The U.S. Postal Service kicked off Earth Day events around the country highlighting ways the Postal Service strives to be leaner, greener, smarter and faster all year long. “The Postal Service is in every community in every state and that gives us a responsibility to be good neighbors,” said Deputy Postmaster General Ronald A. Stroman [...]
To celebrate Earth Day 2012, the Institute of Subjective Well-Being makes “A course in happiness” available as a free Amazon Kindle book on http://www.amareway.org/a-course-in-happiness-book from April 18th until April 22nd (Earth Day). Instead of paying for it, readers are invited to take a green pledge for Earth Day 2012, and to sign the HT Oneness [...]
Alaska Airlines is celebrating Earth Day with the launch of “Save Green. Give Green.,” a one-day promotion offering customers 10 percent off airfare to all cities the carrier serves. As part of the promotion, Alaska Airlines will donate five miles to The Nature Conservancy for every ticket purchased today up to 100,000 miles. “‘Save Green. [...]
In 1969 a devastating oil spill off the coast of Santa Barbara inspired visiting Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to create the first Earth Day. Twenty million Americans celebrated at the event the following April while simultaneously developing plans to protect the environment. At that first Earth Day, Senator Nelson and conservationists across the country noted [...]
“The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition” profiles 322 institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada that demonstrate notable commitments to sustainability in their academic offerings, campus infrastructure, activities and career preparation. The 232-page book—the only free, comprehensive, annually updated guide to green colleges—can be downloaded at www.princetonreview.com/green-guide and [...]
For the last 40 years, Earth Day has been celebrated around the world to call attention to some of our most pressing environmental and social problems, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and dwindling natural resources. This year, the Worldwatch Institute‘s Nourishing the Planet (www.NourishingthePlanet.org) highlights 15 agricultural innovations that are already working on the ground [...]
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 Google Doodle 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 41 years [...]
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 [...]