World Environment Day is a celebration and a day of apprising people about the environment they are surrounded with. It is celebrated every year with a different theme on June 5 and is hosted by different cities. As part of the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity, this year's event will be celebrated under the theme - Many Species. One Planet. One Future. The global host to the event this year is 'The Land of a Thousand Hills' - Rwanda, a country of remarkably biodiversity and one who has made vast contributions to environmental protection. India is yet to host such an event.
World Environment Day (WED) 2010 is aimed to be the biggest, most widely celebrated, global day for positive, environmental action.
Commemorated on 5 June since 1972, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the UN stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action.
Through WED, we are able to give a human face to environmental issues and enable people to realize not only their responsibility, but also their power to become agents for change in support of sustainable and equitable development.
WED is also a day for advocating partnerships among all stakeholders or perhaps, even more correctly, among all species living on this one planet and sharing a common future.
WED 2010 is aimed to be the biggest WED celebration ever and we count on you to make this happen! We call for action – organize a neighborhood clean-up, stop using plastic bags and get your community to do the same, plant a tree or better yet organize a collective tree planting effort, walk to work, start a recycling drive . . . the possibilities are endless.
Arts for the Earth
Arts for the Earth ™ is an innovative education program developed to teach sustainability and environmental education through museum and arts community networks.
The program’s goals are:
- to promote best practices in sustainability within the extensive arts and museum communities
- to work with our arts and educator networks to develop creative lesson plans that deliver environmental education through the arts
- to feature artists who have incorporated environmental themes into their works
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