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June 5th is World Environment Day!

L.J

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G'day everyone :D

This June 5th is World Environment Day! and I thought I'd start a thread now to give you all a heads up for those of you who would like to plan something.

First of all you might want to check out the following link:


The site is connected to the UN, so you can change it to your language if English isn't your mother language ;)

This year's theme is CO2 Kick the Habit! towards a low carbon economy




Here are 80 ways on how you can celebrate June 5th:
A
Adopt a ‘green’ way of life
Art made of recycled materials
Auctions to benefit an environmental project
Award presentations for environmental competitions
Awareness campaigns
B
Bicycle parades/races
Broadcast of public service announcements (TV and Radio)
Buy a fuel-efficient car
C
Calculate your carbon footprint
Carpools
Celebrity support
Clean-up campaigns
Competitions (banner, drawing, essay, painting, poster, poetry)
Conferences on the environment
D
Debates on environment issues
Dedicate your blog to World Environment Day on 5 June
Distribute leaflets, brochures and posters
Donate to an environmental cause
E
Environmental education programmes in schools
Excursions to nature sites
Exhibitions (drawings, posters, photos, paintings)
F
Fairs
Festivals
Film festivals on the environment
G
Give a gift membership of an environmental organisation
Guidelines to community-based environmental activities
H
Hoist banners at major road intersections
Help local environmental groups organise WED events
I
Inform all your friends about WED
Involve various partners (NGOs, ministries, youth groups, celebrities, private sector)
Issue First Day Covers (stamps)
J
Join an environmental group
Join UNEP’s carbon neutral network
Join the Billion Tree Campaign
K
Keep your neighbourhood clean
Kick-start an environmental campaign
Kick the CO2 habit!
Know your rights
L
Launch of government environment policies, books, reports
Lobby local authorities to adopt sound environmental policies
M
March for the environment
Media coverage and activities
N
Never litter
O
Offset your emissions
Organic farming/cooking
Organize a WED themed event in your neighbourhood
P
Parades
Performances (plays, songs, poetry)
Plant a tree
Plastic bags: avoid them!
Promotional material (t-shirts, stickers, bookmarks)
Puppet shows for children with an environmental message
Q
Quizzes related to the theme for schools, youth groups, company staff, etc…
R
Rainwater harvesting
Rallies
Ratify international environmental conventions
Reduce, re-use, recycle
Rehabilitate natural habitats
Replace your light-bulbs with energy saving ones
S
Save paper
Seminars
Sort rubbish
Speeches
Sponsorship from private sector
Sports activities
Switch off stand-by TV and computer
T
Take action
T-shirts for WED
U
Use sustainable modes of transportation (walking, jogging, cycling, skating, carpool)
V
Vehicle emission monitoring
Vermicomposting
Visits to botanical gardens and national parks
Volunteer for organizations such as Clean Up the World
W
Waste less!
Workshops
Write plays, poems, songs
Write letters to civic leaders, members of parliament, government and newspapers
X
Xchange ideas
Xpect environmental responsibility
Y
Youth-led activities
Z
Zero emissions
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And what am I doing you ask? :D



I have my Out & About class that day and I'm going to run a fun/informative activity with them. They will be given information about the dangers of the polar ice caps melting and they will have to present the information as a news report :giggle: They'll get to act it out and everything :lol:
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Today is the day :)

Walk to work, catch public transport, don't buy anything that comes in styrofoam, recycle that bottle of drink you had for lunch annnd turn your lights off when you're not in the room ;)


Come on folks let's be green :D
 
Thank you for posting this L.J.

I was going to take the bus but guess that won't start until next week. Every day should be green.
 
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