World Environment Day is an annual event that is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. Let's organize a neighborhood clean-up, stop using plastic bags and get your community to do the same, stop food waste, walk to work, start a...
The summer solstice is the longest day and shortest night of the year, respectively, in the sense that the length of time elapsed between sunrise and sunset on this day is a maximum for the year. According to the astronomical definition of the seasons, the summer solstice also marks the beginning...
Aphelion Day is the day that the Earth and Sun are at their furthest distance from each other. Every July the Earth is at aphelion, the furthest from the Sun for the year and in January it is at perihelion, the closest to the Sun for the year. The Earth's annual orbit around the Sun will...
July 29th may be just another day to the rest of the world, but to the residents of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania (USA), it has a special significance that is passed along from generation to generation. Rain Day got its beginning in the Daly & Spraggs Drug Store, located in the center of...
World Water Monitoring Day was established in 2003 by America's Clean Water Foundation as a global educational outreach program that aims to build public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around the world by empowering citizens to carry out basic monitoring of their local...
December 12th is Poinsettia Day celebrating the beautiful plant we've come to associate with Christmas. The date marks the death of Joel Roberts Poinsett, an American botanist, physician and Minister to Mexico who in 1828 sent cuttings of the plant he'd discovered in Southern Mexico to his home in...