Earth Day 2011   The Earth Day being celebrated this year on April 22, 2011.and observed on April 22 each year by more than 500 million people and several  governments in 175 countries.  The aim to observe the Earth Day is to create awareness of environmental issues and to  appreciate Earth's environment. Earth Day is a day for visioning how we humans want to interact with our mother planet. In India the 2011 theme for Earth day is ‘Sustainable Water Resources: Rural and Urban Challenges’. In the United States this year Earth Day is themed after A Billion Acts of Green according to earthday.org.    Earth Day 2010      The Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 2010.in all most all countries.  "May there only be peaceful and cheerful Earth Days to come for our beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life." -- said the United Nations Secretary-General U Thant. Earth Day 2010 coincided with the World People's Conference on Climate Change, held in Cochabamba, and with the International Year of Biodiversity.    Earth Day  to raise awareness   Earth Day 2010 was coincided with the World People's Conference on Climate Change,  held in Cochabamba, Bolivia,  with the International Year of Biodiversity. Earth Day raise awareness about our environmental pollution, climate change and Global Warming. Now Earth Week activities  interactive with participants countries and NGOs connecting and cooperating worldwide. Earth Day has become the largest secular holiday in the world, celebrated in 175 countries. Earth Day is a day for visioning how we minimize the Earths pollution, adopt more renewable energy, control our ever- growing pressure of 6.7 billion population and grow more plants and trees. Earth Day is an important time to remind ourselves of the dwindling resources, accumulating waste, pollution, and ecosystem loss and boost our economy at the same time.   On the Earth day we must  think about the kind of world we want to create for future generations. On the earth day we must think about the energy efficiency for businesses and people across our country and around the planet. Renewable energy sources as an alternative to burning coal for energy as burning coal is by far the largest source of global warming. On Earth day we hope that science and technology can be harnessed to protect the Earth and sustain the diversity and well-being of the life it supports

Our Earth     On Earth day 2011     The extraordinary journey of the Plastiki, a boat built from over 12,000 recycled plastic bottles, as David De Rothschild attempts to sail across the Pacific from San Francisco to Sydney.      Earth Day is an important time to remind ourselves of the dwindling resources, accumulating waste, pollution, and ecosystem loss.

Earth Day History   In 1970 smog choked major U.S. cities and toxic waste flooded rivers. That same year nearly 20 million Americans participated in events on April 22, spearheaded by Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, to draw attention to the environmental issues plaguing the planet and human health. Named Earth Day, April 22 has remained a time to celebrate restoration and stand up for the planet.   Gaylord Nelson, a United States Senator from Wisconsin, called for an environmental teach-in, or Earth Day, to be held on April 22, 1970. Over 20 million people participated that year. The first Earth Day had participants and celebrants in two thousand colleges and universities, roughly ten thousand primary and secondary schools, and hundreds of communities across the United States. April 22, 1970 was also the 100th birthday of Vladimir Lenin.  April 22 is also the birthday of Julius Sterling Morton, the founder of Arbor Day, a national tree-planting holiday started in 1872.   Earth Day activities in 1990 gave a huge boost to recycling efforts worldwide and helped pave the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Earth Day USA coordinated the next five Earth Day celebrations through 1995, including the launch of EarthDay.org. Following the 25th Anniversary in 1995, the coordination baton was handed to Earth Day Network. In 2000, Earth Day had the Internet to help link activists around the world. By the time April 22 came around, 5,000 environmental groups around the world were on board, reaching out to hundreds of millions of people in a record 184 countries.   Earth Day 2007 was one of the largest Earth Days to date, with an estimated billion people participating in the activities in thousands of places like Kiev, Ukraine; Caracas, Venezuela; Tuvalu; Manila, Philippines; Togo; Madrid, Spain; London; and New York.    On March 20, 2008, with  the ceremony at the United Nations, ceremonies were also held in New Zealand, and bells were sounded in California, Vienna, Paris, Lithuania, Tokyo and many other locations. The equinox Earth Day at the UN is organized by the Earth Society Foundation.    Earth Day 2010 in India    The 40th anniversary of Earth Day in 2010 was observed in 17 big cities around India including New Delhi, Kolkata, Hydrabad, Mumbai through Commemorative Mother Earth Concerts, Community Service and tree planting project.In Delhi, a group of students have launched a campaign to save the polluted river, Yamuna that flows through Delhi. Unfortunately, it carries untreated domestic water and industrial wastes of the city. The Ministry of Environment and Forests in a bid to arrest river pollution, has undertaken measures to clean the river under an action plan (Yamuna Action Plan-YAP). Students in other parts of the country have also organised awareness programmes and street plays to spread the awareness. Activities like planting trees, cleaning nearby lakes and rivers are undertaken in full zeal.   The Ministry of Earth Sciences has proposed to celebrate the event by organizing activities on the theme -“ Save Earth (covering land, ocean and atmosphere)”.Various other topics  such as - Green house effect, Ozone hole, its causes and effects, Global warming, Sustainable use of natural resources, Impact of Climate change on Indian monsoon, Deforestation and afforestation its significance, Ocean resources ( Living & non living resources ), Energy resources (conventional & non-conventional energy resources), Desalination, Tsunami Early Warning System, Ocean Technology, Marine instruments, Polar Science and Earthquake studies have also been proposed for the day’s celebration.    Google celebrates Earth Day 2011   Google celebrates Earth Day, water prime concern for India while in US it is A Billion Acts of Green  April 22nd is celebrated as Earth Day and as always Google in its very own special way reminds us all that today is Earth Day with a beautiful Google doodle depicting mother Earth as a green planet with flora and fauna; clear water and blue sky. This is not just a doodle but the exact picture of how our only home, planet Earth should look like when we will hand it over to our children and their children. The elements of the 2011 Earth Day campaign includes; The Canopy Project, Green Schools, Women and Green Economy, Athletes for the Earth, Creating Climate Wealth and Arts for the Earth.

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