Earth Day in CARACAS
EARTH DAY WEEK IN CARACAS, VENEZUELA
ORGANIZERS:
UNIMET- VITALIS is organizing several events around Caracas.
Contact:
Diego Diaz Martin
Location: Botanic Garden Auditorium of Caracas
Theme: Announcing the program for Earth Day Week in Caracas
Movie-Discussion “Al Día con la Tierra” (at Time with the Earth)
Date: April 21, 2008
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Location: UNIMET Auditorium
Theme: Youth groups from Universities will make a vow as Citizens of the World and will introduce
Beja Contest 2008.
Youth groups from 10 different universities of Venezuela, publics and privates, will be committed as Citizens of the World, program that has been coordinated by VITALIS since 2002 and now it counts with 400 members committed with the conservation and defense of our planet, with the support of multiples organizations, publics and privates.
In this meeting the students will formulate their recommendations to conserve the planet, in particular to save energy, to reduce the production of waste, to save water, to conserve the biodiversity and to reduce the contamination, among others.
Date: April 22, 2008
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Location: UNIMET Auditorium
Theme: Movie - Discussion
An Inconvenient Truth – Al Gore
Biodiversity Threatened – BBC World Series
Date: April 23, 2008
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Location: Botanic Garden of Caracas
Theme: Committing children and teenagers as Citizens of the World.
VITALIS, with the support of Mercantil Bank Foundation and the Foundation of the Botanic Institute of Venezuela, will do the IV Commitment of about 200 children and teenagers from different schools (publics and private), as Citizens of the World. This program has been coordinated by VITALIS since 2002, and until now it has committed more than 400 Venezuelan people with the defense and conservation of our planet.
In this meeting the students will formulate their recommendations to conserve the planet, in particular to save energy, to reduce the production of waste, to save water, to conserve the biodiversity and to reduce the contamination, among others.
Date: April 25, 2008
An event to mark the day April 22 was Earth Day. It is a tradition started by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson with the first Earth Day in April 1970. Earth Day Canada was started in 1990.

In Central Park, New York, the "Green Apple festival" marked the event. In Buenos Aires an "an entertainment event with an awareness component."

An earth fair was also held in Catalunya, Spain. The earth day website says that "the theme for this year's edition is the Fight Against Genetically Modified Organism which Poison the Planet."

Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, also held an event to mark the day. This event is similar to an event last year that marked last year's earth day.

Another image of the events There were also events to mark the day in Caracas, Venezuela. The Earth Day website said "youth groups from Universities will make a vow as Citizens of the World and will launch Beja Contest 2008," in its description of these events.

There were also events in Chicago. According to the Earth Day website, Lincoln Park Zoo hosted some of these events.

Events in Tokyo, Japan also marked the day. The Earth Day website says that the "booth and Event Area within Yoyogi Park" hosted the event.

Other places across the world also marked the day. The Earth day website says that "Earth Day 2008 is expected to be the biggest yet, From Tokyo to Togo, to our flagship event on the National Mall in Washington, DC and 7 other U.S. cities, we will be galvanizing millions of people around the world behind a Call for Climate, our global warming action theme. "

Jim Connaughton, the chairman of Council on Environmental Quality for the US government, described Earth Day and explained how it was founded. Below is his description:




Connaughton also described what George W. Bush is doing to mark the event: