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==Career and activism== Einhorn was a speaker at the first [[Earth Day]] event in [[Philadelphia]] in 1970<ref name=":0">{{Cite magazine|title=Behind the Photo That Made People Think Earth Day Was Founded by a Convicted Killer|url=https://time.com/5242190/earth-day-founder/|access-date=2020-12-06|magazine=Time|archive-date=November 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125025157/https://time.com/5242190/earth-day-founder/|url-status=live}}</ref> and later claimed to have been instrumental in creating and launching the event,<ref name=compost/> but event organizers dispute his account.<ref>{{cite web | publisher = AMGOT | url = http://www.amgot.org/einhorn/eday.htm | type = Letter | author = Earth Week Committee of Philadelphia | title = Einhorn | access-date = 2010-04-25 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131017152905/http://www.amgot.org/einhorn/eday.htm | archive-date = 2013-10-17 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/04/22/ira-einhorn-not-founder-earth-day/|title=No, Ira Einhorn Didn't Found Earth Day|date=22 April 2015|publisher=phillymag.com|access-date=May 2, 2016|archive-date=November 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111202340/https://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/04/22/ira-einhorn-not-founder-earth-day/|url-status=live}}</ref> Einhorn served as an instructor of English at [[Temple University]] during the 1964β1965 academic year, although his contract was not renewed after he conceded his "contempt for the academic world" and boasted of proffering "straight answers about the delights and dangers" of [[cannabis (drug)|cannabis]] and [[LSD]] to students in an interview.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Levy|first=Steven|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEVIDQAAQBAJ&q=temple|title=The Unicorn's Secret: Murder in the Age of Aquarius|date=2016-11-08|publisher=Open Road Media|isbn=978-1-5040-4213-0|language=en|access-date=December 20, 2021|archive-date=April 25, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230425010343/https://books.google.com/books?id=YEVIDQAAQBAJ&q=temple|url-status=live}}</ref> He also was a resident fellow at the [[Harvard University|Harvard]] [[Harvard Institute of Politics|Institute of Politics]] during the autumn 1978 semester.<ref name="Time"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Drucker |first1=Linda S. |title=Institute Fellow Einhorn: Yippie Turned Teacher |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1978/11/4/institute-fellow-einhorn-yippie-turned-teacher/ |access-date=6 April 2020 |work=[[The Crimson]] |date=4 November 1978 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200406110221/https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1978/11/4/institute-fellow-einhorn-yippie-turned-teacher/ |archive-date=6 April 2020 |language=en |quote=He is a fellow at the Institute of Politics and sleeps in a sleeping bag on the floor of his room in North House. He is Ira Einhorn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ira Einhorn|url=https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/ira-einhorn|access-date=2021-04-06|website=The Institute of Politics at Harvard University|language=en|archive-date=October 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014022138/https://iop.harvard.edu/fellows/ira-einhorn|url-status=live}}</ref>
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