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Showing posts with label World Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World Day. Show all posts
Earth Day Quotes & Theme
Earth Day Quotes
We have listed below some
inspirational and meaningful quotes on Earth Day. All the listed quotes are
said by the famous personalities of the world on the earth day. Such well said
quotes inspire us to take care of the beautiful earth and conserve this natural
property.
“One billion people in 175 countries
will mark Earth Day. That puts tea parties in perspective, doesn’t it?” – Greg
Dworkin
“In celebration of this Earth Day, I
encourage all Members of the House to support legislation aimed at investing in
the improvement of water quality in our Nation’s lakes, rivers, streams and
estuaries.” – Jerry Costello
How World Earth Day is celebrated
How World Earth Day is celebrated
People from all over the world
celebrate earth day with great enthusiasm and interest on each 22nd of April since 1970 to save the
natural assets of their earth. More than 20 million Americans took part in the
event celebration and make the streets, parks and auditoriums busy in order to
display their themes role based on the public health, environmental issues,
industrialization, deforestation and so many. Students from thousands of
colleges, universities and other educational institutions actively take part in
the protest against increasing earth issues such as the day to day environment
deterioration, air and water pollution, ozone layer deterioration,
industrialization, deforestation and etc to prevent the oil spills, set up of
polluting factories, power plants, use and production of pesticides and etc.
Various steps have been taken by the
governments of many countries towards the safety of earth by implementing the
variety of legal rules. A group of environmental leaders organize various
events and campaigns to celebrate the earth day. A big crowd of the people gets
together from 141 countries to solve the environmental issues by implementing
variety of useful measures. People take part in demonstrating the theme of
clean environment in order to build a clean and healthy world to welcome new
generations. The aim of celebrating the world earth day is to inspire the
public for making better earth environment.
Why April 22 is celebrated as Earth Day?
Why April 22 is celebrated as Earth Day?
Our Earth is the only planet in the
Universe where life is possible till date. It is very necessary to maintain the
natural assets of the earth in order to continue the life on the earth. In the
rush of the crowd, the most intelligent creature of the God called human is
slowly losing its humanity and forgot to take care of the planet that gave it
life and started using its resources very ruthlessly. The 22nd of April has been marked as an Earth
Day to make the human race get aware about the importance of their planet.
A USA senator from Wisconsin, Gaylord
Nelson had founded the day to make the people aware about day to day increasing
rate of the industrialization as well as the careless attitude of the people
living on the earth. The step was taken by him to promote the idea of natural
balance among people as well as encourage them for respecting the assets of the
planet. It is very necessary to take care of the environmental issues to stay
healthy and alive as cruel people have mercilessly utilized its resources and
depleted its life supporting resources over the centuries.
World Earth Day 2016 Information and History
World Earth Day 2016
World Health Day 2016 would be
celebrated by the people all over the world on 22nd of April, at Friday.
There is reason behind the title of
this celebration as “Earth Day”. It was suggested by number of people in 1969
and the idea came with “birthday” as Earth day (rhyming word of birthday).
World Earth Day Information and History
World Earth Day is celebrated every
year as an annual event by the people all across the world on 22nd of April in order to increase the
awareness among people about the environment safety as well as to demonstrate
the environmental protection measures. First time, the world earth day was
celebrated in the year 1970 and then started celebrating annually on global
basis by almost 192 countries.
World Earth Day observance was
started to celebrate as an annual event to get national support in order to
better take care of the environmental safety by solving its issues. In 1969,
there was a peace activist of the San Francisco named John McConnell who
actively involved in starting this event and proposed a day to get together for
the environmental safety. John McConnell had chosen this event to be celebrated
in the spring equinox on 21st of March in 1970 whereas United
States Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson had chosen this event to be celebrated
on 22nd of April in 1970.
They had contacted the people to join
this event to get together for solving their environmental issues for better
future. During the first time celebration of the earth day millions of people
shown their interest and participated to understand the motto of the event.
Instead of deciding one date for the celebration of the earth day, it has been
started celebrating on both of the dates. Generally, the earth day event
celebration starts with the common practice of new trees plantation in the
required areas worldwide.
For founding the earth day
celebration date on 22nd of April, United States Wisconsin
Senator Gaylord Nelson was honored later with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Award for his participation in great job. Later, the 22nd of April as an Earth Day was focused
globally by the original national coordinator, Denis Hayes in the year 1990
among almost 141 nations. Most of the earth day communities celebrate it for
the whole week with the name Earth Week to focus on many environmental issues.
In this way, 22nd of April 1970 has been marked as the
anniversary of the modern environmental movement.
Earth Day 1970 was established to
raise the public awareness for self consciousness, other living organisms,
controlling the anti-war protest movement as well as keeping the environmental
issues in front of the people. A big tragedy behind establishing the event of
earth day celebration by the founder Gaylord Nelson (a U.S. Senator from
Wisconsin) was tragedy of the massive oil spill in the Santa Barbara,
California in 1969. This tragedy led the Gaylord Nelson towards enhancing the
public consciousness for the air, water and soil pollution as well as
implementing the environmental protection measures.
World Health Day Themes
- The theme of World Health Day 1950 was “Know your Health Services”.
- The theme of World Health Day 1951 was “Health for your Child and World’s Children”.
- The theme of World Health Day 1952 was “Healthy surroundings make Healthy people”.
- The theme of World Health Day 1953 was “Health is Wealth”.
- The theme of World Health Day 1954 was “The Nurse: Pioneer of Health”.
- The theme of World Health Day 1955 was “Clean water means better Health”.
- The theme of World Health Day 1956 was “Destroy disease carrying Insects”.
- The theme of World Health Day 1957 was “Food for All”.
World Health Day 2016
World Health Day
The World Health Day is celebrated by the people all across the world every year on 7th of April under the leadership of World Health Organization to draw the mass people attention towards the importance of global health. World Health Assembly was held first time in the year 1948 in Geneva by the WHO where it was decided to celebrate the World Health Day annually on 7th of April. It was first celebrated worldwide in the year 1950 as the World Health Day. Varieties of events related to the particular theme are organized on the international and national level by the WHO.
