Forty years after the first Earth Day (April 22), the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.
Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Earth Day Network is galvanizing millions who make personal commitments to sustainability.
Earth Day 2010 is a pivotal opportunity for individuals, corporations and governments to join together and create a global green economy. Join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day.
posted date :Monday, April 12, 2010
World Health Day 2010
With the campaign 1000 cities, 1000 lives, events will be organized worldwide during the week of 7 – 11 April 2010.
The global goals of the campaign are:
* 1000 cities: to open up public spaces to health, whether it be activities in parks, town hall meetings, clean-up campaigns, or closing off portions of streets to motorized vehicles.
* 1000 lives: to collect 1000 stories of urban health champions who have taken action and had a significant impact on health in their cities.
posted date :Monday, April 05, 2010
Earth Hour 2010
Whether you are an individual, a business, a school or a city, you can show your support for Earth Hour by turning off your lights at 8.30PM on March 27 wherever you are on the planet.
You can support Earth Hour by:
1. Turning off your lights at 8.30PM on March 27
2. Showing your support and adding yourself to our world map
3. Adding Earth Hour widgets, logos and banners to your blog or website to help spread the word
4. Talking about Earth Hour in your social network by updating your Facebook status, grabbing a Twibbon, tweeting about your support, and more
5. Get together with your friends and family, by hosting an Earth Hour party or holding your own candlelit affair
6. Rally your local council or community group to run an Earth Hour event for your community
7. Encourage your employer and workmates to take part in Earth Hour and make energy savings every day
8. Make an Earth Hour Lantern as a symbol of hope for the future
9. Be creative! Find a new way to mark Earth Hour and let us know all about it!
Every year, 1,500 cubic kilometres of wastewater are produced globally. While waste and wastewater can be reused productively for energy and irrigation, it usually is not. In developing countries 80 percent of all waste is being discharged untreated, because of lack of regulations and resources. And population and industrial growth add new sources of pollution and increased demand for clean water to the equation. Human and environmental health, drinking and agricultural water supplies for the present and future are at stake, still water pollution rarely warrants mention as a pressing issue.
To do something about that UN-Water has chosen Clean Water for a Healthy World as theme for World Water Day 2010. The overall goal of the World Water Day on 22 March 2010 campaign is to raise the profile of water quality at the political level so that water quality considerations are made alongside those of water quantity.
UNEP has responsibility for taking the lead in 2010, UN-Water announced at a session during the Stockholm World Water Week in August 2009.
posted date :Monday, March 08, 2010
World Wetlands Day 2010
World Wetlands Day falls on 2 February every year, and every year it presents us with a welcome opportunity to join together in celebrating the benefits that we all receive from wetlands, as well as to raise the awareness of our fellow citizens about the importance of these vital ecosystems for our common future. As we have done since the first World Wetlands Day back in 1997, we in the Ramsar Secretariat have focused on an appropriate particular theme and offered a range of materials, with financial support from the Danone Group, that we hope will help to animate WWD activities at all levels.
This year’s theme, Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, with the slogan “Caring for wetlands: an answer to climate change”, captures the sense of urgency we all feel about the need to address the potentially disastrous consequences of global climate change as quickly as possible, particularly in the wake of the Copenhagen meeting of the UNFCCC back in December, and it emphasizes our belief that the role of wetlands in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change must be central in all future debates about the way forward. Our colorful leaflet lays out many of the ways in which anticipated climate change may affect the health and productivity of the world’s wetlands, and it identifies some of the ways in which healthy wetlands contribute very significantly to potential solutions.
(Message from the Secretary General, Ramsar Convention)
posted date :Monday, February 01, 2010
Show your vote for a fair and effective deal in Copenhagen
The purpose of Show Your Vote (SYV for short) is to help organize the world's show of support for the Copenhagen Climate Conference, the COP15.
There are two different ways in which we are organizing this information. First, the platform itself allows any individual or organization anywhere in the world to show their support directly using the "Vote" tab. Second, we are working with all the organizations and campaigns out there across the planet that are helping to show support for COP15. This includes online campaigns, but also offline petitions, events, etc. basically any way that an individual out there in the real world is showing their support.
To this end, it's important to understand that you might see dramatic jumps in the number of votes, as we add more votes coming from offline sources and other online campaigns.
posted date :Sunday, December 13, 2009
Please help the world - United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009
The largest and most important UN climate change conference in history opened Monday, with diplomats from 192 nations warned that this could be the best, last chance for a deal to protect the world from calamitous global warming.
Scientists say without such an agreement, the Earth will face the consequences of ever-rising temperatures, leading to the extinction of plant and animal species, the flooding of coastal cities — about half of humanity lives with 100 miles (160 kilometers) of a coastline — more extreme weather events, drought and the spread of diseases.
"Please Help the World", film from the opening ceremony of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP15) in Copenhagen from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark. Shown on December 7, 2009 at COP15.
Chevy Chase, Jason Mraz, Join Celebs In Asking For Climate Action In Copenhagen
With the Copenhagen Climate Conference (12/7 - 12/18) kicking off next week, celebrities are throwing their support behind states in the US that are acting now to fight back against global warming.
The campaign aims to provide support for President Obama, leading into Copenhagen, based on the successes states have had in working to reduce carbon emissions. The short video, shot earlier this fall backstage at the EMA Awards, is sponsored by Environment America in partnership with Tck Tck Tck and the Environmental Media Association.
Artists including Chevy Chase, Jason Mraz, Alanis Morissette, Simon Baker, Amy Smart, Cedric the Entertainer, Olivia Wilde, Dana Delany, and more, make appearances. Check it out below!
