Earth Day is celebrated to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in in 1970 and is celebrated in many countries every year. This date is Spring in the Northern Hemisphere and Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. The United Nations celebrates an Earth Day each year on the March equinox, which is often March 20, a tradition which was founded by peace activist John McConnell in 1969.
A lot of programs get arranged all over the world. To find about the events & campaigns visit the link here.
Now don’t get confused between Earth Hour and Earth Day. Since I started raising awareness about environment and sustainability in 2009, I can across many individuals and businesses who get confused between these two events. Earth Hour falls in March and is celebrated by switching off lights for an hour in the evening from 8.30 to 9.30 pm local time worldwide. And Earth day is celebrated in April every year. But what really matters is if you take efforts regularly to protect our environment or not, because celebrating these two days for our planet is not enough. Our every action towards our planet and people count.
How to celebrate Earth Day?
Some quick ideas to celebrate Earth Day,
– Collect your household waste & recycle it. Learn here the correct techniques of recycling and find here UAE’s recycling guide.
– Clean up Community Park, beach, lakes, and rivers
– Plant trees & vegetation.
– Pledge some of our Green habits (click here)
– Spread the awareness of Earth Day
– Make every day earth day!
How to make every day Earth Day?
I would recommend checking here our beginners guide to sustainable living. But the first thing you can do for our Earth today is, stop creating plastic waste and start using reusable items. Plastic pollution is threatening the health of our oceans, the existence of wildlife mainly marine life. It also affects our food and human health as micro-plastic is now present in salt that we eat.
I have been attempting zero waste lifestyle since 2015, here are some important tips to reduce plastic waste. Also read here how can you start zero waste lifestyle.
Here are my top 10 alternatives over single-use, wasteful & plastic products in our daily use.