The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Saturday April 22nd, 2023 – Mother Earth Day
Earth Day is a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. It was founded by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in held on April 22, 1970 and is celebrated in more than 175 countries every year. Earth Day is celebrated in spring in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn in the Southern Hemisphere. Many communities celebrate Earth Week, an entire week of activities focused on environmental issues.
While the first Earth Day was focused entirely on the United States, an organization launched by Denis Hayes—the original national coordinator in 1970—took it international in 1990 and organized events in 141 nations. Earth Day is now observed each year on April 22 in virtually every country on Earth. Earth Day is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network. World Environment Day, celebrated on June 5 in a different nation every year, is the principal United Nations environmental observance.
Earth: Our Common Home by Rene Wadlow
International Mother Earth Day on 22 April each year was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 2009. Its aim is to promote living in harmony with Nature and to achieve a just balance among the economic, social, and environmental needs of the present and future generations. The concept of living in harmony with Nature was seen by the U.N. delegates as a way “to improve the ethical basis of relationship between humankind and our planet.”
The United Nations began its focus on ecological issues with the preperations for the 1972 Conference in Stockholm and has continued with the 1992 Rio Declaration followed by the Rio plus 20 Conference 20 years later. However, the concept of living in harmony with Nature is relatively new as a U.N. political concept. Yet it is likely to be a concept increasingly used by both governmental policy makers and in non-governmental organization efforts.
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Flowers In Bloom #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“Flowers
Do not bloom
In concrete,
They do not bloom
In steel and glass,
They do not bloom
In cold city streets
In construction sites
In alleyways
And empty lots.”
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A fistful of cactus #53 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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