8th June, World Oceans Day

Different dates and celebrations, all related to the environment and the urge to protect it!
8th June marks World Oceans Day  and aims at raising awareness of the central role oceans play as a source of food, oxygen and medicine. As in every situation, if we take action together, we can protect the oceans and prevent more and more garbage, especially plastic: no more plastic bags when shopping, no more flowers wrapped in plastic, no more plastic bottles!!!! Plastic! Plastic!!! We are surrounded by plastic bags, toys, bottles... so much plastic that there is already a plastic patch 2x the size of Texas / US floating in the Pacific Ocean!!! Have a look at this mockumentary narrated by Jeremy Irons following the life cycle of a plastic bag. It's incredible!

Unbelievable, right? The largest garbage damp is in the Pacific Ocean. Now watch shocking numbers and images of that Pacific garbage patch and animals:


What do you do to protect the environment? The oceans? To avoid more plastic production and consumption?

Happy World Oceans Day, y'all!

5th June, World Environment Day

Celebrated for the first time in 1973, World Environment Day (WED), takes place every 5th June to raise global awareness to protect planet Earth. However, there is a different theme each year. Can you infer this year's theme?

"Think Eat Save: Reduce your Foodprint" - that's this year's theme and call on all of us.
Especially now that times are hard with so many unemployed people, this call should definitely be heard just like Food Banking. Food Banking fights Hunger, reduces Food waste and helps the Environment by not increasing landfill areas and not releasing so much methane gas.
Talking about the environment and landfills, let me share with you this inspiring example from Paraguay that everything is possible where there's a will!

Happy World Environment Day!!!

International Children's Day 2013

To mark this year's International Children's Day, a lovely poem on the origin of life and joys of raising a family.

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Beginnings

In the beginning

was one. 

Crouched in a cave

where bats first hung,

where webs were firs woven,

dreams first spun,

crouched one,

alone.

And then one day

into the gloom

another came;

the fire was lit

the cave was warmed,

the howl of the wind

became a song

and two

were one.

Soon winter passed,

and into the sun

from the dark of the cave

one summer dawn

crept three:

the third was a child in arms,

the three were

                                       a family, new-born.

Judith Nicholls in All in the Family Poems collected by John Foster

Happy International Children's Day, y'all!