Who gave the word ‘Earth Day’

Julian Koenig was the first to bring the word ‘Earth Day’ among the people. In 1969, he first introduced the word to the people. To celebrate this movement related to environment protection, he chose the date of his birthday on 22 April. He believed that with ‘Earth Day’ ‘Birthday’ mixes rhythm.

 Theme of Earth Day 2020

On Earth Day, April 22, 2020, the world is facing two crises: One is the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic and another one is climatic conditions. Climate Action is the theme for Earth Day 2020.  Climate change is the greatest threat to the survival of mankind and the life-sustaining structures that make our planet habitable.

Though the world was not prepared for the Novel coronavirus attack but to fight with climate crisis we still have time. We can, will and must solve both challenges. The outbreak of coronavirus has reminded us to improve our earth and address our climate crisis otherwise our current situation will become a new normal — a world where pandemics and extreme weather events cover the globe.

If we want to bring change in climate and want to save our mother earth, every individual follows some tips to save the environment.

1. Use environmentally-friendly, non-toxic cleaning products.
2. Replace inefficient incandescent light bulbs with efficient CFLs or LEDs. Reduce your carbon footprint by 450 pounds a year.
3. Carpool, ride your bike, use public transportation or drive an electric or hybrid car. Reduce your carbon footprint by one pound for every mile you do not drive.
4. Keep your tires properly inflated and get better gas mileage. Reduce your carbon footprint 20 pounds for each gallon of gas saved.
5. Change your car’s air filter regularly.
6. Teleconference instead of traveling. If you fly five times per year, those trips are likely to account for 75% of your personal carbon footprint.
7. Stop using disposable plastics, especially single-use plastics like bottles, bags, and straws.
8. Recycle paper, plastic, and glass. Reduce your garbage by 10% and your carbon footprint by 1,200 pounds a year.
9. Donate your old clothes and home goods instead of throwing them out. When you need something, consider buying used items.
10. Use cloth towels instead of paper ones.
11. Change your paper bills to online billing. You’ll be saving trees and the fuel it takes to deliver your bills by truck.
12. Read documents online instead of printing them.
13. When you need to use paper, make sure it’s 100% post-consumer recycled paper.
14. Set your office printer to print two-sided.
15. Collect used printer, fax, and copier cartridges to recycle.
16. Convince your school district or office building to choose reusable utensils, trays, and dishes in the cafeteria.
17. Use reusable bottles for water, and reusable mugs for coffee.
18. Bring reusable bags when you shop.
19. Pack your lunch in a reusable bag.
20. Organize to have healthy, locally-sourced food served at in your school district.
21. Buy local food to reduce the distance from farm to fork. Buy straight from the farm, frequent your local farmers’ market, or join a local food co-op.
22. Buy organic food to keep your body and the environment free of toxic pesticides. Support farmers and companies who use organic ingredients.

Information source: https://www.earthday.org/

The “Gogreen initiative” has been launched in association with Haryana State Pollution Control Board to create awareness about the need to increase the forest cover to address air pollution, which is the theme of this year’s World Environment Day celebrated on June 5.

To reduce the impact of air pollution, planting trees is one of the significant efforts to fight against air pollution,” Dr. Tarun Sapra said in a statement.

An initiative of planting seeds will encourage people to make a positive contribution to improving the green cover.

Dr. Dinesh Sehgal said, “protecting and saving the environment is the responsibility of every individual and through this initiative, we are encouraging people to plant trees and improve their health.

Today’s campaign includes Rakesh Agrawal, Sushil Khirinta, Manish Goyal, Trilok Bansal, Dr. Suresh Chopra, Manish Goyal CA, Dr. S. K. Garg, Dr. RK Grover, Vishal Agarwal, Satyendra Yaduvanshi, Ashok Gupta Monalisa, Arvind Munjal, Dr.  Raj Verma, Dr. Sandeep Gupta, Ajay Kumar, Nitish, Mohit, Warveer Singh, Deepak Pawar, Dr. Vijay Kadyan, Ajay Garg, Gaurav Pahuja, Sunil Kakkar, Sanjay Kathpalia, Gagan Mehta, Jitendra Bansal, Ajay Koo  Mar, Pankaj Chadha, Deepak Gupta, Nawab, Dharmaveer Bandy, Lalit Rumwal, Vikas Gondar, Harish Banga etc. were included.

Among the women, Jyothi Goyal, Shakuntala Agarwal, Kiran Bansal, Anita Sharma, Ranju Goyal, Divya Agarwal etc participated in the campaign.  Sandeep, Ravi, Preet, Utsav, Shyamash, Praeti, Vedanta, Law, Gauri, Tomisha, Yagna, Kashavi Kadyan, Goal, Viraj, Bhanu, Gauri, Garvita, Eastern Bansal, Keshavi Agarwal, Angel, Bhavya, Gagan, Dinesh etc. are the young generation who have participated in the event.

The event was first celebrated nationally in 1970, but its inception began following a massive oil spill in Santa Barbara, CA in 1969. Earth day continued to grow over the years. In 1990, it went global, and 200 million people in 141 countries participated in the event, according to the Earth day Network.

It’s not a day to only wish happy Earth day and not doing anything for the mother Earth. We should pledge not to harm the environment, will do less use of plastic, focus on resuse, recycle policy, planting trees and saving the endangered species. All living things have an intrinsic value and play an important role in the web of life. We all have to work together to save our Mother Earth.