Earth Day April 22 2011 trailer. The Secret - Planet Earth HD. Chimpanzee - Disney Nature Series - 2012 HD Movie Trailer. Earth Day 2012 - the 42nd Anniversary. More than one billion people in 192 countries took part in the 42nd Anniversary of Earth Day.
From Cairo to Beijing, Melbourne to Rome, Rio to St. Louis, communities everywhere stood united in their effort to Mobilize the Earth™. Together we reached A Billion Acts of Green® and demonstrated the breadth of support for strong, coordinated action to deal with our most pressing environmental challenges. Next up: the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. Building on the momentum from Earth Day, we must call upon world leaders at the conference to act now to embrace a sustainable future.
Join the movement and add your voice to the campaign! Earth Day 2012, Earth Day 2013 and further. Earth Day 2012. Earth Day 2012: History of Earth Day. How the First Earth Day Came About By Senator Gaylord Nelson, Founder of Earth Day What was the purpose of Earth Day?
How did it start? These are the questions I am most frequently asked. Actually, the idea for Earth Day evolved over a period of seven years starting in 1962. I continued to speak on environmental issues to a variety of audiences in some twenty-five states. After President Kennedy's tour, I still hoped for some idea that would thrust the environment into the political mainstream. Earth Hour 2010. Beginning in Sydney, Australia three years ago, Earth Hour has grown into a global observance.
States, large organizations and individual people observed Earth Hour 2010 on Saturday March 27th, as homes, office towers and landmarks turned off their lights for an hour starting at 8.30 pm local time to raise awareness about climate change and the threat from rising greenhouse gas emissions. Collected here are a series of before-and-after photographs from this year - which (starting with the second one below) will fade between "on" and "off" when clicked. [See also: last year] This effect requires javascript to be enabled. (26 photos total) These two photos show Malaysia's landmark Petronas Twin Towers before, left, and after being turned off its lights to mark Earth Hour in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Saturday, March 27, 2010.
(AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin) Earth Day 2009. Earth Day 2010. Yesterday was Earth Day, since 1970 it's been a day set aside to remember and appreciate the Earth's environment, and all of our roles within it.
As a way to help appreciate and observe our environment, I've collected 39 recent images here, each a glimpse into some aspect of the world around us, how it affects and sustains us, and how we affect it. Here's hoping everyone had a great Earth Day yesterday. (39 photos total) The most detailed true-color image of the entire Earth created to date. Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer of our planet. Much of the information contained in this image came from a single remote-sensing device-NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS.