World Environment Day – June 5
Raise your voice, not the sea level.
World Environment Day is the United Nations’ principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environment. The theme for the 2014 event is ‘Raise Your Voice, Not the Sea Level’, in recognition of the importance of preventing climate change to save small island nations from the sea level rises that threaten them.
“Planet Earth is our shared island, let us join forces to protect it.”
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the launch of the 2014 International Year of Small Islands and Developing States
While many organisations acknowledge this day, it also serves as the ‘people’s day’ for doing something positive for the environment, galvanizing individual actions into a collective power that generates an exponential positive impact on the planet. On the World Environment Day website you can join a challenge or find out more about what is happening the world over on this day
A few local observances for World Environment Day:
CERES Environment Park are celebrating World Environment Day at CERES on Thursday 5th June and on this day, as on any day visitors to CERES are very welcome. CERES Market and Grocery will be planting a couple of feijoas in Honey Lane with Farmer Steve, as well as making newspaper pots to plant seeds in that the kids can take home. There will also be a band for kids and their parents to dance to. Our Excursions and Incursions have offered a discount for schools who come to CERES during the week of World Environment Day. Each student group will receive a box of energy auditing goodies to take back to school. Chalk Messages and Banner Painting Visitors will be invited to write messages at the bottom of the ‘Countdown to Climate Change’. They will also be inviting people to raise their voice by writing on a banner that will be displayed at their centre. website
Darebin City Council is inviting local residents and businesses to celebrate World Environment Day 2014 at the Preston Market on Thursday 5 June. Council staff are hosting a stall between 12-2pm, promoting environmental initiatives available to residents and businesses and asking what you will do to help save the environment in 2014! Shoppers will be invited to come along, meet the Environment Team, participate in sustainable shopping workshops, and add their idea for a way they can help to the pledge board! Website
The Wilderness Society will launch their new campaign ‘Nature in Danger’. Join them as they share ideas for rescuing Nature in Danger, take part in some exciting activities, and of course celebrate the natural world that sustains us. Light snacks and refreshments provided.
RSVPs essential – please click here to register.
Date: Thursday, 5 June 2014 Time: 6pm for 6.30pm start – 9.30pm
Speaker: Leading conservation lawyer, Vanessa Bleyer, speaking on our Federal environmental laws and their application in protecting wilderness areas such as the Tarkine – ‘connecting law to land’.
Where: The Provincial Hotel (The Salon Room) 299 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
RSVPs essential – please click www.wilderness.org.au/wedmelbourne
The Wilderness Society Victoria Inc Website
What can we do? Join the challenge here You can join any or all of the four teams. Or make up your own personal pledge to start, or to stop doing something (as the case maybe) for the sake of the environment.