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Earth Hour is a worldwide movement organized by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). The event is held annually, encouraging the individuals, communities, and businesses to give an hour for Earth, and additionally marked by landmarks and businesses switching off non-essential electric lights, for one hour from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m., usually on the last Saturday of March, as a symbol of commitment to the ...
World Cleanup Day [124] September 16, 2023, Third Saturday in September National Cleanup Day [125] September 18, 2021, Third Saturday in September International Red Panda Day [126] Third Saturday of September Zero Emissions Day [127] September 21 Car Free Day: September 22 World Rhino Day [128] September 22 Ecological Debt Day (Earth Overshoot Day)
The goal of Earth Day 2014 was to dramatically personalize the massive challenges surrounding global climate change and weave that into both Earth Day 2014 and the five-year countdown to Earth Day 2020, the 50th anniversary. It was an opportunity to unite people worldwide into a common cause and call for action. [110]
For this year’s Call to Earth Day we want to focus on the crucial connection between cities and wilderness. ... On November 28, 2023, CNN’s third annual Call to Earth Day, Our Shared Home ...
John McConnell was born on March 22, 1915, in Davis City, Iowa, United States.He was the son of a Pentecostal preacher [9] and traveling doctor. [6] His first interest in the Earth began in 1939 while partnering with Albert Nobell, a chemist, in the Nobell Research Laboratory in Los Angeles that built a factory for the manufacture of plastics. [6]
Themed “Our Shared Home,” this year’s Call to Earth Day focuses on bridging the gap between humans and wildlife. Over 200,000 participants, including 235 schools, took part this year.
The year 2023 was recorded as the hottest year on record. The global average temperature increased by 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit (1.498 degrees Celsius) above the pre-industrial revolution average.
A variation of this analogy instead compresses Earth's 4.6 billion year-old history into a single day: While the Earth still forms at midnight, and the present day is also represented by midnight, the first life on Earth would appear at 4:00 am, dinosaurs would appear at 10:00 pm, the first flowers 10:30 pm, the first primates 11:30 pm, and ...