The First Veggie Pride Parade in America took place in Greenwich Village, New York City, in May 2008. A repeat performance is scheduled for May 17, 2009.
Just as last year, the parade will launch in Manhattan's Olde Meat District (where 9th Ave., Gansevoort St., Greenwich St., and Little West 12th St. intersect) at 12 Noon. Line-up will begin at 11 a.m. and culminate in Union Square Park (northern end) where a festival of music, speakers and exhibitors will take place.
And again, just as last year, parade participants will wear costumes and carry sign boards announcing their pride in their vegetarian lifestyle. Local restaurants and veggie and veg-friendly groups will represent themselves with banners.
Following is a video of the 2008 parade.
posted date :Sunday, May 03, 2009
World Oceans Day 2010
World Oceans Day (8 June 2010) - Our oceans: opportunities and challenges.
The concept of a "World Ocean Day" was first proposed in 1992 by the Government of Canada at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The Ocean Project has been working closely with the World Ocean Network for the last six years to promote and coordinate World Ocean Day events and activities with aquariums, zoos, museums, conservation organizations and agencies, universities, schools, and businesses. Each year an increasing number of countries and organizations have been marking June 8th as opportunity to celebrate our world ocean and our personal connection to the sea.
With the World Ocean Network, The Ocean Project also developed and widely circulated a petition to the United Nations urging them to officially recognize World Ocean Day. With help from our Partner organizations, tens of thousands of people from all parts of the world signed online or paper copies of the petition. Your participation in all of this made a real difference!
While official U.N. designation is not going to change things overnight it is an important step in improving the health of our world's ocean. Now we need to capitalize on this fresh momentum! We hope you will be involved in planning or participating in a World Oceans Day celebration near you in June.
posted date :Sunday, June 06, 2010
World Environment Day 2010
Did you know that you are one in a million? Or more precisely, one of millions on this wondrous planet - anywhere in fact between an estimated 5 million to 100 million species. Scientist have only managed to identify about 2 million species so far. If you think about it, that means there a huge amount we still don't know about our planet or whom we share it with. What we do know though is that humans are among only a handful of species whose populations are growing, while most animals and plants are becoming rarer and fewer.
A total of 17,291 species are known to be threatened with extinction – from little-known plants and insects to charismatic birds and mammals. This is just the tip of the iceberg; many species disappear before they are even discovered. The reason? Human activities.
United Nations, New York, 21 may 2010 - World Environment Day (WED) 2010 is aimed to be the biggest, most widely celebrated, global day for positive, environmental action.
The theme of WED 2010 is “Many Species. One Planet. One Future.” It echoes the urgent call to conserve the diversity of life on our planet. A world without biodiversity is a very bleak prospect. Millions of people and millions of species all share the same planet, and only together can we enjoy a safer and more prosperous future.
posted date :Tuesday, June 01, 2010
World No Tobacco Day 2010
Controlling the epidemic of tobacco among women is an important part of any comprehensive tobacco control strategy. World No Tobacco Day 2010 will be designed to draw particular attention to the harmful effects of tobacco marketing towards women and girls, which will take place on 31 May 2010.
It will also highlight the need for the nearly 170 Parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control to ban all tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship in accordance with their constitutions or constitutional principles.
Women comprise about 20% of the world's more than 1 billion smokers. However, the epidemic of tobacco use among women is increasing in some countries. Women are a major target of opportunity for the tobacco industry, which needs to recruit new users to replace the nearly half of current users who will die prematurely from tobacco-related diseases.
On World No Tobacco Day 2010, and throughout the following year, WHO will encourage governments to pay particular attention to protecting women from the tobacco companies' attempts to lure them into lifetimes of nicotine dependence.
posted date :Monday, May 24, 2010
Veggie Pride Parade NYC 2019
Enter Veggie Pride Parade 2010, an event that is sure to bring meatless living and all its issues a much-needed boost. Building on the overwhelming success of the 2008 and 2009 parades, this year’s march through Greenwich Village will be even more uplifting and spectacular than before. Individually, participants come from many different philosophies, religions, and general approaches. But on Sunday, May 16, 2010, all will proclaim with one voice an expression of veggie pride.
Participants will, as in past parades, be encouraged to come in costume and to wear signboards announcing their pride in their veggie lifestyle. Local restaurants and vegan groups will be represented with banners and chants. Mascots Chris P. Carrot and Penelo Pea Pod will again lead off the parade to set the tone.
posted date :Monday, May 10, 2010
World Fair Trade Day 2010
Together, we can make a difference in the lives of small producers, artisans and formers around the planet. Fair Trade with thousands of supporters aim to do just that. It is a concrete and efficient way to participate in the construction of a better world for several million small producers in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
This is why World Fair Trade Day has extraordinary citizens support and is being celebrated through hundreds of events in more than 70 countries around the world.
World Fair Trade Day 2010 is about Fair Trade, about people, organizations, producers, consumers, supporters and all those who share its goals. But more importantly, it is about you. It is your day to draw attention to your power to change your community and your world for the better through Fair Trade. Together, we can improve the lives of small producers, farmers and artisans, around the world.
World Fair Trade Day is your day. Join millions of people celebrating and become the change you seek by voicing your support for Fair Trade. Help to spread the message around the world, change your consumption patterns, and attend a World Fair Trade Day event on May 8th, 2010. Join us in targeting poverty, climate change and economic crisis. Join us in celebrating World Fair Trade Day!
posted date :Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Earth Day 2010
Forty years after the first Earth Day (April 22), the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future.
Earth Day 2010 can be a turning point to advance climate policy, energy efficiency, renewable energy and green jobs. Earth Day Network is galvanizing millions who make personal commitments to sustainability.
Earth Day 2010 is a pivotal opportunity for individuals, corporations and governments to join together and create a global green economy. Join the more than one billion people in 190 countries that are taking action for Earth Day.
posted date :Monday, April 12, 2010
World Health Day 2010
With the campaign 1000 cities, 1000 lives, events will be organized worldwide during the week of 7 – 11 April 2010.
The global goals of the campaign are:
* 1000 cities: to open up public spaces to health, whether it be activities in parks, town hall meetings, clean-up campaigns, or closing off portions of streets to motorized vehicles.
* 1000 lives: to collect 1000 stories of urban health champions who have taken action and had a significant impact on health in their cities.
posted date :Monday, April 05, 2010
Earth Hour 2010
Whether you are an individual, a business, a school or a city, you can show your support for Earth Hour by turning off your lights at 8.30PM on March 27 wherever you are on the planet.
You can support Earth Hour by:
1. Turning off your lights at 8.30PM on March 27
2. Showing your support and adding yourself to our world map
3. Adding Earth Hour widgets, logos and banners to your blog or website to help spread the word
4. Talking about Earth Hour in your social network by updating your Facebook status, grabbing a Twibbon, tweeting about your support, and more
5. Get together with your friends and family, by hosting an Earth Hour party or holding your own candlelit affair
6. Rally your local council or community group to run an Earth Hour event for your community
7. Encourage your employer and workmates to take part in Earth Hour and make energy savings every day
8. Make an Earth Hour Lantern as a symbol of hope for the future
9. Be creative! Find a new way to mark Earth Hour and let us know all about it!
Every year, 1,500 cubic kilometres of wastewater are produced globally. While waste and wastewater can be reused productively for energy and irrigation, it usually is not. In developing countries 80 percent of all waste is being discharged untreated, because of lack of regulations and resources. And population and industrial growth add new sources of pollution and increased demand for clean water to the equation. Human and environmental health, drinking and agricultural water supplies for the present and future are at stake, still water pollution rarely warrants mention as a pressing issue.
To do something about that UN-Water has chosen Clean Water for a Healthy World as theme for World Water Day 2010. The overall goal of the World Water Day on 22 March 2010 campaign is to raise the profile of water quality at the political level so that water quality considerations are made alongside those of water quantity.
UNEP has responsibility for taking the lead in 2010, UN-Water announced at a session during the Stockholm World Water Week in August 2009.
posted date :Monday, March 08, 2010
World Wetlands Day 2010
World Wetlands Day falls on 2 February every year, and every year it presents us with a welcome opportunity to join together in celebrating the benefits that we all receive from wetlands, as well as to raise the awareness of our fellow citizens about the importance of these vital ecosystems for our common future. As we have done since the first World Wetlands Day back in 1997, we in the Ramsar Secretariat have focused on an appropriate particular theme and offered a range of materials, with financial support from the Danone Group, that we hope will help to animate WWD activities at all levels.
This year’s theme, Wetlands, Biodiversity and Climate Change, with the slogan “Caring for wetlands: an answer to climate change”, captures the sense of urgency we all feel about the need to address the potentially disastrous consequences of global climate change as quickly as possible, particularly in the wake of the Copenhagen meeting of the UNFCCC back in December, and it emphasizes our belief that the role of wetlands in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change must be central in all future debates about the way forward. Our colorful leaflet lays out many of the ways in which anticipated climate change may affect the health and productivity of the world’s wetlands, and it identifies some of the ways in which healthy wetlands contribute very significantly to potential solutions.
(Message from the Secretary General, Ramsar Convention)
posted date :Monday, February 01, 2010
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