EARTH DAY

EARTH DAY 


Happy Earth Day everybody!
Now you may be asking yourself, what exactly is earth day?

Earth Day takes place on April 22nd and the occasion is over forty years old. Earth Day stems back to when people stared to realise and recognise the importance of our planet. Earth Day offers us the chance to recognise what we can do to play our part in facing up to the challenge of global warming. It also highlights what each individual can do to play a part in building a clean world and use its resources without damaging our surroundings.

The idea of Earth Day came to founder Gaylord Nelson, a former U.S. Wisconsin Senator, after witnessing the ravages of the 1969 massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. He was inspired by the student anti-war movement, he came to realize that if he could use that energy to show the public about air and water pollution, it would then force environmental protection onto the national political agenda.
Senator Nelson announced the idea for a "National Teach-In On The Environment" to the national media and as a result on the 22nd of April, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment in massive coast-to-coast rallies. Since that time Earth Day as grown and helped create over 5,000 environmental groups in over 184 countries.




What can you do on Earth Day?
Make a compost heap
Recycle all your rubbish
Install a water butt for rainwater harvesting
Plant a tree
Sow some seeds
Don’t eat any meat
Walk instead of drive your car


Facts :

Each Aluminium drinks can you recycle saves enough energy to keep your TV running for three hours!
One in four vertebrate species (birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and fish) is on the verge of extinction or is now extinct
A plant-based diet is something that we can start on Earth Day addressing issues like justice in the workplace, torture, the health care crisis, deforestation, unjust imprisonment, overfishing, poverty, and corporate welfare.