save the Earth

Save the Earth

                              Raghav Agrawal

MUMBAI: Earth day is celebrated on 22 April. From San Francisco to San Juan, Beijing to Brussels, Moscow to Marrakesh, people plant trees, clean up their communities, contact their elected officials, and more—all on behalf of the environment. It is a festival which is celebrated around the world in 192 different countries. The first Earth day was celebrated in 1970. In 1969 UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be celebrated on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere.  But a month later, Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed April 22 as the date. Earth day will celebrate its 44 anniversary in the year 2014. Earth Hour is a worldwide movement for the planet organized by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). The event is held worldwide annually encouraging individuals, communities, households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights for one hour, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. on the last Saturday in March, as a symbol for their commitment to the planet. People all around the world are picking up the garbage in their neighborhoods. Everybody around the world are planting trees to save the earth. In many countries people are barricading the roads and cars are not allowed to run and instead they are cycling or running to their places of work. People are going to individual houses and collecting their garbage and disposing it themselves.  In some countries they are not allowing cars with an odd number as the last number on the plate to run on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday and the opposite for the even numbers. People are recycling everything possible to keep the Earth clean. Their motto is “Reduce, reuse, recycle.” In Indonesia they have a parade where they push an inflated earth around the city and if anyone wants to push the cart, they can happily push. Everyone should use a cycle to go to work and should save electricity by switching off lights, fans etc.  last  year in school the round square made paintigs and posters to tell people about Earth day and aware them the various things one could do to save our Earth.  This year they  made a huge poster dangling from the first floor which said “Save the Earth, Make it a better place. Their motto is, “Clean Earth, green Earth.” What can you do for a better planet?