Seeking Creative Theme Ideas for Our Office's World Environment Day Celebration

We are planning to have an activity in our office on "World Environment Day." Can you please suggest any themes or concepts for that? I am eagerly waiting for your reply.

Thanks & Regards,
Rajasekar

Our company is a leather export company with several factories in Kolkata. Today in the afternoon, I am conducting a program where we will be planting saplings on Monday, 6th June in all the factory compounds. All the employees are very enthusiastic about this initiative. The program will last about 15 minutes at each location, and the plantation will be carried out by the workers themselves. We will also take some photographs to display on the notice board.

Regards,
Somdatta Neogi
Kolkata, W.B.

Thank you for your reply. You have picked up a good activity that suits your industry. However, I am working in the IT sector. Do you have any other suggestions? We can spend a maximum of 30 minutes on this activity.

Regards,
Rajasekar

Well, I do not believe that you have to be in a particular industry for planting trees. Anyways, you can organize a PowerPoint (PPT) presentation on Mother Earth and the Need to Save the Environment and show it on a projector, maybe in the evening. Then, you can request the director to plant a tree at the entrance of the office or perhaps place two or three pots at the entrance, and gather all employees for this activity. It will take a maximum of 20 minutes.

Regards,
Somdatta

World Environment Day Themes

For your information, please find below the themes and host cities for World Environment Day over the years:

- **1974:** Only One Earth
- **1975:** Human Settlements
- **1976:** Water: Vital Resource for Life
- **1977:** Ozone Layer Environmental Concern; Lands Loss and Soil Degradation
- **1978:** Development Without Destruction
- **1979:** Only One Future for Our Children - Development Without Destruction
- **1980:** A New Challenge for the New Decade: Development Without Destruction
- **1981:** Ground Water; Toxic Chemicals in Human Food Chains
- **1982:** Ten Years After Stockholm (Renewal of Environmental Concerns)
- **1983:** Managing and Disposing Hazardous Waste: Acid Rain and Energy
- **1984:** Desertification
- **1985:** Youth: Population and the Environment
- **1986:** A Tree for Peace
- **1987:** Environment and Shelter: More Than A Roof, Nairobi, Kenya
- **1988:** When People Put the Environment First, Development Will Last, Bangkok, Thailand
- **1989:** Global Warming; Global Warning, Brussels, Belgium
- **1990:** Children and the Environment, Mexico City, Mexico
- **1991:** Climate Change. Need for Global Partnership, Stockholm, Sweden
- **1992:** Only One Earth, Care and Share, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- **1993:** Poverty and the Environment - Breaking the Vicious Circle, Beijing, People's Republic of China
- **1994:** One Earth One Family, London, United Kingdom
- **1995:** We the Peoples: United for the Global Environment, Pretoria, South Africa
- **1996:** Our Earth, Our Habitat, Our Home, Istanbul, Turkey
- **1997:** For Life on Earth, Seoul, Republic of Korea
- **1998:** For Life on Earth - Save Our Seas, Moscow, Russian Federation
- **1999:** Our Earth - Our Future - Just Save It!, Tokyo, Japan
- **2000:** The Environment Millennium - Time to Act, Adelaide, Australia
- **2001:** Connect with the World Wide Web of Life, Torino, Italy and Havana, Cuba
- **2002:** Give Earth a Chance, Shenzhen, People's Republic of China
- **2003:** Water – Two Billion People are Dying for It!, Beirut, Lebanon
- **2004:** Wanted! Seas and Oceans – Dead or Alive?, Barcelona, Spain
- **2005:** Green Cities – Plan for the Planet!, San Francisco, United States
- **2006:** Deserts and Desertification - Don't Desert Drylands!, Algiers, Algeria
- **2007:** Melting Ice – a Hot Topic?, Tromsø, Norway
- **2008:** Kick The Habit - Towards A Low Carbon Economy, Wellington, New Zealand
- **2009:** Your Planet Needs You - UNite to Combat Climate Change, Mexico City, Mexico
- **2010:** Many Species. One Planet. One Future, Kigali, Rwanda
- **2011:** Forests: Nature at your Service, New Delhi, India

Best Regards

Environment Week Celebrations

Our environment week celebrations include the following activities:

- **Day 01: 06.06.2011**: Planting of saplings by CMD, Green Oath, and distribution of saplings to staff.
- **Day 02: 07.06.2011**: Speech by a famous environmentalist.
- **Day 03: 08.06.2011**: Inter-departmental Quiz & Car/Bike-free day.
- **Day 04: 09.06.2011**: Friends of Earth - Class on the use of waste to save energy (For Ladies).
- **Day 05: 10.06.2011**: Movie - "An Inconvenient Truth."
- **Day 06: 11.06.2011**: Balajanasakhyam – Elocution Competition.

Regards

If you have a presentation on the topic "Mother Earth and the need to save the environment," please request to share it with us.

You have already received great ideas from various members. @biss has given unique ideas. The Bike/Car-free departmental competition and all are new ideas for me. Thanks, biss, for providing the same.

I believe that you might have already finished the Environment Day celebrations. Why are you starting up such a delayed discussion on the topic? Are you planning to conduct anything more as part of this WED? Just to know the purpose, hence asking.

Our WED 2011 Celebrations

We have celebrated WED 2011 with the following events:

1. Quiz for employees
2. Quiz for children
3. Poster and Slogan competition among various categories of children
4. Drama Competition among departments
5. Tree Plantation

Regards

You should have such kinds of activities. You can use "Go Green with Technology," "Making Office Green and Fresh," and "Living with a Green Future."

Is this activity open to all? Can others participate in it as well?

Thank you.

Save Earth by Planting Medicinal Saplings

Save the environment by not cutting trees in the name of development. 

Thank you for your contribution to preserving our planet.

Regards