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Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EARTHDAY.ORG (formerly Earth Day Network) [ 1 ] including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. [ 2 ][ 1 ][ 3 ] In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San ...
If you’re looking forward to spring, you’re not alone. But it’s not just Easter and Mother’s Day that you might want to pencil in on your calendar—Earth Day falls on April 22 this year ...
09: Third Friday in September. World Cleanup Day [135] 09: September 16, 2023, Third Saturday in September. National Cleanup Day [136] 09: September 18, 2021, Third Saturday in September. International Red Panda Day [137] 09: Third Saturday of September. Zero Emissions Day [138] 09-21: September 21.
The Procession of the Species Celebration is an annual, community arts-based Earth Day celebration in Olympia, Washington. It is the largest annual Earth Day celebration in the Puget Sound area and Cascadia bioregion . The procession features a parade of costumed individuals and groups, non-motorized floats, and puppets with animal and element ...
When the City of Savannah and the Lite Foot Environmental Foundation host their celebration of the 54th Earth Day from 4 to 7:30 p.m., Friday in Daffin Park, organizers are looking to make a ...
Earth Hour is a worldwide movement organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The event is held annually, encouraging the individuals, communities, and businesses to give an hour for Earth, and additionally marked by landmarks and businesses switching off non-essential electric lights, for one hour from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., usually on the last Saturday of March, as a symbol of commitment to the ...
Pachamama is a goddess revered by the indigenous peoples of the Andes. In Inca mythology she is an "Earth Mother" type goddess, [1] and a fertility goddess who presides over planting and harvesting, embodies the mountains, and causes earthquakes. She is also an ever-present and independent deity who has her own creative power to sustain life on ...
14 February 1990: the Voyager 1 space probe took the Pale Blue Dot photograph of Earth from a record distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU), as part of that day's Family Portrait series of images of the Solar System. Earth appears as a tiny dot within deep space: the blueish-white speck almost halfway up the brown ...