6/5 世界環境日

http://www.unep.org/wed/2009/chinese/content/about.asp 中文版
World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.

Commemorated yearly on 5 June, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. The day's agenda is to:

1. Give a human face to environmental issues;面對環境議題
2. Empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development;永續且公平的發展
3. Promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues;社區是關鍵
4. Advocate partnership which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future.夥伴關係

世界生物多樣性日

今天是世界生物多樣性日；第一個喊出「生物多樣性」一詞的，正是哈佛大學的愛德華威爾森教授。
威爾森的所許的願望是：「我們來共同創建一個重要的工具──《生命大百科》（Encyclopedia of Life），激發更多人來保存地球上的生物多樣性。」
《生命大百科》可說是生物學的登月大計畫，準備將地球上180萬個生物物種，一物一頁，佐以豐富的圖片和影音，詳實描述它們的棲身環境及生活習性，最後還會經由專家鑑定。如Google搜尋引擎一樣，在世界的任何角落，每個人、任何時間，都可以上網查索研究。
http://e-info.org.tw/node/43320
The International Day for Biological Diversity
http://www.cbd.int/

世界公平貿易日

每年5月第二個週六是世界公平貿易日，台灣在今年的5月9日舉行第二屆慶祝活動，並首度展開國際串連，同時向世界傳達一項重大訊息：
國際公平貿易協會（International Federation of Alternative Trade，IFAT）
於2008年正式改名為WFTO（World Fair Trade Organization）。

「Big Bang - Beat！為世界而鼓噪」是這次活動的主題，
由此延伸的是公平貿易內在三個核心概念：打擊貧窮、氣候變遷、經濟危機。
BIG BANG!! something (anything) with spoons, sticks, hands, fingers, friends, family, neighbours, a crowd, an audience, a solution. Beat poverty beat climate change beat economic crisis.
http://www.worldfairtradeday09.org/

Change!

We can no longer afford indifference to suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

- US President Barack Obama in his Inaugural speech

Earth's energy budget

太陽資本的平衡摘自wiki (earth's energy budget)