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John McConnell is the founder of the original Earth Day on the vernal equinox and the creator of the Earth Flag. He also founded a United Nations NGO, the Earth Society Foundation. Born in 1915, he was a visionary well ahead of his time who devoted his life to the three-part vision of "peace, justice, and the care of Earth." He said, "Peace is not the absence of war, but an honest understanding of another person's point of view." "Justice is not an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but equal sharing of the world's resources." "Care of Earth is both a right and a responsibility of all people. And without peace through understanding and social justice, the environmental movement is a one-legged stool." John McConnell was among the few seers who helped these concepts dawn with the Age of Aquarius. He laid the foundation for later speakers of peace and social justice to advance his ideas into the human paradigm of the Third Millennium. Today, his "peace is not the absence of war" phrase is quoted by many who usually also overlook the necessary "peace through understanding" part of his message. Until now -- until this book -- John McConnell has been an unsung hero, an unspotlighted star. John's destiny was evident as a boy. Born into a family of itinerant evangelists, he traveled the entire United States, witnessed miracles, and relished diversity. Ahead of his time, he created a biomass product from waste in the 1930s, espoused cooperative space exploration between the U.S. and Russia during the Cold War, and created the Earth Flag -- "a flag that's just for people" -- as a symbol of global unity. And he conceived the original Earth Day on the spring equinox -- not April 22 -- just as Americans were beginning to wake up to pollution's dire impact. Into his 90s, John persisted in his cause through telephone and Internet communications, trusting in prayer that people would "come together where they agree while leaving room for their differences" in order to "continu