Resident’s Green Day
19 April 2009. Bring your unwanted but still usable items for donation and recycling charity drive. In conjunction with Seri Sinar Amal Charity.
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Happy Earth Day 2009
History of Earth Day
Earth Day — April 22 — each year marks the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement in 1970.
Among other things, 1970 in the United States brought with it the Kent State shootings, the advent of fiber optics, “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Apollo 13, the Beatles’ last album, the death of Jimi Hendrix, the birth of Mariah Carey, and the meltdown of fuel rods in the Savannah River nuclear plant near Aiken, South Carolina — an incident not acknowledged for 18 years.
Participant in Earth Day, 1970.
Photo: EPA History Office
It was into such a world that the very first Earth Day was born.
Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide environmental protest “to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda. ” “It was a gamble,” he recalls, “but it worked.”
At the time, Americans …
Earth Hour Malaysia
Earth Hour 2009 is setting the platform for an unprecedented global mandate for action on climate change. Participate by turning off your lights for one hour (60 Minutes) from 8.30pm - 9.30pm on 28 March 2009. Sign up and pledge your support for Earth Hour at www.earthhour.org/malaysia
If you are one that cannot imagine how you will last an hour without using electricity,here’s a few suggestions for passing the time, including:
1. Go for a walk and see what the neighbours have switched off.
2. Take a stroll at the park hang out at the playground. There will a number of like minded people doing the same.
3. Strip down to your swimwear and have a relaxing swim at the nearest pool. (skinny-dipping, anyone?)
4. Prepare a sumptuous dinner for your loved ones (charcoal bbq?) and enjoy a pleasant candle-lit meal.
5. Get up to your lawn …