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Planeta.com Issues Earth Day 2010 Challenge

EARTH DAY WIKI

Publication date: April 2010

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Planeta.com invites friends to share photos of eco-friendly cities, food and beloved trees as part of this year's celebration of Earth Day which take place around the world between March 21 and April 22.

"We recommend celebrating Earth Day every day of the year," said Planeta.com founder Ron Mader. "This year we issue a photo challenge - to post pictures in different Flickr Groups that highlight environmental issues. We'll feature our favorites in the Earth Day Gallery."

Social events included the April 21 Respontour's Responsible Tourism Networking meeting.

Planeta.com is also conducting a global inventory of how e-waste is recycled.

ABOUT EARTH DAY

Earth Day celebrations take place in March and April. Two celebrations are better than one! Among the mantras the celebration has inspired: Think globally, act locally, respond personally.

MARCH 21 - The United Nations marks Earth Day each year on the vernal equinox (March 21). This Earth Day was founded by John McConnell, a newspaper publisher, as well as the designer of the Earth Flag.

APRIL 22 - U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson introduced the idea to then President John F. Kennedy in the 1960s. Concerned about the lack of national focus on environmental issues, Nelson came up with the idea of an annual date to celebrate the Earth and the environment. Earth Day proved extremely popular. The first Earth Day attracted two thousand colleges and universities, ten thousand high schools and grade schools, and several thousand communities in all, more than twenty million Usians. The celebration has gone global.

PHOTO CHALLENGE

Flickr is featured in Planeta.com's guide to improving environmental journalism. If you want to show the world how eco (or not eco) things are in your corner of the world, register on Flickr and upload to any of the following groups: