Four days after it’s release on DVD and Blu-ray, Avatar tends to become as a big hit in home entertainment as it was on theaters and at this moment the fastest selling movie in North America, shifting more than 6,7 million DVDs and Blu-rays from Thursday to Sunday. Avatar sold 4 million DVDs and 2.7 [...]
Earth Day 2010 was celebrated under the sign of global warming concerns and climate change, but the holiday has its origins 40 years ago, on April 22, 1970, when Senator Gaylord Nelson introduced it. Even on the first Earth Day, the focus was a growing ecological crisis and a growing deterioration of the environment. Now, [...]
“Earth Day achieved what I had hoped for and then some. The purpose of Earth Day was to get a nationwide demonstration of concern for the environment so large that it would shake the political establishment out of its lethargy and, finally, force this issue permanently into the political arena. Having criss-crossed the nation speaking [...]
In Bolivia, on Earth Day, where he held the Peoples’ Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, an initiative of President Evo Morales, several Latin American leaders demanded that the industrialized countries to halve their greenhouse gases 2020. In the region of Tiquipaya (central Bolivia), Morales said that the difference between this meeting [...]
The initiative of the World Environment Day, Earth Day, in the U.S. came in 1970 when Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson spoke out for Americans to take actions for the environment. Since then, several events are held throughout the country, which this year included the participation of actors from “Avatar” and its director James Cameron, who [...]
Teach your beloved children to love the Earth with these Earth Day videos for kids! The first in the Little Earth Charter series of eight animated shorts. Earth and Little Rosie celebrate the principle of LIFE. Great for early years. Performed by Rosie Emery! Charlie, the Big Green Rabbit, sings about why it’s Great to [...]
April 22nd is Earth Day, a very important celebration for environmentalists around the world. Even Google is celebrating it, by showing a custom Earth Day green logo on their front page. This is a day when everybody comes together and celebrates our planet and everything it offers to us. This holiday’s origins are 40 years [...]
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The planet wearing green again today, to celebrate Earth Day, which takes place 40 years and whose principal objective remains: to create a common awareness of the problems of pollution, conservation of biodiversity and other environmental concerns to protect the planet. Today we remember precisely the spontaneous and popular character who had that first Earth [...]
For the last years, Earth Day‘s mission has been to promote the importance of being environmentally conscious, and companies appear to be listening. One-in-ten employers say they have added “green jobs,” otherwise known as environmentally-focused positions, in the last 12 months, and despite the tough economy, nearly 10 percent plan to add more in 2010, [...]