World Environment Day
Celebrated every Year on 5th
June. Reason behind this raises global
awareness to take positive environmental action. It is run by the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Round the globe now day’s biggest problem
facing related to environment.
It was the day that United Nations Conference
on the Human Environment began. The United Nations Conference on the Human
Environment was from 5–16 June 1972. It was established by the United
Nations General Assembly in 1972.
Each year, World Environment Day is
hosted in a different city with a different theme for one week that kicks off
on June 5. A World Environment Day theme is selected along with an Environment
Day slogan, which aims to emphasize the importance of protecting our planet and
promote an understanding that they each individually can play a significant and
effective role in tackling environmental issues.
Theme 2013
The 2013
theme for World Environment Day is Think. Eat. & Save
Think.Eat.Save. Reduce Your
Food print.
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Hosted Country - Mongolia
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The
campaign addresses the huge annual wastage and losses in food, which, if
conserved, would release a large quantity of food as well as reduce the overall
carbon footprint. The campaign aims to bring about awareness in countries with
lifestyles resulting in food wastage. It also aims to empower people to make
informed choices about the food they eat so as to reduce the overall ecological
impact due to the worldwide production of food.
The UNEP also confers international awards - The
‘Champions of the Earth’, ‘UNEP Sasakawa Prize’, ‘The Seeds Awards’, among
others - to individuals or organizations on World Environment Day based on
their innovation, vision and performance in protecting or benefiting the
environment.
Natural way to clean Environment:-
More and more people are interested in going
green, buying organic, and ultimately protecting the environment, for a number
of different reasons.
Following 10 ideas:-
1. Leave Your Car at
Home
Every time you drive solo in an SUV, you're
adding more than 1.5 pounds of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases to the
environment with each mile. Change your driving
habits and you make an immediate impact on the environment. Take short trips on
foot or by bike instead, and you'll also make an immediate impact on your
health. While riding your bike at a leisurely 6 miles per hour, you can burn
240 calories an hour or more. Walking at a normal pace of 2 to 3 miles per
hour, you can burn up to 300 calories or more each hour.
2. Think Reusable When You Drink
Because of recent reports of chemical
contaminants in bottled water, many people are becoming concerned about
drinking water from disposable plastic bottles, and especially about using
plastic bottles to feed infants. Beyond the possible health concerns. Buy an
environmentally-friendly reusable stainless-steel canteen-like bottle for
carrying your water around. For hot beverages, use a thermos so you won't
contribute to the "staggering" number of disposable coffee cups and
lids that are thrown out each year.
3.
Slip Into Something a Little More Healthy
According to the World Wildlife Fund, per
fluorinated chemicals (PFCs) used on some clothes to help keep them
wrinkle-free can be toxic to the environment and have also been linked with
health concerns including cancer. Choosing
more natural fabrics is a greener approach, Look online for
specialty stores in your area that sell clothes made fabrics produced using the
least amount of harsh chemicals, like hemp, organic cotton, wool, or silk. This
will maximize your contribution to the environment and minimize your exposure
to potentially toxic chemicals.
4.Choose Locally Grown or Organic Food
Fruits and vegetables are often shipped hundreds
of miles or more from other states or countries before they reach your
supermarket, which means they may have been picked weeks before you eat them.
However, if you buy locally grown produce from a farmers' market, for instance,
the food is likely to be freshly picked. You'll also have the chance to ask the
farmer if the fruits and vegetables are organic, or if any pesticides or other
chemicals that could pose a danger to the earth, or your health, were used on
them.
5. Clean Up Your Water and
the Environment
According to Consumer Reports, you can find a
variety of water filters that remove common contaminants. Trask recommends
Brita water-filtering pitchers because the company recycles used filters,
preventing them from ending up in landfills.
6. Do Some Old-School Cleaning
When you clean with harsh cleansers,
"inevitably some of these chemical components escape into the
environment,". Such chemicals have been linked with a variety of health
issues, including skin rashes and asthma flare-ups. "We can clean quite
effectively with products our
grandparents used. White vinegar or natural castile soap can be mixed with salt
and baking soda to cut through mold or soap scum, and natural products like
washing soda and borax can be used to clean floors and remove grease stains.
One part vinegar and one part water in a spray bottle makes a glass cleaner,
shower cleaner, floor cleaner, and toilet cleaner."
7. Make the World a Greener
Place
Plant a tree (or a few!) in your Yard as a family project. The
long list of health- and environment-improving benefits of having trees around
include reducing your air-conditioning costs by providing shade; possibly
raising the property value and resale appeal of your home; pulling carbon
dioxide out of the environment and creating oxygen; improved water quality; and
providing you with calming surroundings.
8. Help Yourself to Less
Meat, Help the Environment
Meat production has a big impact on the
environment. Livestock industries generate 18 percent of greenhouse gas
emissions reported from the five major sectors (such as energy and agriculture)
that participate in reporting. Considering only the agriculture sector,
livestock industries account for more than 80 percent. Research has found that
vegetarians are less likely to be obese, have lower cholesterol, and are less
likely to have heart disease caused by blocked arteries. If you're considering
the vegetarian route, or just
want to cut back on meat, just be sure to get enough protein through other
sources like peanut butter, beans, soy foods, and eggs.
9. Choose a Greener Way of
Cleaning Clothes
Many dry cleaners use a chemical called
perchloroethylene, or perc, which the International Agency for Research on
Cancer has listed as a probable human carcinogen. After your clothes are
dry-cleaned, some of the chemical remains in the fabric — you wear it next to your
skin and it escapes into your home's environment, which is bad for you and the
earth. Instead, try investigating cleaners in
your area that offer "wet cleaning" technologies that use water-based
equipment to clean garments that previously were dry cleaned.
10. Go Organic: Grow Your
Own Food!
Planting and maintaining an organic vegetable
garden in your yard provides countless benefits. You can enjoy a variety of
veggies that are far fresher and taste better than anything you'll find in the
supermarket. You'll be sustaining yourself with food that didn't require fossil
fuels for transportation. You'll have the peace of mind of knowing that
pesticides weren't used on your vegetables. And you'll get months of exercise as you prepare the
ground, plant the seeds, tend to your crops, and pick the food yourself.
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