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🡄 (Previous category) :: 📁 🌐 Transgender Day of Visibility (March 31st)  🌐 Earth Day (22 April)This is an archive of prayers, pledges, and song composed for, or relevant to, Earth Day, an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on 22 April 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly Earth Day Network). In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be observed on 21 March 21 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature’s equipoise was later sanctioned in a proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later, United States Senator Gaylord Nelson proposed the idea to hold a nationwide environmental teach-in on 22 April 1970. He hired a young activist, Denis Hayes, to be the National Coordinator. Nelson and Hayes renamed the event “Earth Day”. Denis and his staff grew the event beyond the original idea for a teach-in to include the entire United States. More than 20 million people poured out on the streets, and the first Earth Day remains the largest single-day protest in human history. On the 20th anniversary of Earth Day in 1990, Hayes took it international and organized events in 141 nations. If you have composed a prayer for the Earth, please share it here. Filter resources by Name Bella Savitzky Abzug | Katy Z. Allen | Jorge Mario Bergoglio | Gila Caine | Mim Kelber | Edna A. Maisner-Reitz | Neohasid [dot] org | David Seidenberg (translation) | David Seidenberg | the Shalom Center | Richard Shavei-Tzion | Adlai E. Stevenson Ⅱ | Unknown Author(s) | Aharon N. Varady (transcription) | Arthur Waskow Filter resources by Tag כיבוד אב ואם kibud av va-em | American Jewry of the United States | Catholic and Apostolic Church | Cold War (1985–1991) | earth | earth pledges | eco-conscious | eco-feminism | ecoḥasid | ecumenical prayers | English vernacular prayer | global climate change | global warming | Hebrew translation | interbreathing | interconnectedness | Memorial prayers | מי שברך mi sheberakh | North America | Northampton | prayers for mothers | second chances | תחינות teḥinot | טבע Teva | universalist | Vatican City | 20th century C.E. | 21st century C.E. | 58th century A.M. Filter resources by Category
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The Open Siddur Project is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, non-commercial, non-denominational, non-prescriptive, gratis & libre Open Access archive of contemplative praxes, liturgical readings, and Jewish prayer literature (historic and contemporary, familiar and obscure) composed in every era, region, and language Jews have ever prayed. Our goal is to provide a platform for sharing open-source resources, tools, and content for individuals and communities crafting their own prayerbook (siddur). Through this we hope to empower personal autonomy, preserve customs, and foster creativity in religious culture.
ויהי נעם אדני אלהינו עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננה עלינו ומעשה ידינו כוננהו "May the pleasantness of אדֹני our elo’ah be upon us; may our handiwork be established for us — our handiwork, may it be established." –Psalms 90:17
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