{"id":3808,"date":"2025-04-23T18:34:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:24:05","slug":"going-kelly-green-for-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/2025\/04\/23\/going-kelly-green-for-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Going Kelly Green for Earth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nolan Duncan<br \/>\n<b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">April 23, 2025<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"\">HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WMUL-FM) \u2014 April 22 marks 55 years of celebrating Earth Day.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Students were getting ready to show their love for the Earth in the days leading up to Earth Day.<\/p>\n<p>Students\u2019 plans ranged from walking around campus to just keeping the planet clean.<\/p>\n<p>Emma Robinson said, \u201cI like to walk around campus and see what is going on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Free plants are handed out and you kind of just get to know more about our environment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just feel like keeping the Earth nice and straight and so that way it can be a better atmosphere,\u201d Alex Meza said.<\/p>\n<p>One environmental science major said that while she is excited for Earth day, it\u2019s important to remember that the Earth needs to be protected twenty-four seven.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day should be Earth Day,&#8221; Niyah Sapp said. &#8220;We should always be mindful of our actions and how they impact the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While one student loves the Earth, they didn\u2019t want to forget how Earth Day is weaponized by some groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRecycling was created to shift the blame of environmental destruction from corporations onto the common man, and Earth Day often perpetuates that lie that it is the individual\u2019s responsibility to take care of our Earth when really the entire reason for the environmental crisis we\u2019re in is because of the greed of the ruling class,\u201d Michael Davis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nolan Duncan April 23, 2025 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WMUL-FM) \u2014 April 22 marks 55 years of celebrating Earth Day.\u00a0 Students were getting ready to show their love for the Earth in the days leading up to Earth Day. Students\u2019 plans ranged from walking around campus to just keeping the planet clean. Emma Robinson said, \u201cI like<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,4],"tags":[115,1154,1155,69,1156,28,1111,1112,1114,1115,1116,1113,23,51,96],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-wmul-news","tag-college-radio","tag-earth-day","tag-earth-day-2025","tag-huntington-wv","tag-marshall-earth-day","tag-marshall-university","tag-nolan-duncan","tag-nolan-duncan-marshall","tag-nolan-duncan-nc88","tag-nolan-duncan-news","tag-nolan-duncan-newscenter-88","tag-nolan-duncan-wmul","tag-thundering-herd","tag-wmul","tag-wv"],"acf":[],"fimg_url":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/wmul\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}