St. John's
The government of Antigua and Barbuda hosted their first World Environment Day ceremony in the country’s only botanical garden and organized an inter-school street parade. Presently there are thirteen schools on this twin island state which have an environmental programme called the Environmental Cadet Programme. Students from these schools marched with placards written with environmental tips through the streets of St. John's.
Belmopan
In commemoration of World Environment Day 2007, the Ministry of Natural Resources & the Environment, along with its inter-sectorial and non-governmental partners, hosted several environmental education activities highlighting the need to ensure environmental health while enabling national development. These activities which led up to World Environment Day, include a National Environmental Symposium to look at possible impacts of Climate Change on Belize and the launching of environmental education multimedia packages for students and teachers.
One of the primary activities has been the On-the-Spot Painting Competition, which began in April 2007. The Competition attracted some 420 arts students countrywide. The students were asked to draw or paint on the theme: Belizeans Changing Behaviors to Adapt to Climate Change. It was an ideal opportunity for teachers to introduce and encourage students to learn about Climate Change. Winners of the competition received prizes ranging from a computer and printer for their school to a bicycle and environmental educational packages. Additionally, the competition culminated in the display of all paintings at the House of Culture in Belize City, Orange Walk Town and Benque Viejo Town, commencing on 5 June.
For more information, please contact:
Violet Yorke
Ministry of Natural Resources & the Environment
Market Square
Belmopan
Belize
Tel: 501 822 3286
Fax: 501 822 2333
E-mail: info@mnrei.gov.bz
Website: www.mnrei.gov.bz
BRAZIL
Joinville - SC
Whirlpool S.A. Appliances, subsidiary to Whirlpool Corp. celebrated World Environment Day 2007 with workshops focusing on the company's initiative for sustainable development: Sustainability Trek. Environmental awareness was promoted with the message: We want a Living World Now in booklets and billboards. Other activities included a children's drawing competition and tree planting ceremony.
For more information, please contact:
Paulo Vodianitskaia
Whirlpool S.A.
Rua Dona Francisca 7200 Joinville - SC
Brazil
Tel: 55 47 3441 4514
E-mail: paulov@whirlpool.com
Website: www.whirlpool.com
São Paulo
To celebrate World Environment Day 2007 Alcan Packaging Brazil hosted a special information session for employees and gave each participant a plant to take home.
For more information, please contact:
Vanderlei Santos
Alcan Packaging Brazil
246 Av. Piraporinha, Caixa Postal 175,
Diadema, 09950-000, São Paulo (SP)
Brazil
E-mail: contact.pharmapackaging@alcan.com
Website: www.alcanpackaging.com
CHILE
Talcahuano
Thomas Jefferson School, a private high school, organized several activities for World Environment Day 2007. The activities included:
Two Assemblies, one for the elementary area and the other for the high school area
Presentation of different videos showing today's environmental situation and presenting this year's topic: Melting Ice – A Hot Topic
Runway show with costumes made by students from recycled materials
Musical presentation by different rock bands
Display of posters created to promote care for the environment.
The overall goal was to let the students know our planet is suffering and to learn more about how we can work together in order to save the planet.
For more information, please contact:
Constanza Cristina Cid Bassaletti
Thomas Jefferson School
Jorge Alessandri Parcela 26 Camino Aeropuerto Talcahuano
Chile
Tel: 56 41 2917386 and 56 41 2917387
Fax: 56 41 2917392
E-mail: contacto@jefferson.cl
Website: www.jefferson.cl
COLOMBIA
Barranquilla
To celebrate the World Environment Day 2007 Gelco S.A. organized a painting contest with its employees' children.
For more information, please contact:
Myriam Uribe
Gelco S.A.
Carrera 42 # 2 - 100 Barranquilla
Colombia
Tel: 5753446444
Fax: 5753446261
E-mail: gestioncalidad@gelco-s-a.com
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Delta Amarilis
World Environment Day 2007 was celebrated with a meeting on 5 June with Dominican Republic environment authorities to discuss an environment strategy and to plant 1,000 trees in the yard of the environment police. PACMA director Mr. Isaias Lara Kevelier opened the tree planting ceremony.
For more information, please contact:
Isaias Lara Kevelier
Communitarian Action for Environment (programa de Acción Comunitaria por el Medio Ambiente (PACMA)
Delta amarilis I 11 Santo Domingo Este
Dominican Republic
E-mail: oppacma@gmail.com
Website: www.acxm.blogspot.com
ECUADOR
Quito
An event named Second Environmental EncounterFIGEMPA was organized by the Environmental Engineering School with the help of GEO Juvenil Ecuador (Global Environmental Outlook for Youth - Ecuador) to celebrate the World Environment Day 2007. There were conferences, stands, music, scenic arts and other fun activities to participate in. The event focused on the topics Melting Ice - A Hot Topic and Waste Management.
For more information, please contact:
Pablo Astudillo
Universidad Central del Ecuador
Ingeniería Ambiental
Ciudad Universitaria Jerónimo Leiton y Av. La Gasca
Quito
Ecuador
Tel: 593-2-2566738
E-mail: p.astudilloe@gmail.com
Website: www.figempa.uce.edu.ec
MEXICO
Adolfo López Mateos
On the occasion of World Environment Day 2007 Adolfo López Mateos Elementary School carried out activities that included art made from recycled materials, a conference, a poster exhibition and waste collection.
For more information please contact:
María del Carmen Moreno
Escuela Secundaria Técnica Pesquera No. 20
Héroes de Chapultepec esq.
Adolfo López Mateos Alvarado
Mexico
Tel: 29797 30113
E-mail: alumnbios@yahoo.com.mx
Atizapan de Zaragoza
Tecnologico De Monterrey celebrated World Environment Day 2007 with 550 school children from 164 primary and secondary schools of Atizapan along with the Muinicpal Government of Atizapan Zaragoza. Prizes were awarded for the best environmental painting, music theme and poetry. The function was presided over by Hon. Ambassador Anna Lindstedt, Ambassador of Sweden in Mexico, along with the Municipal President of Atizapan Zaragoza, Mexico.
For more information, please contact,
Ilangovan Kuppusamy
Tecnologico De Monterrey
Km 3.5 Carr. Lago de Guadalupe Atizapan de Zaragoza
Mexico
Tel: 5255 58645555
Fax: 5255 5864 5555
E-mail: ikammal@itesm.mx
Website: www.itesm.mx
Oaxaca
As part of the global celebration of World Environment Day 2007, Planeta.com presented the annual Colibri Ecotourism Award to a leading catalyst working toward responsible travel and ecotourism in Mexico.
Quintana Roo In celebration of World Environment Day 2007, the Environment Agency of Solidaridad held a massive collect of recyclable waste that involved the community of Playa del Carmen, Akumal and Tulum. PET, glass, aluminum, electronic waste, and paper and cardboard were received. The latter was donated to the National Commission of Free Textbooks for the production of free curricular textbooks and educational materials. During the day people were offered varied workshops on creating handcrafts and toys from recyclable waste. This event was organized in coordination with environmental NGO's and private enterprises such as: Grupo Maremex, Publimedia, MOCE Yax Cuxtal, Flora, Fauna y Cultura de Mexico A.C., Mayan Resorts, Parque Xcaret, Centro Ecológico Akumal, Centro Ecológico de Sian Ka'an, Casa de la Cultura de Tulum.
In addition, the Environment Agency launched the Municipal Waste Separation Program by installing Clean Spots throughout the city of Playa del Carmen. These Clean Spots will be accessible places located in the parking lots of supermarkets and shopping centers where community members will be able to leave their separated domestic and office recyclable waste. This initiative was a breaking point for a series of strategies that the Environment Agency will promote in mitigating the present problems generated from the increasing amount of Municipal waste.
For more information, please contact:
Monica Alba Murillo
Dirección de Medio Ambiente
20 Av. entre 8 y 10 Norte, Colonia Centro
Playa del Carmen, Solidaridad
Quintana Roo
Mexico
Tel: (52) 984 677 30 50 Ext. 2104
E-mail: malba@solidaridad.gob.mx
Website: www.solidaridad.gob.mx
PANAMA
Panama City
To celebrate World Environment Day 2007 and to raise awareness, on 3 June Alianza Pro Ciudad organized a Walk for Our City family walk through the neighborhoods of Panama City. The city is suffering from disorderly constructions of high-rise buildings as part of an overwhelming real estate boom that is destroying the character of the city, its green spaces, including urban forests in the nearby Panama Canal area. The area is among the World Monuments Fund's 100 most threatened areas. The unplanned construction boom is also contributing to increasing air and water contamination and raising the average temperature, contributing to local and global climate change. Alianza Pro Ciudad is a group of citizens of Panama in favor of making Panama city a green clean city, to really live and grow in a healthy way. Several neighborhood associations and community-based organizations and environmental groups participated in the event.
For more information, please contact:
Azael Barrera
Alianza Pro Ciudad
Panama City
Panama
Tel: 507 317 0936
Email: azaelbarrera@yahoo.com
PERU
Arequipa Anthony celebrated World Environment Day 2007 by helping people with water problems. He made a house to house visit teaching people what they can do. He took some sample materials for them to experiment with water collecting through osmosis, evaporation, condensation methods, from underground sources as well as from the atmosphere.
Lima
Instituto Nueva Creacion celebrated World Environment Day 2007 by distributing pamphlets about World Environment Day and sending news to Christian institutions in Peru and around the world. The event was part of the organization’s project: TYC, Seminaries and Conferences on Theology and Sciences of Nature and Life, and it includes some events around the country until September, thanks to the sponsorship of the Concilio Nacional Evangélico del Perú (CONEP) and Metanexus Institute.
For more information, please contact:
Renan Sanchez
Instituto Nueva Creacion
Jr.Manco Capac 7232. Urb
El Trebol Los Olivos
Lima 39
Peru
Tel: (01)97662875
E-mail: administrador@nuevacreacion.info
Website: www.nuevacreacion.info
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Caroni
To celebrate World Environment Day 2007 Vishnu boys’ Hindu college in conjuction with UNESCO organized a walkathon on 2 June at Queens' Park Savannah. 40 students and 4 teachers participated. 18 students and 4 teachers participated in the Rio Secondary School hike at Emperor Valley Zoo organized to identify natural fauna and flora.
For more information, please contact:
Dev Pooma
Vishnu boys’ Hindu college
Southern Main Road, Caroni
Trinidad and Tobago
Tel: 868 645 7506
Fax: 868 645 7506
E-mail: hcsankar@tstt.net.tt
Couva To celebrate World Environment Day 2007, the local Global 500 forum organized a tree planting ceremony at the Learning Resource Centre, Couva, Trinidad. The Minister of Education, Senator Hazel Manning, Permanent Secretary, Mrs Marlene Felix and Bebe Ajodha, Global 500 laureate attended the ceremony.
For more information please contact:
Bebe Ajodha
Global 500 forum
Email: bajodha@hotmail.com
Couva
Ministry of Education Trinidad and Tobago organized an event to celebrate World Environment Day 2007. Schools that participated in this event were ASJA Girls college, San Fernando Naparima Girls High School, San Fernando Hill view College and Tunapuna San Fernando East Secondary.
For more information, please contact:
Henry Saunders
Ministry of Education
RCLRC Mc Bean, Couva
Trinidad and Tobago
Tel: 868-636-1057 ext 1073
Fax: 868-636-9296
E-mail: henrysau@gmail.com
Mayaro To mark World Environment Day 2007, Mayaro Environmental Wave carried out a beach clean-up. This was in partnership with corporate citizens to clean the Plaisance Beach front.
For more information, please contact:
Andy Paul
Mayaro Environmental Wave
Pierreville Mayaro
Trinidad and Tobago
Tel: 868 396 9898
E-mail: acpaul2@hotmail.com
Petit Valley
To mark World Environment Day 2007, Red Earth held a three- day arts festival that featured local musicians, artists, dancers from Brazil and Cayenne, and photographers. The organization collaborated with other NGOs to do a clean- up of garbage on the small islands off the coast of Trinidad. There was also capoeira workshops, a smoke ceremony by the descendants of the first settlers in Trinidad, the Caribs, talks on alternative energy sources, such as hemp and bio-diesel, star-gazing and hikes to a waterfall.
For more information, please contact:
Magella Moreau
Red Earth
241 Leo Bass Avenue
Petit Valley
Trinidad and Tobago
Tel: 1 868 788 5975
E-mail: redearthfestival@yahoo.com
Rio Claro
To mark World Environment Day 2007 a poster campaign focusing on the environment was launched on 5 June. Students conducted research on global warming and climate change and their effects on the environment. A second campaign, created by the students will be launched in August/September.
For more information, please contact:
Miriam Almeida
Avenida 16-A nr 284 Rio CLaro - SP
Trinidad and Tobago
E-mail: prof_miriamrc@hotmail.com
San Fernando
To celebrate World Environment Day 2007 ASJA Girls' College organized a poster competition. The posters were used in the school walkathon on 1 July. A Quiz on the topic: water a resource of life was organized. On 5 June there were presentations and awards of certificates for the winning posters.
For more information, please contact:
Aliyah Amarsingh
ASJA Girls' College
Park Street, San Fernando
Trinidad and Tobago
Tel: 868-65708402
Fax: 868-653-3581
E-mail: asja3335@tstt.net.tt
San Fernando
Naparima Girls High School celebrated World Environment Day 2007 with a poster display on global warming, screening of the videos: An Inconvenient Truth and Happy Feet, sale of animal-shaped cookies and writing newspaper articles.
For more information, please contact:
Sarsha Lall-soobrattee
Naparima Girls High School
4 La pique road San Fernando
Trinidad and Tobago
Tel: 868 652 2049
Fax: 868 652 2659
E-mail: naparima@tstt.net.tt
In celebration of World Environment Day 2007, the Environment Agency of Solidaridad held a massive collect of recyclable waste that involved the community of Playa del Carmen, Akumal and Tulum. PET, glass, aluminum, electronic waste, and paper and cardboard were received. The latter was donated to the National Commission of Free Textbooks for the production of free curricular textbooks and educational materials. During the day people were offered varied workshops on creating handcrafts and toys from recyclable waste. This event was organized in coordination with environmental NGO's and private enterprises such as: Grupo Maremex, Publimedia, MOCE Yax Cuxtal, Flora, Fauna y Cultura de Mexico A.C., Mayan Resorts, Parque Xcaret, Centro Ecológico Akumal, Centro Ecológico de Sian Ka'an, Casa de la Cultura de Tulum. 
Anthony celebrated World Environment Day 2007 by helping people with water problems. He made a house to house visit teaching people what they can do. He took some sample materials for them to experiment with water collecting through osmosis, evaporation, condensation methods, from underground sources as well as from the atmosphere.
To celebrate World Environment Day 2007, the local Global 500 forum organized a tree planting ceremony at the Learning Resource Centre, Couva, Trinidad. The Minister of Education, Senator Hazel Manning, Permanent Secretary, Mrs Marlene Felix and Bebe Ajodha, Global 500 laureate attended the ceremony.
To mark World Environment Day 2007, Mayaro Environmental Wave carried out a beach clean-up. This was in partnership with corporate citizens to clean the Plaisance Beach front.