Minggu, 29 April 2012

Earth Day

22 April ....
Do you remember what day is celebrated on that date?
Yupz ... 22 April is Earth Day. Earth Day was first
celebrated 40 years ago, or rather in 1970 and was first performed in the United States. Earth Day was first initiated by Gaylord Nelson. He was a senator. Earth Day was the his idea instigated the first time during a speech in Seattle in 1969 on the insistence to include controversial issues.
Nelson got the idea of ​​the astonishing support from civil society. This support continues to grow and culminated with EARTH DAY commemorated the anniversary of the monumental. TIME magazine estimates that about 20 million people took to the streets on 22 April 1970.
The first Earth Day in United States is the climax of the struggle of environmental movement in the 60's to enter the environmental issues as an urgent national fixed agenda. Now Earth Day has become a global event. EARTH DAY alert the practitioner to unite themselves in a global network of civil society for Earth Day EARTH DAY NETWORK which is based in Seattle. The first Earth Day '70 and 20 million people in the U.S., Earth Day 1990 involving 200 million people around the world, on Earth Day 2000 involved an estimated 500 million people around the world with the jargon of "making history - making change".
In Indonesia, the celebration of Earth Day this year opened with the Indonesia Climate Change Education Forum & Expo (ICCEFE), at the Jakarta Convention Center Convention Center, from 19 to 22 April 2012. ICCEFE the second time the theme Response to Climate Change.

Variety of people ways do to commemorate Earth Day this year. Yells than saving an increasingly degraded environment, related to the real action like planting the tree. Various regions in Indonesia celebrate Earth Day this year. In Pontianak, West Kalimantan, a number of parties warned by cycling, tree planting and dividing the number of road users. They consist of the City of Pontianak, Bike to Work, WWF-Indonesia Program ordinance, Giz FORCLIME, the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) Pontianak, Faculty of Biology UNTAN, Silva UNTAN, Pontianak Information, Musasira Foundation, West Coast of Borneo, Raharja Services, Photography Forum equator. They held a joint action as a form of their concern for the earth. Action carried out for three hours starting with cycling movement in the location of car free day. Following the musical attractions, the distribution of seeds, and planting trees in Pontianak Mujahidin mosque site.
Earth Day, 22 April 2012 in Bandung campaign enlivened by students at Jalan Dago, coinciding with the day without a motor vehicle (car free day). One of the unique action, they exchange plastic bottles with green apples.
University where we look for knowledge was not to be outdone by other areas that celebrate Earth Day. On 24 April Jember University, The Agricultural Faculty held a ceremony exactly the theme of " Faperta Smoke-free". The event was held in commemoration of Earth Day. Although it does not coincide with the April 22, but these activities have an appreciation of all citizens in the Faculty of Agriculture. Starting from the Dean, the administration, students up to the workers at the Faculty of Agriculture does not smoke at that day.
But the fact, after research by conducting interviews to 10 people at random from the many ways, student, students, merchants and workers. 8 of 10 people in interviews do not know about the existence of global Earth Day which falls on 22 April each year. Earth Day is actually a warning would be meaningless if people do not really take care of this earth. Awareness of the importance of a healthy man who for the earth is getting old and decrepit that it can not only friendly to man alone but to all living creatures.
Humans and all living creatures on earth, human activities are contributing to the earth and most influential.
We should give thanks to God who had created the earth, trying to breathe Just imagine if the man has to buy it? 1 liter of oxygen for approximately $ 25 rb; one day human takes about 2,500 liters of oxygen to be what it will cost a person a day? 1 person daily cost of about USD 62.5 million, - if a person 50 years of age then at what cost? obviously not very expensive .... grateful earth still friendly, the oxygen we breathe free. Therefore, let us all keep our beloved earth.
Don’t say Let’s Go Green but Do It. That’s very important. Do it an action, that is very nice. 

Green our Country….
Green our Earth……

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