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Today you learn about some unexpected ways we can save our environment with special guest Bill Nye.

Then you'll learn about why spicy solar panels capture more sunlight.

But satisfy some curiosity.

Today is Earth Day, an annual event to demonstrate support for environmental protection.

And who would have thought back on the first Earth Day in 1970

that half a century later our environment would be one of the most important issues in the world.

Hmm, seems like the kind of question we should ask someone who was at the first Earth Day.

So how about Bill Nye? Yes, the legendary Bill Nye, who you may know as

the science guy, joins us today to talk about the beginnings of the special day and where

he thinks we should go from here.

Yeah, so I am so old, how old are you? I'm so old. I was at the very first Earth Day in Washington, D.C. I grew up in the city limits of Washington, D.C. The first Earth

Day was in 1970. I rode my bicycle, my Schwen Varsity bicycle to the Washington Monument and in those days okay I locked my bike

with a cable lock to the flagpole in front from the Washington Monument.

I mean, if you tried that now, you've been like, what is it,

three warning shots and the legs and you go to some black ops facility.

So it was a different era. It was Washington really used to be a small town.

And there was a stage and people were doing presentations about Earth Day and in those days

everybody's concern was pollution, You know, and now Earth Day pollution

is serious business, plastic trash of great concern, but now it's climate change.

Yeah, let's talk about climate change.

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