June 5 is World Environment Day and this year the theme is Your Planet Need You – Unite to combat Climate Change. How can you help to change the environment?
Pesticide residue has been found in regions as far away as the Antarctica, rubbish (tin containers, tins, food scraps, medicine, human waste, used oxygen cylinders, plastic) litters the approaches to Mt. Everest, the Amazon jungle is shrinking , national parks have no sudden dangers, our seas are dying, the air is grossly polluted … the list goes on. And at home, we don’t worry about using multi-colored chemical concoctions to leave the toilet sparkling clean (when there are environment friendly alternatives such as vinegar) or pesticide-laced insect repellents. We find using public transport a trouble and hardly give a thought to getting our vehicles checked for emission control … These are just some of the examples of how are hurting the earth.
World Environment Day or Earth Day?
The equinoctial Earth Day, also International Earth Day, is celebrated on the vernal equinox to mark the beginning of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. The United Nations celebrates Earth Day each year on the vernal equinox (around March 21). There is also Earth Day (April 22), which is to highlight popular (American) political support for an environmental agenda. And finally, the United Nations, under the U.N. Environment Programme, has observed World Environment Day ( sometimes called Earth Day) on June 5 since 1972.
Unite to fight
The day when we are supposed think about the state of the environment is fast approaching. Observed every year on June 5, World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to make it clear that people are the key to looking at and providing answers to environmental issues. The theme for this year is “Your Planet Needs You- UNite to combat Climate change”. It also looks at fighting poverty and forest management. This year’s host is Mexico, which is playing an important role in the “Billion Tree Campaign” being planned by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). In this plan, Mexico plans to plant at least 25 percent of the seven billion trees. So, some steps are being taken to help save the environment. The World Environment Day (WED) alphabet (This has been released by the UNEP). Many of them are easy to implement, so go ahead and help make things easier for Planet Earth.
Join up
Are you interested in community activities like tree planting, poster contest, open house quiz and screening a documentary on climate change and so on?
Then visit the following link I have given below
http://www.unep.org/wed/2009/english/content/asia_pacific.asp
This year will see the launch of a plan called the “Climate Heroes” – individuals who will take up projects to show us the way of how to reduce our carbon footprint, fight waste and the need to recycle, and highlight the importance of planting trees.
Their websites are:
(Some of these will be tracked on Google Earth, as they involve adventure)
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