Ashton Kutcher

Kutcher also owns an Italian restaurant in Los Angeles named Dolce; he has two toes that are fused together on his left foot. McHarg, father of ecological urban planning. Kutcher has been reported to celebrate traditional Jewish holidays [1], take time off from filming [2] and was married in a Kabbalah ceremony by a rabbi. Earth Day was in part started by Ian L. Both Kutcher and Moore are fairly devout followers of Kabbalah, a mystical off-shoot of the Jewish religion. Canadian artist Devin Townsend has composed a song called "Earth Day" which appears on his 2001 album Terria. Following his break-up with Murphy in mid 2003, Kutcher began dating actress Demi Moore, whom he married on September 24, 2005 in a lavish ceremony in Los Angeles, California. The alternative rock group Dramarama released a popular song about Earth Day in 1993 called "What Are We Gonna Do" [1].

Kutcher has dated a variety of celebrities, including actresses January Jones (from 1998 to 2001), Ashley Scott (from 2001 to 2002), Monet Mazur (2002) and his Just Married co-star, Brittany Murphy, whom he dated from 2002 to 2003. The symbol for Earth Day is a green Θ (Greek theta) on a white background. Kutcher is also the producer of the reality-television show, Beauty and the Geek, which began in 2005. However, Earth Day has also been said to have been chosen on April 22 because it coincides with the birthday of actor Eddie Albert, who was an early contributor to many environmental causes. In order to avoid the lawsuits, the videotaping of Rodriguez's prank was destroyed without any release and Vartan's prank has not been aired. Some conservative critics of environmentalism point out the same date of Lenin's birthday. The series involves various hidden camera tricks performed on celebrities; the series has sometimes led to controversy, as when New York Yankees' third-baseman Alex Rodriguez and actor Michael Vartan, both victims of the show's pranks, threatened to sue Kutcher. Another reading of the April 22 date understood by Earth Day organizers notes that the 1970 event took place between college students' Spring Break and final exams, enabling students to participate on campuses across the country.

In 2003, Kutcher used his status as a television star to produce and star in his own series on MTV, Punk'd. Arbor Day is celebrated on the birthday of its founder, Julius Sterling Morton. His 2004 film, The Butterfly Effect, was an unusually dramatic role for Kutcher and was also deemed a box office success. The date chosen for Earth Day is coincident with the historical date of Arbor Day, a national tree-planting holiday started in the late 1800's. Kutcher achieved some stardom and was cast in a series of film roles; although he auditioned but was not cast in the role of Danny Walker in Pearl Harbor (2001), he starred in a few financially successful comedic films, including Dude, Where's My Car? (2000), Just Married (2003) and Guess Who (2005). Few seem to realize that this most widely-known date to honor nature could be used to galvanize action to benefit nature through changes in human behavior or actions to affect policy. However, a month later, he was discovered in a bar in Iowa City, Iowa and cast in the television series That '70s Show, which became a success. The political reality is that Earth Day is almost universally ignored or dismissed by serious policy people working on environment.

After some success in modeling, Kutcher had planned to move to Hollywood, but was asked to return to college by his mother. During Earth Day 2000, the event's 30th anniversary, actor Leonardo DiCaprio was chosen by Hayes to be the spokesperson of the event, despite the fact that DiCaprio drove a large SUV at the time and was viewed as wanting to rehabilitate his public image in the wake of clever Thai environmental protesters targeting him during the filming of the actor's film The Beach in 1999 (which was filmed in part in a precious Thai national park). In 1997, he dropped out in order to pursue a modeling career, some of which involved working in underwear ads . Most people know about Earth Day from a 30-second blurb on their evening news of kids at school planting trees or doing a trash cleanup. Kutcher majored in biochemical engineering and was a member of the Delta Chi fraternity at the University of Iowa. Earth Day leadership fractured over the years, with Hayes and Nelson and other widely-known Earth Day leaders favoring more programmatic and conventional public relations approaches to the observance(s), while grassroots groups have sought to make Earth Day into a day of action which changes human behavior and provokes policy changes. He was expelled from Clear Creek-Amana, his high school, for underaged drinking, and arrested at age 18 for breaking into the school with a friend and stealing money from a vending machine. The EPA was created within three years of the first Earth Day.

As a teen, Kutcher worked as a floor sweeper for a General Mills plant, and donated blood for money. Many important laws were passed by the Congress in the wake of the 1970 Earth Day, including the Clean Air Act, laws to protect drinking water, wild lands and the ocean. He grew up on a farm in rural Iowa. In 1971 Senator Gaylord Nelson announced an 'Earth Week' — for the third week of April — as a yearly event. Kutcher has an older sister, Tausha and a fraternal twin, Michael, who is younger by five minutes. politicians that environmental legislation had a substantial, lasting constituency. Kutcher was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Larry Kutcher (an employee of General Mills) and Diane (who worked for Procter & Gamble); his ancestry is mostly Irish American, as well as distantly Native American and Bohemian (the origin of his surname). Senator Nelson directly credited the first Earth Day with persuading U.S.

. The first Earth Day, in 1970, had participants and celebrants in two thousand colleges and universities, roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the U.S. Christopher Ashton Kutcher (born February 7, 1978) is an American actor. The "holiday" proved extremely popular in the United States. interview, 2003, CinemasOnline. According to the Senator, "It organized itself.". interview, 1/04, UnderGroundOnline. Though he felt his committee had neither the time nor resources to organize the 20 million demonstrators and the thousands of schools and local communities that participated, these things did happen.

interview, 1/22/04, Filmmonthly. According to Senator Nelson, Earth Day "worked" because of the spontaneous response at the grassroots level. interview, 3/05, About.com. It was the era of student political activism and outdoor protests that attracted news cameras. interview on "Guess Who", 3/05, BlackFilm. Senator Nelson staffed the office with college students and selected Denis Hayes (a Harvard student and Stanford graduate) as coordinator of activities. Senate, took a leading role in organizing the celebration, to demonstrate popular political support for an environmental agenda.

Gaylord Nelson, an environmental activist in the U.S. The successes of that day led to it becoming a regular event. In January 1970, the Environmental Teach-In, decided to call their one-off event on 22 April Earth Day. Congress and President Ford proclaimed and urged observance of Earth Day on the March equinox.

In 1975 the U.S. Peace Bell at the very moment of the equinox. The United Nations Earth Day ceremony continued each year on the day of the March equinox (20th or 21st), with the ringing of the U.N. In his statement on March 21, 1971, U Thant said: “May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.” Secretary General Waldheim observed Earth Day with similar ceremonies in 1972.

U Thant supported John McConnell’s global initiative to celebrate this annual spring equinox event. The first Earth Day proclamation was issued by San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto on March 21, 1970. John McConnell first introduced the idea of a global holiday called Earth Day at a UNESCO Conference on the Environment in 1969, the same year that he designed the Earth flag. At the moment of the equinox, the Peace Bell is rung at the UN headquarters in New York.

On February 26, 1971, UN Secretary-General U Thant signed a proclamation to that effect. The United Nations celebrates Earth Day each year on the vernal equinox (around March 21). Earth Day was created to remind us of our shared responsibility to protect the planet. This annual event marks the beginning of Earth Day which has been traditionally observed with the ringing of bells.

Earth Day is a day of equilibrium when differences are forgotten and nature's renewal is celebrated by all. Anyone standing on the equator at noon will not cast a shadow. At the South Pole, the sun sets, bringing an end to the six-month-long day, while at the North Pole, the sun rises, ending six months of continuous darkness. At this global moment, night and day are equal length anywhere on Earth.

The original equinoctial Earth Day is celebrated in most countries on the vernal equinox to mark the precise moment that spring begins in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. . "May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life.". Some grassroots Earth Day organizers seek to move the date of the observance to the Summer Solstice, to take advantage of the warm temperatures in the Northern hemisphere (where most people live) to create greater participation.

Earth Day is in the public domain and open to all persons to shape. Earth Day is a name used by two different observances held annually in the (northern) spring, both intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth's fragile environment.