Calendar of World Environmental Events 2012
by Bhavani Prakash
A very belated Happy and Green New Year to all our readers. This is our first post for 2012. Like last year we start with the key environmental (and related) events in the months ahead.
We also take the opportunity to thank our team of Guest Writers for their wonderful perspectives so far and look forward to more in the coming months. A special thanks to Bharathi Shiva, who has been helping us a lot with editorial work, and to Paul Schattenberg, for his tremendous IT assistance despite a busy schedule.
And of course, we would love to acknowledge you, our dear reader, for your continued support. We are much encouraged by the warm feedback we get from you and that is really what keeps us going! As always, we would be happy to hear your suggestions and comments by email or through social media.
As we said last year:
“The dates we have compiled are found on several sites. Some are well known, and some came as a surprise to us as well. We do believe, no matter who or where you are, everyday is a day of celebration. Every day is a day for our dear planet Earth – for us to respect, conserve and manage her precious resources in a sustainable way. Every day is a day for peace and compassion.”
If we’ve missed out any important dates below, do let us know and we’ll be glad to add them in. We found quite a few new ones and have updated the list for your benefit and interest. Here it is:
JANUARY
- January 1 : New Year’s Day, Global Family Day for peace and sharing
- January 4 : World Braille Day
- February 2 : World Wetlands Day
- February 4 : World Cancer Day
- February 20 : World Day of Social Justice
- February 21 : International Mother Language Day
- March 8 : International Women’s Day
- March 14 : International Day of Action Against Dams and For Rivers, Water and Life
- March 21 : World Forestry Day
- March 22 : World Water Day
- March 23 : World Meteorological Day
- March 26 : Earth Hour
- April 4 : International Day for Mine Awareness and Asssistance in Mine Action
- April 7 : World Health Day
- April 22 : Earth Day
- April 29 : Arbor Day ( Different nations have different tree planting days )
- May 12 : World Fair Trade Day (2nd Saturday of May)
- May 14-15 : International Migratory Bird Day (Second Weekend each May)
- May 22 : International Day for Biological Diversity (Theme for 2012: Marine Biodiversity)
- June 5 : World Environment Day (Theme for 2012: Green Economy)
- June 8 : World Oceans Day
- June 15 : Global Wind Day
- June 17 : World Day to Combat Desertification
- June 20 : World Refugee Day
- June 15-18 : Rio+20 Corporate Sustainability Forum
- July 10 : International Happiness Day
- July 11 : World Population Day
- August 9 : International Day of the World’s Indigenous People
- August 12 : World Youth Day
- August 19 : World Humanitarian Day
- August 26 : World Kitchen Garden Day
- August 29 : International Day Against Nuclear Tests
- September 15: International Coastal Cleanup Day (3rd Saturday of September)
- September 8 : International Literacy Day
- September 2 : International Day of Peace
- September 2 : World Car-Free Day
- September 29 : World Heart Day
- October 1 : World Vegetarian Day
- October 2 : International Day of Non-Violence
- October 3 : World Habitat Day
- October 4 : World Animal Day
- October 15 : International Day of Rural Women
- October 16 : World Food Day
- October 27 : World Paper Free Day
- November 1 : World Vegan Day
- November 19 : World Toilet Day
- November 21 : World Fisheries Day
- November 23/24 : Buy Nothing Day (Friday after Thanksgiving Day in US and the day after internationally)
- November 26 to December 7 : UNFCCC COP 18 Climate Change Conference to be held at Qatar
- December 9 : International Day against Corruption
- December 10 : Human Rights Day and International Animal Rights Day
- December 11 : International Mountain Day (for Indigenous peoples)
Meat Free Days are a campaign to encourage a meat free diet one day a week, usually Mondays or Wednesdays. The purpose is to reduce human induced climate change, improve animal welfare and human health. Singapore’s green groups have launched a Veggie Thursday campaign.
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Bhavani Prakash is the Founder of Eco WALK the Talk.com She can be contacted at bhavani[at]ecowalkthetalk.com Do follow EWTT on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and LinkedIn
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Posted by Bharathi Shiva
on Jan 20 2012. Filed under Green Festivals, Green Meetings.
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