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World Environment Day was established in 1972 by the United Nations at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment (5–16 June 1972), that had resulted from discussions on the integration of human interactions and the environment. One year later, in 1973, the first WED was held with the theme "Only One Earth".
World Bicycle Day [75] June 3 World Environment Day: June 5 Solomon Memorial Day: June 5 World Oceans Day: June 8 Coral Triangle Day: June 9 International Lynx Day [76] [77] June 11 National Cougar Day [78] June 12 Global Wind Day: June 15 World Sea Turtle Day [79] June 16 World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought: June 17 World Croc Day ...
Some research indicates that climate change art is not particularly effective in changing peoples views, though art with a "hopeful" message gives people ideas for change. [13] Projecting a positive message, climate scientist Ed Hawkins said that "infiltrating popular culture is a means of triggering a change of attitude that will lead to mass ...
Thimmakka with members of Campus Friend of India on World Environment Day, 2015. Thimmakka's husband died in 1991. [17] Today, Thimmakka is invited to many afforestation programs in India. [8] She has also been involved in other social activity like constructing a tank to store rainwater for the annual fair held in her village.
Robert Morris, Observatorium, Netherlands. The growth of environmental art as a "movement" began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In its early phases it was most associated with sculpture—especially Site-specific art, Land art and Arte povera—having arisen out of mounting criticism of traditional sculptural forms and practices that were increasingly seen as outmoded and potentially out ...
World: Sea levels rise abruptly and massive inland flooding occurs due to glacier melt. Neolithic culture begins, end of most recent glaciation. First cave drawings of the Mesolithic period are made, with war scenes and religious scenes, beginnings of what became story telling, and metamorphosed into acting.
I. International Dark Sky Week; International Day for Biological Diversity; International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
Sketches can be made in any drawing medium. The term is most often applied to graphic work executed in a dry medium such as silverpoint, graphite, pencil, charcoal or pastel. It may also apply to drawings executed in pen and ink, digital input such as a digital pen, ballpoint pen, marker pen, water colour and oil paint.