Inicios
Todo surgió el 28 de enero de 1969, cuando una plataforma petrolífera del Pacífico derramó por 11 días cerca de 100 mil barriles de petróleo crudo en el Canal de Santa Bárbara y las playas del condado del mismo nombre, ubicado en el sur de California. A consecuencia de esto, miles de aves, delfines, focas y otros animales marinos murieron intoxicados con el crudo.
Para entonces, éste era el derrame de petróleo más grande ocurrido en aguas de Estados Unidos. El desastre inspiró al exsenador Gaylord Nelson de Wisconsin (fallecido el 3 de julio de 2005 a los 89 años) a emprender un movimiento social para prevenir la contaminación del aire y el agua.
Luego de mucho esfuerzo, el 22 de abril de 1970, en un día del equinoccio de primavera en el hemisferio norte, más de 20 millones de personas en el país salieron a las calles a manifestarse a favor de un medio ambiente saludable y sostenible.
La presión social tuvo sus frutos. Ese mismo año, el gobierno de entonces presidente Richard Nixon creó la Agencia de Protección Medio Ambiental (EPA), con la misión de proteger el medio ambiente y la salud pública; el congreso de Estados Unidos promulgó el Acta del Aire Limpio (Clean Air Act) con el objetivo de establecer estándares seguros sobre calidad del aire, emisiones y polución contaminante y el senador Nelson fundó la Red del Día de la Tierra (EDN), que como institución de carácter global promueve la celebración del Día de la Tierra con el objetivo de reflexionar y actuar en pro de toda actividad que proteja al medio ambiente.
A partir de entonces, el Día de la Tierra se celebra cada 22 de abril en 193 países alrededor del mundo, que integran la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU).
En este día se realizan festivales que celebran a la Madre Tierra y se tienen marchas, simposios y talleres educativos que exponen los problemas que traen la superpoblación y la producción de contaminación y crean conciencia sobre la importancia de proteger el planeta a nivel personal y colectivo e instituir políticas para erradicar las acciones que amenazan al medio ambiente.
Vamos a celebrar, ¿Qué animal eres?
Como ya no tiene acostumbrado Google nos brinda su Doodle para esta ocasión, el mismo es un cuestionario en cual al contestarlo te da como resultado final que tipo de animal eres y que cualidades tienes. Para realizar haz clic en la imagen.
I just think constantly fearing the worst can make your brief stay on this planet well, not an altogether pleasant one. No one wants to be constantly looking over their shoulder. Year over year gross margin improvement was primarily due to the mix benefit of higher margin LMA product sales, as well as the continued benefit we’re seeing from price increases. And while in line with our internal expectations, the decline in year over year adjusted operating margin was due to the inclusion of the medical device excise tax and expenses associated with businesses that were acquired after the first quarter of 2012 that were not in our prior year results..
Sometimes I wonder if these guys (the NSA) are pulling our legs with the names of some of these things. I mean, «CM I has the ability to communicate to other CM devices over the RL link using an over the air protocol called ‘SPECULATION'» . The back wall of the SOC is often transparent, with a room attached to this wall which is used by team members to meet while able to watch events unfolding in the SOC. Individual desks are generally assigned to a specific group of systems, technology or geographic area.
In the afternoon, the Secretary General gave a press conference to outline some of the discussions during the two day Ministerial. He highlighted progress made preparing for ISAF’s post 2014 Afghanistan mission, where he pledged that the Afghans «will not stand alone.
First thing I learned in this business is that when it is acceptable people would want to age in place, meaning live in their homes with whatever help, be it homecare and/or technology, they need for as long as they can. America’s aging population is increasing and there is also an ongoing shortage of homecare aides to help this burgeoning group do what they want, which is to stay comfortably in their own homes..
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amazing night. My dad took me and my friends for a delicious dinner.