WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2013
ITS THEME IS “THINK. EAT. SAVE”
ITS THEME IS “THINK. EAT. SAVE”
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Environment Day (WED) is celebrated each year on June 5 to spread
global awareness among the inhabitants of earth regarding mother nature.
Each year this day is celebrated with a theme and this year the theme
is THINK.EAT.SAVE. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO), every year 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted. At the same
time, 1 in every 7 people in the world go to bed hungry and more than
20,000 children under the age of 5 die daily due to hunger.
This year's theme encourages reduction of food wastage and be more aware of the environmental impact of their food choices, which in turn will help save money and minimise the environmental impact of food production. It is the responsibility of every citizen to help maintain the ecological balance.
Here are 5 things that you can do as a global citizen: 1) Spread awareness: The major purpose of this year's theme is to start making changes from the household level. 2) Build a small farm or garden: We know it's difficult to find space in a metropolitan city, but if you're blessed with one, make and maintain a small farm or garden. 3) Travel by public transport: Take public transportation on World Environment Day and vow to take it more often than you do. If you're already a public transport user, take a walk.
4) Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Renew, Recycle: If you're not already into this habit, it's a good day of the year to start. These 5R's are magic mantras when it comes to environmental conservation and sustainable usage. 5) Publicise: Let people know what you plan to do and do it this World Environment Day.
This year's theme encourages reduction of food wastage and be more aware of the environmental impact of their food choices, which in turn will help save money and minimise the environmental impact of food production. It is the responsibility of every citizen to help maintain the ecological balance.
Here are 5 things that you can do as a global citizen: 1) Spread awareness: The major purpose of this year's theme is to start making changes from the household level. 2) Build a small farm or garden: We know it's difficult to find space in a metropolitan city, but if you're blessed with one, make and maintain a small farm or garden. 3) Travel by public transport: Take public transportation on World Environment Day and vow to take it more often than you do. If you're already a public transport user, take a walk.
4) Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Renew, Recycle: If you're not already into this habit, it's a good day of the year to start. These 5R's are magic mantras when it comes to environmental conservation and sustainable usage. 5) Publicise: Let people know what you plan to do and do it this World Environment Day.
WHAT DO THE VEDIC TEACHINGS TELL US?
Long
before ecology became the refrain of the global song at Stockholm and
Rio, the ancient Indic heritage had already provided a spacious
spiritual home for the environmental ethos. In the West, the term
‘ecology’ was coined only in the latter half of the 19th century from
the Greek word Oikos, meaning ‘home’. But India has, throughout
trackless centuries, provided an ample expanse of friendly space for an
open and ongoing discourse of ideas. The Jain, Vedic and Buddhist
traditions established the principles of ecological harmony centuries
ago - not because the world was perceived as heading for an imminent
environmental disaster or destruction, nor because of any immediate
utilitarian exigency, but through its quest for spiritual and physical
symbiosis, synthesized in a system of ethical awareness and moral
responsibility.
H. E. Dr Laxmi Mall Singhvi :
Former President of the World Congress on Human Rights
“The East is green” - August 1996.
http://www.ourplanet.com/imgversn/82/singhvi.html
http://www.hinduwisdom.info/Nature_Worship.htm
Published by dasavatara das - "Vedic Views on World News"
http://www.vedicviews-worldnews.blogspot.com.ar/
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