Women's Spaces Radio Show of April 20, 2020

Women's Spaces Radio Show with host Elaine B Holtz,  co-producer Ken Norton and guest Vesta Copestakes on 50 Years of Earth Day, broadcast via KBBF-FM 89.1 on 4/20/2020 - Show ID: WSA200420.Ken recounts the burial of a car at San Jose State College on February 20, 1970 at the Survival Faire, two months before the first Earth Day. Students donated to purchase a new orange Maverick and then had a funeral procession through downtown San Jose before lowering the car into its grave pit on the campus by the Administration Building and Engineering Building, to draw attention to the toxic and smoggy air caused by automobile exhaust.  It was enough of circus atmosphere to attract the New York Times to publish a report the next day titled Survival Theme of Faire on Coast.  Vesta talks of events leading to the First Earth Day like Mao's policy of killing the sparrows and Rachel Carsons' book Silent Spring.https://www.womensspaces.com/ArchiveWSA20/WSA200420.html