New Thing: Celebrate World Environment Day
Inspiration: The UN's World Environment Day
Cost: $0
Time: Several Hours
Bottom Line: Thanks, World!
World Environment Day (WED) is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. WED activities take place all year round but climax on 5 June every year, involving everyone from everywhere. WED celebration began in 1972 and has grown to become the one of the main vehicles through which the UN stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action. Through WED, the UN Environment Programme is able to personalize environmental issues and enable everyone to realize not only their responsibility, but also their power to become agents for change in support of sustainable and equitable development. WED is also a day for people from all walks of life to come together to ensure a cleaner, greener and brighter outlook for themselves and future generations.
In the Raining household, we marked the day in the afternoon (after church) with several different activities. We hung out an outdoor clothesline to mirror the one which we hung in the basement this winter, we had dinner outside, went without energy for a few hours, and I took Delia for a ride on her tricycle to look at trees.
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