WORLD ENVIROMENT DAY EVENTS
North America
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Denver
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) will organize its annual conference in Denver, from 3-7 June 2007, and Al Gore will be the speaker at the conference. To mark World Environment Day, the Petroleum Energy Resources Division and the Environmental Resources Management Division of SLA will host a special session on 5 June titled: Energy Issues: Global Climate Change and Renewable Resources. Speakers at that session will include Michael Shepard, President of Esource and staff scientists from NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratories).
For more information, please contact:
Marlene Vogelsang
Petroleum and Energy Resources Division
Special Libraries Association
851 Howard St. San Francisco
California
United States of America
Tel: (1) 415 973 7206
E-mail: mxv6@pge.com
Website: www.sla.org
New Mexico
Concluding on World Environment Day, the Sustainable Operations Summit, produced by CraigMichaels, was developed to bring together key leadership from the United States' largest & most influential organizations to promote various initiatives that benefit the environment.
Since the U.S is the leading consumer of natural resources and emitter of greenhouse gases, it has become imperative for our nation's leading organizations to incorporate green thinking into their daily operations. The Summit will bring together senior leadership from the nation's largest corporations, cities and states, universities, school districts and healthcare organizations. The programme will address critical issues such as green building, renewable energy, environmental management systems and various other initiatives that can help reduce our impact on the environment.
From an exclusive presentation by Al Gore to intimate industry-specific round table discussions, the diverse format of the Summit will provide those who attend with the knowledge to enable them to take effective steps in reducing their organization’s environmental footprint. The executive level programme combined with networking activities at the Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort, will provide a relationship- building environment. Since this will be a discussion driven event; all those invited are expected to participate actively. The Sustainable Operations Summit will take place in Albuquerque New Mexico and is an invitation-only event therefore ensuring an executive level delegation.
For more information, please contact:
Jennifer Weinberg
CraigMichaels Inc
15 Maiden Lane 5th floor
New York
United States of America
Tel: 1 (212) 232 2408
Fax: 1 (212) 232 2401
E-mail: jweinberg@craigmichaelsinc.com
Website: www.craigmichaelsinc.com
New York
To mark its first year and to celebrate World Environment Day, the newly formed Committee On the Environment will host speakers, activities, discussions, projects and a week-long carbon challenge to raise awareness about global warming and to learn how to reduce carbon emissions in very simple ways.
For more information, please contact:
Max Watson
2nd grade
Committee On The Environment (COTE)
Allen-Stevenson School
900 Park Avenue, 18E
New York
United States of America
E-mail: mhoward@ecotech-intl.com
Sacramento
The Sierra Club Sacramento Group will celebrate World Environment Day 2007 by holding the Sacramento River City Run. This will be a 5 and 10 km run/walk that will benefit local sustainable living projects. It will be held on Sunday 3 June. Other than to celebrate World Environment Day, this Run will be a platform to increase awareness of health; our own and the planet’s. In its third year, the River City Run raised $15, 000, which was awarded to 13 local projects.
For more information, please contact:
Kathy Ries
Sierra Club Sacramento Group
441 La Purissima Way Sacramento
United States of America
Tel: 1 (916) 739 6705
Fax: 1 (916) 739 6705
E-mail: director@rivercityrun.org
Website: www.rivercityrun.org
Saint Paul
On World Environment Day 2007, a public event will be held to launch a Public Space Recycling Project at Mears Park in Saint Paul. This initiative is one of many to make Saint Paul a waste-free city by the year 2020. Public Art Saint Paul, Eureka Recycling, and the City of Saint Paul will partner with other community based organizations to create a sustainable and meaningful public recycling system in Saint Paul.
The project will offer a unique opportunity to increase the participation of the community, and incorporate public art into recycling stations. Since there are relatively few large public space recycling programmes, this project will jump-start interest and provide solid research to inspire the expansion of these programmes throughout the nation.
This project stems from recommendations made by the Saint Paul environmental round-table, which is a community-driven process designed to give direction on six environmental issues. Throughout the process Eureka Recycling tapped into the desire and expertise of Saint Paul’s residents to create a cleaner, more livable city. In the final recommendations, which were adopted by the Saint Paul City Council on 19 April 2006, a plan was outlined to make the city waste-free. Part of the plan was to implement public space recycling in Saint Paul, sending a message that Saint Paul values recycling because it is good for the environment.
For more information, please contact:
Lynn Hoffman
Eureka Recycling
info@eurekarecycling.org
Website: www.eurekarecycling.org
Virginia
Portovert Magazine is a new, sustainable publication about eco-friendly weddings. The publication plans to raise environmental awareness on 5 June by creating a campaign for World Environment Day. The campaign will link the word WED with the concept of people taking actions on and after their wedding day to stop global warming.
For more information, please contact:
Meghan Meyers
Portovert Magazine
2465 Centreville Rd, Ste 223
Herndon, VA 20171
Virginia
United States of America
Tel: 1 703 467 0378
E-mail: meghan@portovert.com
Website: www.portovert.com
Volcano
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2007 Howard Shapiro, executive director of Performing and Fine Artists for World Peace (PFAWP), will release a music CD entitled Randon Notes: A Songwriter's Journey. Songs on the CD address issues pertaining to the environment, human rights and peace. A part of the profits will help support the artists and the environment programme sponsored by PFAWP and Recycle Hawai’i. A song from the CD Let Our Oceans Live, will also be released in support of World Ocean Day on 8 June.
For more information, please contact:
Howard Shapiro
Performing and Fine Artists for World Peace
artpeac@aloha.net
Website: www.artistsandpeace.org
P.O. Box 1050 Volcano
United States of America
Tel: 808-985-8725
Fax: 808-985-8725
E-mail: 2828 Kennedy Street NE
Minneapolis
United States of America
Tel: 651 222 7678
E-mail:
The Special Libraries Association (SLA) will organize its annual conference in Denver, from 3-7 June 2007, and Al Gore will be the speaker at the conference. To mark World Environment Day, the Petroleum Energy Resources Division and the Environmental Resources Management Division of SLA will host a special session on 5 June titled: Energy Issues: Global Climate Change and Renewable Resources. Speakers at that session will include Michael Shepard, President of Esource and staff scientists from NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratories).
Marlene Vogelsang
Petroleum and Energy Resources Division
Special Libraries Association
851 Howard St. San Francisco
California
United States of America
Tel: (1) 415 973 7206
E-mail: mxv6@pge.com
Website: www.sla.org
Concluding on World Environment Day, the Sustainable Operations Summit, produced by CraigMichaels, was developed to bring together key leadership from the United States' largest & most influential organizations to promote various initiatives that benefit the environment.
Jennifer Weinberg
CraigMichaels Inc
15 Maiden Lane 5th floor
New York
United States of America
Tel: 1 (212) 232 2408
Fax: 1 (212) 232 2401
E-mail: jweinberg@craigmichaelsinc.com
Website: www.craigmichaelsinc.com
To mark its first year and to celebrate World Environment Day, the newly formed Committee On the Environment will host speakers, activities, discussions, projects and a week-long carbon challenge to raise awareness about global warming and to learn how to reduce carbon emissions in very simple ways.
Max Watson
2nd grade
Committee On The Environment (COTE)
Allen-Stevenson School
900 Park Avenue, 18E
New York
United States of America
E-mail: mhoward@ecotech-intl.com
The Sierra Club Sacramento Group will celebrate World Environment Day 2007 by holding the Sacramento River City Run. This will be a 5 and 10 km run/walk that will benefit local sustainable living projects. It will be held on Sunday 3 June. Other than to celebrate World Environment Day, this Run will be a platform to increase awareness of health; our own and the planet’s. In its third year, the River City Run raised $15, 000, which was awarded to 13 local projects.
Kathy Ries
Sierra Club Sacramento Group
441 La Purissima Way Sacramento
United States of America
Tel: 1 (916) 739 6705
Fax: 1 (916) 739 6705
E-mail: director@rivercityrun.org
Website: www.rivercityrun.org
On World Environment Day 2007, a public event will be held to launch a Public Space Recycling Project at Mears Park in Saint Paul. This initiative is one of many to make Saint Paul a waste-free city by the year 2020. Public Art Saint Paul, Eureka Recycling, and the City of Saint Paul will partner with other community based organizations to create a sustainable and meaningful public recycling system in Saint Paul.
Lynn Hoffman
Eureka Recycling
info@eurekarecycling.org
Website: www.eurekarecycling.org
Portovert Magazine is a new, sustainable publication about eco-friendly weddings. The publication plans to raise environmental awareness on 5 June by creating a campaign for World Environment Day. The campaign will link the word WED with the concept of people taking actions on and after their wedding day to stop global warming.
Meghan Meyers
Portovert Magazine
2465 Centreville Rd, Ste 223
Herndon, VA 20171
Virginia
United States of America
Tel: 1 703 467 0378
E-mail: meghan@portovert.com
Website: www.portovert.com
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2007 Howard Shapiro, executive director of Performing and Fine Artists for World Peace (PFAWP), will release a music CD entitled Randon Notes: A Songwriter's Journey. Songs on the CD address issues pertaining to the environment, human rights and peace. A part of the profits will help support the artists and the environment programme sponsored by PFAWP and Recycle Hawai’i. A song from the CD Let Our Oceans Live, will also be released in support of World Ocean Day on 8 June.
Howard Shapiro
Performing and Fine Artists for World Peace
artpeac@aloha.net
Website: www.artistsandpeace.org
Global Events
NORWAYTromsø
Norway is honoured to host the international World Environment Day 2007 celebrations in recognition of the hot topic of melting ice. The main celebrations will be held in Tromsø, a city with a living polar history and a centre for polar research. The city has the world's northernmost university and the Norwegian Polar Institute, both of which are key players in the research arena.
WED will be celebrated the first week of June 2007 through the following events:
- Street celebrations
- Sofie Prize award
- International conference
- Courses, education
- Ecumenical ceremony
- Publications
- Youth film festival
For more information, please contact:
The Norwegian Polar Institute
Website: www.wed.npolar.no/world-environment-day-2007
E-mail: wed@npolar.no
AUSTRALIASydneyOn the occasion of World Environment Day 2007, Clean Up the World will invite its member organizations around the globe to conduct environmental activities with a focus on climate change.
Activities such as cleaning up local parks and waterways, planting trees, conducting walk-to-school or work days and organizing environmental education exercises will be undertaken. Member organizations will register their local activities with United Nations Environment Programme.
Clean Up the World is a non-profit, non-government, apolitical organization that unites communities with a common focus to clean up the world.
Now celebrating its 15th year, Clean Up the World, held in conjunction with the United Nations Environment Programme, mobilizes an estimated 35 million volunteers from more than 120 countries annually making it one of the largest community based environmental campaigns in the world.
While members’ activities can be conducted throughout the year, including on World Environment Day, Clean Up the World’s flagship event is the Clean Up the World Weekend, 14 - 16 September 2007. Organizations in any city, town or village across the globe can get involved by becoming a Clean Up the World Member.
For more information, please contact:
Tricia Wilden
Clean Up the World
18 Bridge Road
Sydney
Australia
Tel: 61 2 9692 0700
Fax: 61 2 9692 0761
E-mail: tricia@cleanup.com.au
Website: www.cleanuptheworld.org
FINLANDJoensuu
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2007 ENO Programme will stage a play called The Drops of Life. The play will advocate for cooperation in environmental protection through tree planting initiatives all over the world. The ENO Programme organizes an annual tree planting day every September to mark the International Day for Peace and is planning to stage The Drops of Life during this celebrations in various schools.
The play is an original idea from ENO Programme and is part of the initiatives of the ENO Tree Planting Campaign 2007. The manuscript is made by a Finnish writer and artist, Esko-Pekka Tiitinen and the music and the translation are by Mika Vanhanen. Children and youth from all over the world will perform the play which will last about 15-20 minutes and will include four songs which are available in 10 languages. The universal premier will be held on 29 May in every continent, in at least 65 countries to celebrate World Environment Day.For more information, please contact:
Mika Vanhanen
ENO-Environment Online
Pataluodonkatu 4
Joensuu
Finland
E-mail: mika@enoprogramme.org
Website: thedropsoflife.blogspot.com
FOR ADDITIONAL EVENTS AND RESOURCES ON WORLD ENVIROMENT DAY PLEASE VISIT THE United Nations Enviroment PROGRAMME
World Enviroment Day Link: