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Earth Day
The Earth Day is celebrated on two dates
21st March an initiative of the United
Nations.
22nd April an initiative of
Earth Day Network.
Earth Day - 21st March
Address to the peoples of Earth:
UN Secretary General - U Thant,March 21, 1971
«Let's just be peaceful and radnostni Days on Earth, our beautiful spaceship - the Earth, flying and rotating among the cool space and its bearing so fragile load-life.»
The symbol of the Earth Day
Green Greek letter Θ on white field
Flag of the Earth DayUnofficial symbol
Appeals to people to keep the
peace and the life on
the Earth and to help each
other
The Bell of Peace
The first bell of Peace
It was cast from coins collected by children from 60 countries. It has an inscription:
«Long live the peace in the world».
There are Bells of Peace in more than 20 countries
is declaredEarth Day
initiative of the international movement
Earth Day Network.This day aims to unite
people in environmental
protection -Celebration of clean water, land and air
22nd April
History of the day
In 1872 the minister of agriculture in USA proposed to choose a day of the year for planting and called it the Tree day. 22nd April was chosen – it was the minister’s birthday. In 1970 it was renamed and called the Earth Day
History of the day
Ten years later, this holiday became
official for the U.S. on April 22 (the birthday
of Morton).In 1970, on the
initiative of Nelson “Tree Day” got a new name: "Earth Day".
On 22 April there was an oil leakage in a small American town. All citizens and volunteers from the whole country contributed to saving the nature.
Second version
The famous American scientist - environmentalist Denis Hayes turned to the world community with an appeal by April 22, 1990 to begin the celebration of "Earth Day" and every person to contribute in landscaping and planning of their home planet and its natural monuments.
Second version
Today
147 countries
contribute to this
day by organizing
ecological
activities
The Earth Day today
We started organizing this day in 1990
IN BULGARIA
Every year
we try to
contribute
to keeping
the planet
clean
LOOK WHAT WE’VE DONE
Initiatives
Save a tree – collecting paper
Tourist walk to Veteran hut
To make our planet a good place for living
The greenest classroom The greenest classroom
Gifts of the Earth - exhibition
Save a treeа campaign for collecting paper
A tourist walk
Drawing Competition„To make our planet
a good place for living“
Exhibition
Zooexhibition
The greenest classroom contest
„Gifts of the Earth“exhibition
„What we have done to the Earth“
photo contest
For me the Earth is like thisdrawing contest
Let’s keep the earth for tomorrow – messages on posters
My home the Earth – clean and niceliterary contest
The most beautiful flower for my school
a contest for pottes
Did you know ...
Glass bottle needs 4000 years to be decomposed
Recycling a glass bottle provides electricity to the TV to work 1.5 hours
For 1 ton of paper is needed 24 trees
Plastic bottle decomposes for 400 years
Electricity from recycled plastic bottles - 2 powered computer for 1 hour
How we can help
Do not leave electrical appliances on Do not use “double” lighting” – use the day light
Go on foot
.
Plant a tree, plant flowers
Take part in cleaning parks
Put the rubbish in separate bins: paper, glass, plastic, metal
Children can keep the planet green and
clean
LOOK WHAT WE’VE DONE !