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By Jane Lubchenco | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Forty years ago, the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson gave birth to Earth Day when he stood up for the environment, calling upon the American people to come together for a simple teach-in on the environment. The first Earth Day was a catal...

Galapagos IslandsApril 6-10, 2010 Only in Galápagos will you come face to face with wildlife that has never developed a fear of people. With an expedition to the Land of Darwin, you have the opportunity to study blue-footed boobies performing a courtship “dance”, snorkel with playful sea lions, wat...

Digging up and pulling out invasive weeds or checking the quality of water in a creek may not be the way many students plan to spend a day off from school, but nine First Creek students in the Science Club were participating in Martin Luther King Jr.’s Day of Service on Jan. 18. It was also the kic...

On Saturday, April 10, 100 people will organize community-based, environmentally-focused, youth-led service projects for Global Youth Service Day 2010 and beyond. read more here http://nextstepadventure.com/2010/03/07/join-the-movement/

Dirt! The Movie is traveling across the U.S. with free screenings. And it's promoting GYSD as it goes. read more here http://dirtthemovie.org  

By Ouisa D. Davis We say that the future is in the hands of our youth; that is even more the case in the current age of technology and human advancement. Some of the most pressing problems of our world and our community can be identified and addressed with the eyes of the young; eyes that are clear...

Forty years after the first Earth Day , the world is in greater peril than ever. While climate change is the greatest challenge of our time, it also presents the greatest opportunity – an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean energy economy now and for the future. Earth Da...

The United Nations celebrates Earth Day each year on the spring equinox, which is often 20 March. This is a tradition which was founded by peace activist John McConnell in 1969. The United Nations Earth Day is similar to World Environment Day. Earth Day 2010 will be on 22 April. The First Earth Day...

Global Youth Service Day, originally launched and known as National Youth Service Day in the United States, is a coordinated annual event which gathers young people around the world in conducting community service, service learning, and youth voice activities that benefit their communities, their co...

The Empire State and the Chrysler buildings in New York City, along with landmarks from the Eiffel Tower to Sydney harbor, went dark for an hour on Saturday to raise awareness over the fight against climate change. The global brownout was a noisy event in Sydney harbor, with ferry horns blaring t...

After the white-shelled roof of the Sydney Opera House fell dark, after Taiwan's skyscrapers dimmed and Beijing's Forbidden City became, well, a little more forbidding - it was Moscow's turn to turn out the lights as Saturday's global Earth Hour event rolled around to Europe. Millions of people wor...

The president of the House of Representatives, Michel Temer, and the president of the Senate, José Sarney, both signed the pledge to EH. Senator Marina Silva also pledged her support to Earth Hour 2010. This coming Saturday, March 27, both the Federal House of Representatives and the Federal Senat...

Antarctic research unit signs up to switch off ensuring lights go out across every continent • More than 118 countries and regions to observe Earth Hour’s message of hope and action • Google and UEFA join global action on climate change China’s most significant historic landmark, the Forbidden City...

• 121 countries and territories across all seven continents to participate in global climate action • Great Pyramids and Sphinx to lead Earth Hour’s landmark action on global warming • Football superclub, Real Madrid, joins the greatest team ever assembled to tackle climate change • Archbishop Desmo...

For Immediate Release: March 11, 2010 Contacts: USC Institute for Genetic Medicine Art Gallery Keck School of Medicine at USC 2250 Alacazar St, CSC 240 Los Angeles, CA 90033 Maryam Gueramian, Young Professionals Committee Chair - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Great Thinkers Forum: A Global Collective ...

Annie Leonard Releases New Video on Story of Bottled Water for World Water Day by Jaymi Heimbuch Today is World Water Day - a day to celebrate and become ever more savvy about this incredibly finite resource that we all have to have access to in order to survive. Annie Leonard and crew are also on...

By David Bois World Water Day 2010: Everything You Need to Know the annual UN-sponsored focus on the technical, social, and political challenges and opportunities relating to the world's supply of fresh water. We rarely give clean water and sanitation a second thought, mostly because our water de...

Earth Hour 2010 It’s as simple as a flick of the switch. What began in 2007 as a campaign to get Sydneysiders to turn their lights off, has grown to become one of the world’s biggest climate change initiatives. In 2010, at 8.30pm on March 27, people around the world will turn their lights for one h...

By Dr. Jonathan Harrington, author of The Climate Diet: How You Can Cut Carbon, Cut Costs and Save the Planet (Earthscan 2008). Virtually all religions embrace once central moral tenet, do no harm. In America parents, preachers and teachers endlessly drum this age old mantra into our heads. You wou...

Hi everybody, I'm Amanda and I'm a student at Environmental Charter High School. My role here at the school is to spread the "Green Change" throughout my school by Selling Kanteens and Chico bags to everybody in my school. My goal is to for all the soccer, baseball, basketball, and softball players ...