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Earth Day began on April 22, 1970, when millions of Americans participated in creative and dramatic public demonstrations to raise awareness about environmental issues, sparking the modern environmental movement and leading to major policy changes.

BAA alum Olya Milenkaya spent the summer of 2003 with Audubon’s Project Puffin on Maine’s islands — banding terns, monitoring puffin burrows, and tracking chick diets — hands-on science shaping her path in conservation.

Bay Area Action’s direct actions in the 1990s ranged from rallies, sit-ins, and tree-sits, to creative tactics like costumed protests, theatrical demonstrations, and giant “human signs,” to confront environmental destruction and corporate power.

A group of past Bay Area Action members brought a human sign at Facebook HQ in 2020 to tell Mark Zuckerberg that “TRUTH MATTERS”.

A year-long commitment to low-paid work in service of an important cause, driven by a passion for preserving its history and sharing what unfolds behind the scenes.

Exploring how the 1990s Bay Area environmental nonprofit’s evolution was closely intertwined with, and shaped by, the rise of Silicon Valley and the internet.