Earth Day

The Earth Day is celebrated on two dates

21st March an initiative of the United

Nations.

22nd April an initiative of

Earth Day Network.

Earth Day - 21st March

Address to the peoples of Earth:

UN Secretary General - U Thant,March 21, 1971

«Let's just be peaceful and radnostni Days on Earth, our beautiful spaceship - the Earth, flying and rotating among the cool space and its bearing so fragile load-life.»

The symbol of the Earth Day

Green Greek letter Θ on white field

Flag of the Earth DayUnofficial symbol

Appeals to people to keep the

peace and the life on

the Earth and to help each

other 

The Bell of Peace

The first bell of Peace

It was cast from coins collected by children from 60 countries. It has an inscription:

«Long live the peace in the world».

There are Bells of Peace in more than 20 countries

is declaredEarth Day

initiative of the international movement

Earth Day Network.This day aims to unite

people in environmental

protection -Celebration of clean water, land and air

22nd April

History of the day

In 1872 the minister of agriculture in USA proposed to choose a day of the year for planting and called it the Tree day. 22nd April was chosen – it was the minister’s birthday. In 1970 it was renamed and called the Earth Day

History of the day

Ten years later, this holiday became

official for the U.S. on April 22 (the birthday

of Morton).In 1970, on the

initiative of Nelson “Tree Day” got a new name: "Earth Day".

On 22 April there was an oil leakage in a small American town. All citizens and volunteers from the whole country contributed to saving the nature.

Second version

The famous American scientist - environmentalist Denis Hayes turned to the world community with an appeal by April 22, 1990 to begin the celebration of "Earth Day" and every person to contribute in landscaping and planning of their home planet and its natural monuments.

Second version

Today

147 countries

contribute to this

day by organizing

ecological

activities

The Earth Day today

We started organizing this day in 1990

IN BULGARIA

Every year

we try to

contribute

to keeping

the planet

clean

LOOK WHAT WE’VE DONE

Initiatives

Save a tree – collecting paper

Tourist walk to Veteran hut

To make our planet a good place for living

The greenest classroom The greenest classroom

Gifts of the Earth - exhibition

Save a treeа campaign for collecting paper

A tourist walk

Drawing Competition„To make our planet

a good place for living“

Exhibition

Zooexhibition

The greenest classroom contest

„Gifts of the Earth“exhibition

„What we have done to the Earth“

photo contest

For me the Earth is like thisdrawing contest

Let’s keep the earth for tomorrow – messages on posters

My home the Earth – clean and niceliterary contest

The most beautiful flower for my school

a contest for pottes

Did you know ...

Glass bottle needs 4000 years to be decomposed

Recycling a glass bottle provides electricity to the TV to work 1.5 hours

For 1 ton of paper is needed 24 trees

Plastic bottle decomposes for 400 years

Electricity from recycled plastic bottles - 2 powered computer for 1 hour

How we can help

Do not leave electrical appliances on Do not use “double” lighting” – use the day light

Go on foot

.

Plant a tree, plant flowers

Take part in cleaning parks

Put the rubbish in separate bins: paper, glass, plastic, metal

Children can keep the planet green and

clean

LOOK WHAT WE’VE DONE !