Our planet earth is no doubt, a beautiful place to live. However, many pollution factors are influencing the beauty of earth and causing the environmental pollution. Earth day is the day that is celebrated all over the world every year, just to educate the people about current environmental condition of globe. Earth day is celebrated every year on 22nd April. Here are some facts about earth day.
1. History of Earth Day
1969 was the year, in which the idea of celebrating Earth day was presented by John McConnell first time. However, the global idea of celebrating earth day was presented by a Senator of United States, named Gaylord Nelson in 1970. He selected 22nd April as an Earth Day and promoted this idea by writing letters to educational institutes, magazines as well as government offices.
2. Response of First Earth Day
People, especially youngsters, liked this idea of celebrating Earth day very much and prove of this thing is the huge numbers of people, who participated in first Earth day. The numbers of participants on first Earth day were 20 million.
3. Aim of Earth Day
Pollution of earth environment has become a serious issue of present age, as it is damaging the earth’s protective layer “ozone”. So, the aim of celebrating earth’s day is nothing, but to protect the earth from pollution by means of creating awareness among the people about harmful affects of environmental pollution.
4. Earth day as Global event
Up till1990, Earth day become so much popular all over the world that it became a global event in 1990 and all the people admired that it is essential to celebrate this day for protection of our earth.
5. kid’s Earth day
Kids have adopted a weird way of celebrating earth day in their own style. They play games and do many earth-environment related activities to make their mind about protecting earth in future.
6. Quotes about Earth day
Many famous people have written a lot of quotes about earth day to make this day more popular among the people. These quotes are really playing very important role in making the Earth day more famous worldwide.
7. Earth Day Flag
A famous cartoonist Ron Cobb the ecology flag, which later become the Earth day flag. This flag has a symbol of “Theta” and now this symbol reflects the Earth day.
8. Countries celebrating Earth Day
Today, 174 countries are celebrating Earth day and the numbers of partners and people that have been involved in earth day activities are more than 17000 and 1 billion respectively.
9. Largest civic Event
As more than 1 billion people have become involved in earth day activities, so it has become world’s largest civic and secular event.
10. Theme of 2011 Earth day
Again this year, the Earth day was celebrated with its full boom on April 22, 2011 and the theme of this Earth day was “A billion acts of Green”.