Earth Day
Earth Day is celebrated all around the world on 22nd April to raise the support about our role for protecting the environment. It was first celebrated in the year 1970 it is now celebrated globally in more than 193 countries.
John Mcconnell was the first who proposed a day to honour the earth and the concept of peace in 1969 at a UNESCO conference in San Francisco. The Paris Agreement was signed by the united states, China and 120 other countries.
The Earth day symmetry was later sanctioned in an edict written by John Mcconnell and signed by the Secretary-General of that time U Thant at United Nations. After a month later a separate Earth Day was founded by an American politician and also an environmental Activist Gaylord Nelson in an Environmental Forum first held on April 22, 1970.
Many rallies were held on April 22 in Philadelphia, Los Angeles and in other cities of America as per to the Environmental protection Agencies Roads were blocked and that cause traffic for several hours on the street of Fifth Avenue Later Gaylord was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom award in acknowledging of his work.
An organization which was started by Denis Hayes, who was the original national coordinator in 1970, took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations but the Earth Day was mainly focused on the United States,
A various number of Communities and organizations celebrate the Earth week thus the entire week focused on many activities on the environmental issues that the world is facing.
Earth Day 1970
The first Earth Day is celebrated in more than two thousand colleges and universities and hardly ten thousand primary and secondary schools across the united state. More importantly, it took out more than 20 million Americans out into the spring sunshine in favour of environmental reform.
It is now celebrated in more than 192 countries and according to denis hayes, the Earth day is now the largest secular holiday in the world with more than 1 billion people who celebrate it every year.
Earth Day 1990 to 1999
After 1990 the Earth day activities gave a huge boost to the recycling efforts across the whole world and helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. On the 20th Anniversary of the Earth Day, the uses of Radio, Television and multi million dollar budget was set to promote the day.
There were two groups are made to sponsor the Earth Day events in 1990. One was named by The Earth Day 20 Foundation which was led by Edward Furia and the second was Earth day 1990 which was led by Denis Hayes, and the honorary chairman for both the group is the original founder of the Earth Day, Senator Gaylord Nelson.
The Earth Day 20 had a better grassroots approach to organizing and they were largely depending on groups like the National Toxics Campaign which was locally based group, and a coalition of 1,000 local groups concerned with industrial pollution which is Boston-based.
While Earth Day 1990 employed strategies including focus group testing, direct mail fundraising programme, and email marketing. The Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb who called from their base camp on Mount Everest connect to the Earth Day 20 Foundation on a live satellite phone call to pledge their support for world peace and a spotlight to environmental issues.
Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mt. Everest a few years earlier, and marked the primary time in history that mountaineers from the US, Soviet Union, and China had roped together to climb a mountain, let alone Mt. Everest.
Earth Day 2000 to 20019
In the year 2000, this was the first time the use of the Internet for promoting Earth Day as its principal organizing tool, and though it proved invaluable and extremely important nationally and internationally.
Result that the event ultimately reaches more than 5,000 environmental groups outside the United States, reaching hundreds of millions of people in a record 183 countries. Leonardo DiCaprio was the official host for the event, and more than 400,000 participants stood in the cold rain during the day.
To make Earth Day into a sustainable annual event rather than one that happened every 10 years, Nelson and Bruce Anderson, state of New Hampshire's lead organizers in 1990, formed Earth Day USA. Expanding on the momentum created by thousands of coordinators and organizers all around the world, Earth Day USA coordinated subsequent five Earth Day celebrations through 1995, including the launch of EarthDay.org.
Earth Day 2023
The Earth day 2023 will be the 51st Anniversary of Earth Day which will be celebrated include the activities like Great Global CleanUp, Citizen Science, Advocacy, Education, and art. It will educate more than one billion people around the people to grow and support the upcoming generation of environmental activists.
It's time that we should reimagine what we can do collectively to protect our global environment with activities and various events.
There are five new components for the Earth day for 2023 these are Citizen Science, Advocacy, Education, Volunteering and Events
Citizen Science- which is support Citizen Science and emerging technologies to draw the attention of one million people in the 50th anniversary using the latest technology to measure the air quality, water quality and pollution.
Advocacy- It main aim to influence people around the Globe to take action to save our planet. It will amplify direct links between technological innovation and inclusive climate prosperity.
Education- It will also aim to continue to work with teachers, students, innovators and thought leaders to educate and activate a new generation of environmental leaders around the world.
Volunteering- It is engaging volunteers across the globe for a month-long worldwide volunteer-driven program, “The Great Global Cleanup” and starting with cleanups for Earth Day 2019.
Events- The 50th anniversary of Earth day will manifest to have more than ten of thousands of rallies and community events in every country in the world, and large-scale signature events to take place in Washington, D.C., and other global capitals.
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