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Issues such as pollution, climate change, deforestation, and human overpopulation have drastically changed the way the world works. Because of the significance of these issues, the United Nations created World Environment Day to help educate people about the consequences of human activity.
World Environment Day is a holiday all about teaching people about environmental issues, giving people the opportunity to change the habits they have that are affecting the environment and work towards change.
History of World Environment Day
World Environment Day is an important example of how people should care for the environment, raising awareness of the increasing levels of pollution, human overpopulation, and climate change.
The holiday was established in 1972 by the United Nations General Assembly at the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment. Inspired to help create change in the world, the first celebration of the holiday occurred two years later, becoming a huge success.
Since then, it has grown to become a global platform for discussions about the environment, spreading awareness of the effects of human activity. Since then, World Environmental Day is celebrated in over 100 countries and each year, a theme is chosen to help draw attention to a particular concern.
Hosted by a wide variety of sponsors, World Environment Day presses environmental change through education, hoping to inspire action in people all over the world. Each country hosts events talking about the environmental problems specifically affecting that country.
On this day, people register for activities sponsored by the holiday and take part in humanitarian and environmental activities, such as helping third-world countries, planting trees to regrow forests, cleaning up beaches and side roads.
The ultimate goal of this holiday is to inspire long-term change, where people make the choice to take part in changing their habits, such as changing to LED light-bulbs, recycling and conserving energy.
World Environment Day has grown massively over the years. There are 143 countries that participate in this day annually. There is a new theme that is assigned to this day every year, giving governments, celebrities, communities, NGOs, and corporations direction when it comes to different events they can plan and ways that they can raise awareness for this important day.
Some of the different themes that have occurred over the years include the likes of “Connecting People to Nature – in the city and on the land, from the poles to the equator,” “Beat Plastic Pollution,” “Time for Nature,”, and “Many Species. One Planet. One Future.” Every year, there is also a host nation for the event. For example, India hosted World Environment Day in 2011, with Brazil taking on the honor in 2012. In 2019, China held the day, with the theme being “Beat Air Pollution.” The 2020 version of World Environment Day was hosted by Colombia in partnership with Germany.
thanks, Michele, Picture Coordinator
WORD OF THE DAY
barometer
MEANING:noun:
1. A device for determining atmospheric pressure in predicting weather.
2. Something used as a gauge or as an indicator of change.
3. A standard for measuring something.
ETYMOLOGY:From Greek baro- (pressure) + -meter (measure). Earliest documented use: 1666.
USAGE:“Since the Vietnam War, the US military has shied away from body counts as a barometer of success, but Lt. General Sean MacFarland, the commander of the US-led coalition in Iraq, estimated in August that forty-five thousand fighters had been ‘taken off the battlefield’ in the Islamic State.”
Robin Wright; After the Islamic State; The New Yorker; Dec 12, 2016.
“If history is a barometer, this will get much stormier and play out over quite a while.”
Dan K. Thomasson; Watergate Portends More Troubles; Daily Record (Wooster, Ohio); May 24, 2017.
I guess that he is comfy...
1. A device for determining atmospheric pressure in predicting weather.
2. Something used as a gauge or as an indicator of change.
3. A standard for measuring something.
Robin Wright; After the Islamic State; The New Yorker; Dec 12, 2016.
“If history is a barometer, this will get much stormier and play out over quite a while.”
Dan K. Thomasson; Watergate Portends More Troubles; Daily Record (Wooster, Ohio); May 24, 2017.
TODAY'S ARTIST thanks, Natalie
the momma puffins are nesting....
IDIOM OF THE DAYWhat does 'butt naked' mean?
Meaning:
If someone is butt naked, they have no clothes on at all, often when they can be seen.
drone captures NL iceberg breaking up near shore
thanks, Patsy
(Not So) TOTALLY USELESS FACTS OF THE DAY
In the 1960's, the United States launched Project Acoustic Kitty. They thought cats could be trained to be good spies. It took $20 million to learn what most cat owners already know… cats don't like being told what to do. They do their own thing. Project Acoustic Kitty failed.
In the early 1900's the store Marshall Field's had "Fired Men" on their payroll. What are Fired Men, you ask? Fired men were people hired specifically with the purpose of being fired. When a customer complained and someone needed to be fired, one of the "Fired Men" would be chosen.
Hundreds of years ago, farmers painted their barns with linseed oil to help seal the wood and keep it from rotting. Rust was mixed with the oil to keep fungi and moss from growing on the wood. This turned the oil red. Barns today are still painted red in honor of that tradition.
Today is crazy day - yeah!!!YOUR CALL by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent
Sore back? Joints?
Sore back? Joints?
PLEASE let us out to go play.....
COFFEE thanks, Ella
back in the day, grandma had these dishes and we inherited them....
PICTURES OF THE DAY
Key Monastery is a monastery belonging to the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, located at an elevation of 4,166 m (13,668 ft) on a hill rising above the Spiti valley in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. Said to have been founded in the 11th century, it is the largest monastery in Spiti, housing hundreds of monks. This view shows the monastery in winter, overlooking the snow-covered Spiti river valley with the Himalayas in the background.
New Zealand
Into Infinity
playing outside means more bath times
knitthanks, Marilyn
knit
thanks, Paige
knit
knit
KNIT PATTERNS OF THE DAY thanks, Valerie, Canadian Correspondent
KNIT PATTERNS OF THE DAY
Herringbone Plant Pot Cozy
crochetthanks, ClaraMy Garden Cardi
crochet
Cushion Cover Design
PANTRY RECIPE thanks, Debbie
CROCKPOT RECIPE thanks, Riley
Both vegetarian and vegan diets may provide health benefits, including reduced body weight, lower cholesterol levels, and decreased risk of cardiovascular disease. However, it is important for vegetarians and vegans to ensure that they are meeting all of their nutritional requirements.
SWEETS RECIPE thanks, Sandy
ADULT COLORING
In How Many Hours Will the Man Catch the Snake?
Answer: 2 hours
Explanation:
Let’s assume the breadth of the garden to be ‘B’ and its length to be ‘2B’.
Now, let’s say that the snake starts from one end of the length of the garden, and the man starts chasing it from the other end of the breadth of the garden.
Since the snake is moving along the length of the garden, its distance from the man will decrease at a rate of 30 cm per hour. Similarly, since the man is moving along the breadth of the garden, his distance from the snake will decrease at a rate of 60 cm per hour.
Let’s assume that the man catches the snake after ‘T’ hours. At that point, the distance covered by the man along the breadth of the garden would be equal to the distance covered by the snake along the length of the garden. Mathematically,
60T = 2B … (1) (since the man covers the breadth of the garden) and 30T = length of the garden covered by the snake
Since the length of the garden is 2B, the length covered by the snake would be 2B – the distance remaining to reach the man (since they meet at the same point). Mathematically,
30T = 2B – (2B – B) = B
Substituting the value of 2B from equation (1) in the above equation, we get:
30T = 60T/2 T = 2
Therefore, the man will catch the snake in 2 hours.
CRAFTS thanks, Helen
Fabric Photo Transfer Notebook
CHILDREN'S CORNER thanks, Anita
PUZZLE
WORD SEARCH
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SUDOKU .. hard
solution:
Who Was Your First Celebrity Crush?
QUOTE thanks, Michele
Hope he enjoys it for a long time...
Sign the NASA message…
get on board to Jupiter!
Your name will fly on the Europa Clipper spacecraft as it travels 1.8 billion miles on its voyage to Jupiter’s moon Europa.
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