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A registered charity, the BBC Wildlife Fund, was established to direct funds raised by the programmes to conservation charities in the field to help save the featured animals, and other species, from extinction. Saving Planet Earth enabled the Fund to raise £1 million on the night, a total which had almost doubled by the end of 2010. [1]
Mother Nature intimidates her children to doing as Mrs. Claus asks from them. Mother Nature appears in the live action remake of The Year Without a Santa Claus, portrayed by Carol Kane. Mother Nature appears in the 2008 sequel A Miser Brothers' Christmas voiced by Patricia Hamilton. Besides Heat Miser and Snow Miser, she is also shown to be the ...
International Mother Earth Day was established in 2009, by the United Nations General Assembly under Resolution A/RES/63/278. The Resolution was introduced by Bolivia and endorsed by over 50 member states. [ 1 ]
Earth Day expanded into Europe for Earth Day 2006, and events and speeches were held in most of the EU countries. Key events included the "Festival on Climate Change" in Utrecht, the Netherlands, which was focused on "How to break away from the oil dependence," and included Earth Day founder Denis Hayes and members of the Dutch and E.U ...
The following year, Spaceship Earth became the title of a book by a friend of Stevenson's, the economist Barbara Ward. [full citation needed] In 1966, Kenneth E. Boulding, who was influenced by reading Henry George's work, [6] used the phrase in the title of his essay, The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth. [7]
While the 16th president delivered many historic speeches throughout his presidency, the Gettysburg Address is arguably the most famous of Lincoln's oratory remarks. RELATED: President Abraham Lincoln
Ecospirituality can also be seen in the Prithivi Sukta which is a "Hymn to Mother Earth." [ 4 ] In this text, the Earth is humanized into a spiritual being to which humans have familial ties. Through ecospirituality, the notion of praising and viewing the Earth in this way brings about its strong connections to Hinduism.
Angelina Jolie took home the Performer Tribute Award at the 2024 Gotham Awards for her role as Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín's biopic of the famous opera singer. In an emotional acceptance speech ...