Earth day

• -- An Indian boy plays in the polluted waters of the Yamuna River in New Delhi. Women wearing leaves and flowers ready for a celebration in Barcelona. A girl holds a poster calling for water conservation amid a rain storm in Washington.
(Huffington Post)
• More than one billion people around the world are participating in Earth Day 2012.  The celebration came to the metro today.  The 7th annual Earth Day in the Junction promotes green living and practices in the Des Moines area.
(msnbc.com)
• (04-22) 18:15 PDT San Francisco-- Larisa LaVladi has fashioned jewelry out of scraps of leather, old computer keyboards and a broken metal vegetable steamer.
(San Francisco Gate)
• More than 100 paddlers spent Sunday on Harrods Creek, learning about the on-going environmental efforts to protect the watershed — and celebrating the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day.
(Courier-Journal)
• Utah State University is one of many institutions and firms exploring algae's potential as a provider of alternative energy.
(Forbes)
• Happy Earth Day 2012, everyone! One day we may look back on this as the time when the tide began to recede – that being the tide of Anthropogenic Global Warming hysteria.
(RedState)
• FAIRHOPE, Alabama -- Roy Hyde knows how to make the best of the natural resources around him.
(Everything Alabama Blog)
• As is tradition for Earth Day — and, really, just about any holiday or special event — Googles unveiled a new version of its logo to commemorate the special day. A doodle, as it were.
(PC Magazine)
• Since its Earth Day today, Holiday Inn-parent IHGs announcing that its significantly expanding its hotel toiletry recycling program, the company tells USA TODAYs Hotel Check-In. Today, 62 IHG-brand hotels participate in the program run by Clean the World.
(USA Today)