by the organizers of the original Earth Day in 1970, is speaheading major events on the National Mall and seven other cities on Sunday, April 20th.

In addition to the free events on the Mall and seven cities, on Monday, April 21st there will be a day of action. For the second year in a row, Earth Day Network is sponsoring Earth Day on the Hill, which will bring community leaders from all over the U.S. to lobby Congress on the issues of global warming and environmental justice and equity.

Earth Day Network will also be calling for people to take personal steps to fight climate change, such as taking public transportation or carpooling to Earth Day events, as well as signing Earth Day Network’s Sky Petition at www.earthday.net. The solutions-oriented Sky Petition calls for a moratorium on new coal-burning plants, a move toward a renewable energies, a demand for new buildings to be carbon neutral, and protection for the poor and middle class from unfairly assuming more than their fair share of the costs of the transition to a green economy.

Earth Day Network seeks to grow and diversify the environmental movement worldwide, and to mobilize it as the most effective vehicle for promoting a healthy, sustainable planet. It pursues these goals through education, politics, cultural events, and consumer activism. Earth Day Network has a global reach with a network of more than 17,000 partners and organizations in 174 countries. More than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day activities, making it the largest secular civic event in the world.

The 39th Earth Day will be celebrated on April 22, 2008.