Expo ’74’s big environmental legacy continues to inspire conservation of the region’s natural assets

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In December 1973, Spokane held a massive recycling drive and featured the cans collected in a Christmas tree.

The “butterfly effect” describes the phenomenon that even small actions can have vast consequences. The effect was first described in 1972 by meteorologist Edward Lorenz, who discovered a minuscule alteration could drastically change the results of his weather simulation. He used the metaphor of a butterfly’s gently fluttering wings having the power to spur a distant tornado.

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