Earth Day 2011 Celebrate!!!

What is Earth Day?

Earth Day is a day that is intended to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's natural environment.

Now, Earth Day is becoming one of the most important hallmarks in the world of conservation and recycling. It carries with it powerful connotations of ecological responsibility and taking ownership of our planet; after all, it is the only Earth that we have, and taking steps to lessen the impact that you and your fellow man have on it is nothing short of revolutionary.

Earth Day gives those people who have not taken part in recycling the opportunity to make changes to their lives and their community that they will cherish for a lifetime.  Many organized groups have adopted a pay as you throw program in their local communities.

Use Clear Recycling Bins at Earth Day Events

You can help celebrate earth day this year by attending a national or community-recycling event. This will help support all of the volunteers and organizers to show them that you really care. If you don’t have an event scheduled in your community this earth day April 22nd, then you can organize one yourself. Be sure to have the correct recycling containers and recycling bins ordered and on hand ahead of time.  You’ll need different containers for different materials. You can learn more about different types of Event Recycling Containers here.

Attend an Earth Day Event

With Earth Day 2011 and Earth Day 2012, there are a great number of amazing events planned all around the world – communities’ band together to help each other and make some positive strides toward protecting the environment. There are recycling drives, teach-ins, and rallies that are set to go throughout the United States, and you have the opportunity to be a part of that.

For example, World Fest 2011 is a California based festival that takes the principle of stretching Earth Day out into an essential part of your lifestyle to a whole new level. Celebrities and musicians work together with volunteers and sponsors to create an event that will help inform others about what to take back to their communities to help them conserve and recycle. New technologies and legislation are discussed and announced, and many keynote speakers take the stage to let you know how you can be a part of this amazing movement.

Earth Day – Brief History

On April 22, 1970, Gaylord Nelson, a United States Senator, founded the first Earth Day in an attempt to bring about a better understanding of the affect we have on our planet, and calling us to take action to make positive environmental changes in our community. The first Earth Day was attended by 20 million Americans nationwide, from college campuses to town halls, and giant teach-ins were organized in New York City and Philadelphia, the latter event turning into a seven-day event known as Earth Week.
This small attempt to start something of this scale on the national level brought millions of people to band together in their neighborhoods, starting grassroots campaigns to help revolutionize the way we handled waste, recycling, power consumption, and conservation in general. That event set a powerful precedent for the rest of the world, eventually inspiring more than 140 nations all around the globe to have their own Earth Days.
By the year 1990, over 200 million people on Earth were participating in the event, making it one of the most-attended organizational activities ever created, even being called “the largest secular holiday in the world” by the Earth Day Network, the nonprofit organization that is in charge of the event on an annual basis since its inception in 1990.