Earth Day 2010 celebrates its 40th birthday today. It’s a time to promote the sustainability of our land, water and air through individual efforts to ultimately create collective, widespread impact. Companies and consumers alike are finding distinct ways to contribute to tomorrow’s environment. Disney offers “eco-friendly hats” in exchange for recyclable bottles and Facebook users can share how they’re leaving a smaller environmental footprint this Earth Day.
To learn more about how you can get involved or increase your eco IQ, here are just a few interesting articles exploring the many facets of Earth Day 2010:
The History Of Earth Day and Environmentalism
Earth Day was created as a response to incredible, systemic pollution and disregard for Mother Nature. Forty years ago today, polluted rivers caught fire, frequent oil spills squelched shoreline animal populations and dirty air choked cities. Learn about the challenging, yet rewarding historic path to sustainability thus far. [
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The city of Lahore has entered into the spirit of Earth Day by starting a ‘Tidy Up’ project (part of the wider Azm-e-Alishan campaign, http://www.azmealishan.com).
Join us from the 26th April when hundreds of people will be taking to the streets to clean up their neighborhoods, making it the largest ever campaign of its kind in the country.