Hello my friends, you know Earth Day is coming for our Canadian friends in April, start saving your pennies now to help donate it to this great cause.We have many Canadain friends here at Adlandpro.
Celebrated every April 22, Earth Day is the largest, most celebrated environmental event worldwide.
More than 6 million Canadians join 500 million people in over 180
countries in staging events and projects to address local environmental
issues. Nearly every school child in Canada takes part in an Earth Day
activity.
Environmental challenges abound as our daily actions pollute and
degrade the fragile environment that humans and wildlife depend on to
survive.
What can we do? Earth Day provides the opportunity for positive actions and results.
First launched as an environmental awareness event in the United States
in 1970, Earth Day (April 22) is celebrated as the birth of the
environmental movement.
Earth Day is a powerful catalyst for change. The first Earth Day,
spearheaded by Wisconsin Governor Gaylord Nelson and Harvard University
student Denis Hayes, involved 20 million participants in teach-ins that
addressed decades of environmental pollution. The event inspired the US
Congress to pass clean air and water acts, and establish the
Environmental Protection Agency to research and monitor environmental
issues and enforce environmental laws.
In 1990, two million Canadians joined 200 million people in 141 nations
in celebrating the first International Earth Day. In many countries,
the global event brought pressure on heads of state to take part in the
UN Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro to address issues such as climate
change and the world wide loss of species.
In Canada, Earth Day has grown into Earth Week and even Earth Month to
accommodate the profusion of events and projects. They range from large
public events, such as Victoria’s Earth Walk (5,000 participants),
Edmonton’s Earth Day Festival at Hawrelak Park (30,000 participants),
and Oakville, Ontario’s Waterways Clean-up (2,000 participants) to the
thousands of small, private events staged by schools, employee groups
and community groups.
Want to get involved? Need some help?
Our programs and resources will help you organize a successful
activity, event or project in your organization or community.
http://www.earthday.ca.pub/home.php
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