Diary international 2008

Diary international - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2020

January 2008

• 15 Wikipedia Day

• 26 World Social Forum 2008 - another world is possible

February 2008

• 2 World Wetlands Day, Wetlands and wildlife in the UK

March 2008

• 8 United Nations Day for Women's Rights and International Peace, recognized by the UN

• 20 World Citizens Day, World Unity Day

• 21 Blackout World / Blackout Britain

• 22 UN World Day for Water / Water

• 29 Earth Hour

• 29 Lights Out America

Earth Hour 2008. Added: December 18, 2007. 3 mins.

April 2008

• 7 World Health Day 2008: Protecting health from the adverse affects of climate change

• 19 - 22 BYOBlue (Bring your own blue) - wear BLUE for Earth Day 2008 to VOTE for No Coal

• 22 Earth Day / Earth

• 27 Arbor Day

• 29 International Dance Day, International Dance Day / Arts and culture

May 2008

• 4 International Dawn Chorus Day

• 4 - 10 International Composting Awareness Week

• 6 World Asthma Day, World Asthma Day 2007 / Environment quality, Health

• 10 World Fair Trade Day, World Fair Trade Day / Fair Trade

• 22 World Biodiversity Day, International Day for Biological Diversity / Biodiversity

• 25 Africa day, Department for International Development (UK)

June 2008

• 5 World Environment Day, World Environment Day / Environmental wellbeing

• 8 World Ocean Day

July 2008

• 5 ICA International Co-operative Day / United Nations International Day of Co-operatives, theme for 2008, "Confronting Climate change through Cooperative Enterprise"

• 11 World Population Day, recognized by the UN

August 2008

• 17 - 23 World Water Week / Water

• 24 International Kitchen Garden Day

September 2008

• 11 - 21 11 Days of Global Unity

• 12 Interdependence Day

• 19 - 21 Clean Up the World Weekend

• 21 International Day of Peace, recognized by the UN

• 22 (World) Car Free Day / Reduced dependence on cars

• 22 One Web Day - a global day to celebrate online life / Communities online, Global connections

• 28 Right to Know Day

• 28 World Rivers Day 2008

October 2008

• 1 World Vegetarian Day

• 2 International Day of Non-Violence, recognized by the UN, observed on Mohandas Gandhi's birthday

• 16 World Food Day / Food

• 17 International Day for the Eradication of Poverty / Poverty

• 18 -19 OpenSustainabilityCamp 2008, San Francisco. This is a BarCamp style conference about free content and knowledge sharing in sustainability, international development, appropriate technology and solutions to poverty. It is open to all those interested in these issues.

November 2008

• 1 World Vegan Day

• 16 International Day for Tolerance, recognized by the UN

• 28 Buy Nothing Day, North America

• 29 Buy Nothing Day International (outside North America)

• Eurizons 2008: A Call for Climate Justice, Hitchhiking Campaign to the COP 14 (5.-6.12.08) and exhibition 'Voices from the South' in Poznań, Poland.

December 2008

• Eurizons 2008: A Call for Climate Justice, Hitchhiking Campaign to the COP 14 (5.-6.12.08) and exhibition 'Voices from the South' in Poznań, Poland.

• 1 - 12 COP-14, Poznań, Poland. [1] United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ^W

• 6 International Demonstrations on Climate Change, Video

• 6 Sustainable Community Action wiki's 4th birthday!

Year and decades

2008

• International Year of Planet Earth is a 2008 international observance, declared by the 60th United Nations General Assembly. The Year's activities will span the three years 2007-2009. / Earth
• International Year of the Potato
• International Year of Sanitation

Decades

• 2005 to 2014 United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development / Education
• 2005 to 2015 Water for Life Decade /  H₂O

Related Wikipedia content

• List of environmental dates
• International observance

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