Earth Day promotes more than 140 actions around caring for nature
UFRPE, the Sabiá Center and a series of institutions that make up the Earth Day Network are promoting Earth Day 2024 from April 4 to 30. There will be more than 140 actions aimed at promoting reflection and solutions on Caring for Nature.
With the participation of representatives from governmental and non-governmental organizations, traditional peoples and communities, the Jornada aims to increase the visibility, awareness and engagement of social segments and public authorities in the fight to defend nature conservation in different biomes.
The program includes dialogue circles, workshops, exhibitions, cultural presentations, seedling planting, clean-up efforts, reforestation practices, solid waste reuse workshops, among other activities, in different municipalities and states in the Northeast, in urban and rural areas, in a decentralized and self-managed way. The opening panel will take place on April 4, online, at 3pm, on UFRPE’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/UFRPE official.
Among the activities are the Nature-based Solutions Course (SbN): science and technique; the Seminar and Dialogue: The problem of solid waste in society; the Aquaponics and Sustainability workshop; presentation of Productive walls with waste; Climate Expo ABA; Implementation of the Seed Bank in the MST’s Herbal Medicine Laboratory; and Meeting of Masters of Popular Cultures and Universities. Climatic aspects, preservation and conservation, agroecology, the use of waste and various other themes permeate the more than 140 actions being developed by the network of partner institutions.
Methodologically, the Jornada works as an inter-institutional and cross-sectoral network, where each institution autonomously proposes, disseminates, executes and coordinates activities, with the aim of strengthening dialogue, the exchange of knowledge and the realization of actions that contribute to caring for nature.
Fighting for socio-environmental justice and nature conservation is “enchantment that heals”.
MEMORY
This is the second edition of the event. In 2023, Earth Day Week was a big event at UFRPE, with the Panel Debate: Challenges and actions for the future of the planet, the presentation of the proposal to create the COOPERA Institute at UFRPE, as well as the institutionalization of Earth Day in the Pernambuco calendar by the Legislative Assembly, the launch of the Toró Institute – Climate, Technology and Culture, the signing of a letter of commitment to socio-ecological actions, among other actions.
Earth Day was celebrated for the first time on April 22, 1970, with approximately 20 million people taking part. In 2009, the United Nations (UN) accepted the Bolivian government’s proposal and set this date as International Mother Earth Day.
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