Earth Day 2012: Events Around The World

What are you doing for Earth Day this year? On Sunday April 22, the world will celebrate the 42nd annual Earth Day, a global event meant to celebrate the Earth and raise awareness for environmental causes.

No matter where you live, there are plenty of things to do on Earth Day. The EPA has a guide here to help you find activities for Earth Day. The EPA also encourages Americans to "own" the environment and "commit to environmental protection as one of your top priorities." If you're not heading outdoors for Earth Day, check out this list of movies to watch with children on Earth Day.

Click here to check out activities from last year's Earth Day. Read up on Earth Day activities below and tweet us what you're doing for Earth Day @HuffPostGreen.

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Comments

[Anggraini]

03:21 AM on 05/24/2012

This video touch me deeply. For that beauty, people can do everything to save it.

[Sharon Shariatzadeh]

04:25 PM on 05/21/2012

The last time I went to "earth day" was in Miami. There were a ton of vendors. All of the food containers were styrafoam. What a joke!

[roseofgreen]

10:21 PM on 05/07/2012

AH, the American dream is no longer. And ,by the way, it hasn't been available to the original people of this continent for a long long time.

[politician818]

02:45 AM on 04/23/2012

I grilled a spotted owl for Earth Day this year!

[roseofgreen]

10:22 PM on 05/07/2012

You are a perfect example to enforce strict Birth Control.

[DavidEvan]

01:16 AM on 04/23/2012

For earth day I pretended to be a mushroom. Appropriate since its pouring rain all day.

[liberalpolicysucks]

01:05 AM on 04/23/2012

For Earth Day, I filled my gas tank. Figured it was appropriate

[NoQuarter472]

09:50 PM on 04/22/2012

Another perpetrated Gorist revival, enhanced by the UN and the EPA, make sure you have your umbrella with you so it will thwart the water squirting up your leg, misslabeled as Bottled Water.

[Mercedes]

07:47 PM on 04/22/2012

Today could be the start of a few small things we all can do to keep our Earth a bit healthier.

1) Don't buy so many plastic water bottles--it's better to drink tap water, if possible instead of spending so much money on useless plastic water bottles that basically ARE filled with tap water and have a fancy name on the label.

2) Clean up after yourself in public places. Use trash containers, recycle containers, or just take your non food trash home to sort through it there. It will keep our parks and streets a bit cleaner and will make a better habitat for our wildlife.

3) Drive less! If possible, instead of driving somewhere that is less than a few blocks from where you live, try walking instead. When you get used to walking you will feel better and you may even lose a pound or two if you do it regularly. Or try taking the bus a few times per month. You WILL save money too, by not 'feeding' your car so much gasoline!

Love,
Mercedes :)

[aforbes808]

06:37 PM on 04/22/2012

Thank you Mother Earth for your bountiful gifts. Once you have shaken us off, I hope you give rise to a species that appreciates the Eden you truly are. R.I.P. humans. It was a nice ride.

[jgoz123]

06:33 PM on 04/22/2012

It's earth day? Don't care

[open2facts]

06:42 PM on 04/22/2012

Well, it doesn't measure up to Super Bowl Sunday in hype and hoopla, but I hope you mean that you don't care about Earth Day and not that you don't care about Earth? I mean where would we have our tailgate parties when it's not around.

[DavidEvan]

01:17 AM on 04/23/2012

well sad

[Johngy]

06:32 PM on 04/22/2012

And in that day they will worship the creation and not the Creator.

[open2facts]

06:46 PM on 04/22/2012

My parents always told me to take care of my things, clean my room, and take out the trash, and stay away from bullies--I hated it when I was a kid but now that I'm grown I worship the guidance they gave me.

[candalou2]

07:50 PM on 04/22/2012

well said

[jb1215]

06:31 PM on 04/22/2012

Earth Day founder, Ira Einhorn, is currently serving life in a Pennsylvania for brutally murdering his girlfriend and storing her body in a trunk in a closet in his apartment. He continued to live in that apartment until, the fluids from her mumified decompositon leaked into the apartment below.

Earther's first run at compost too.

[MInchau]

06:47 PM on 04/22/2012

What is your point? Because some whack job was involved with it's founding, should those of us who care about the state of our planet ignore Earth Day and drop the cause.

[jb1215]

07:38 PM on 04/22/2012

By all means, you'd cause no harm ignoring a meaningless named day that can not and will not ever result in anything but self-congratulation for caring. That's coupled with the egotistical belief that those who aren't as publicly demonstrative, aren't.

Most sane people care, but are not so inclined to follow fools who still can't justify their scientific positions with the implementation of the scientic method, by which all real science is established.

Look into Einhorn's saga. He was worshiped as a visionary by the radical left, and corporate wannabees. He was smoke and mirrors, BUT it took his brutal crime to have most look beyond his vapidity. Check and see how many helped him live on the run for years, including foreign governments, because of his politics. There is more to my post than Einhorn, the malignant person. It's the embraced bogus philosophy that can cause people to ignore basic humanity for the sake of junk science backed by a failing political ideology. Have a nice Earth Day.

[DavidEvan]

01:29 AM on 04/23/2012

When the Earth is psychotic I worry. By polluting it we are making it so.

[jb1215]

02:05 AM on 04/23/2012

Well, fortunately there are prescription medications for that. No sweat!

[trish333]

06:12 PM on 04/22/2012

"If I wanted America to fail....I'd invent false markets and devise fictitious products like carbon credits and trade them in imaginary markets"

[Changeover]

06:15 PM on 04/22/2012

And  I would stop drilling on Federal Land, stop pipelines, build garage burning battery's on wheels and make the taxpayer spend a couple of trillion for no return.   Mothball all plans for spaceships and become flexible to Russia.  Nasa is now speaking Russian because they have to.

[trish333]

06:17 PM on 04/22/2012

Yep. Watch the video I posted below.

[trish333]

06:17 PM on 04/22/2012

Pass it on. ;)

[Kenz300]

06:10 PM on 04/22/2012

We all need clean air, clean water and safe food to eat.

There once was a time when rivers caught fire in the US.

Being Green and protecting the environment protects your health and saves money in the long run.

[trish333]

06:05 PM on 04/22/2012

"If I wanted America to fail....I'd start with energy":

http://freemarketamerica.org/

[aforbes808]

06:33 PM on 04/22/2012

Free Market America? That's a joke, right? You can fool some of the people all of the time.

Psst, You forgot to add Free Market America is a project of Americans for Limited Government and Citizens for Lower Taxes and a Stronger Economy.

[gulamon]

08:54 PM on 04/22/2012

Great video - thanks !