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From not-so-humble beginnings in 1970, when 20 million participated across the U.S., Earth Day has grown into a global tradition, with a billion expected to take part in 2009. Find out when it is, how it started, how it’s evolved, and what you can do. When Is Earth Day? Earth Day picture Enlarge Photo _ Printer Friendly Email to a Friend What’s This? SHARE Digg StumbleUpon Reddit RELATED * Green Guide: Earth Day * PHOTOS: Artist “Runs the Numbers” of Big Ocean Threats * PHOTOS: Green Paris of 2030? Every day, the saying goes, is Earth Day. But it’s popularly celebrated on April 22. Why? One persistent rumor holds that April 22 was chosen because it’s the birthday of Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union. “Lenin’s goal was to destroy private property and this goal is obviously shared by environmentalists,” the Capitalism Magazine Web site noted in a 2004 article perpetuating the theory. Kathleen Rogers, president of Washington, D.C.-based Earth Day Network, which was founded b
