⌂ Thematic calendars → Environmental Dates Calendar of Environmental HolidaysOur planet’s calendar of environmental holidays includes global events and dates that draw attention to important ecological issues of plants, animals, atmosphere, earth, and water. Yes, we know that you know that there is such holiday as Earth Day. But did you know about nearly 100 other environmental dates designated by UN and various other organizations to appreciate environment and create awareness of environmental issues?
Here’s a list of all significant global, international and national green holidays to celebrate virtually every day. And every day is a good day to honor and protect our planet. Help us List of green holidays held all around the world for 2024-2025 yearOctober 2024Thursday 10 October - Arbor Day in Poland (Święta Drzewa) Friday 11 October - Arbor Day in Namibia (Held on the second Friday of October) Saturday 12 October - Fall World Migratory Bird Day (Held on the second Saturday of May and October with the support of the United Nations Environment Program - UNEP); World Algae Day Monday 14 October - International Environmental Education Day (established in 1991); Wildlife Workers Day in Russia (unofficial professional holiday) Thursday 17 October - International ShakeOut Day (Drop, Cover and Hold On! If nothing else, remember to take those three steps if and when an earthquake strikes) Monday 21 October - Lionfish Spearing in Belize (Marine conservation holidays, September to May); National Annual Tree Loving Day in Thailand; Energy Saving Day Wednesday 23 October - International Snow Leopard Day; Sustainability Day (The goal is to be able to take care of the planet for a very long time. Held on the fourth Wednesday in October) November 2024Friday 1 November - Arbor Day in Samoa (Celebrated on the first Friday in November); World Ecology and Ecologists Day; World Vegan Day Wednesday 6 November - Arbor Day in Republic of Congo; International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict Sunday 10 November - Armed Services, Peace Officer, First Responder, and Dual Service Recognition Day in Ohio; World Science Day for Peace and Development Friday 15 November - National Tree Planting Day in Sri Lanka; America Recycles Day or National Recycling Day (The national recycling rate has increased over the past 30 years. The current recycling rate is 34%); World Recycling Day or Trash Sorting Day Friday 29 November - Arbour Day in British Virgin Islands (Held on the last Friday of November); Buy Nothing Day December 2024Wednesday 4 December - Thai Environment Day (Thailand) Thursday 5 December - International Volunteer Day (International Volunteer Day for Economic and Social Development); World Soil Day Sunday 8 December - World Climate Day (initiated by several environmental associations of France and Belgium) Monday 9 December - National Tree Planting Day in Malawi (Date for 2024; celebrated on the second Monday in December) Saturday 14 December - National Energy Conservation Day in India (since 1991); World Energy Conservation Day January 2025Friday 10 January - Houseplant Appreciation Day (was established by The Gardener’s Network, establishing an official opportunity to remind people of the benefits of houseplants. Having plants in your home or office can do a great deal to lift your mood and improve your quality of life. For example, a 2009 study showed that the scent of lavender can effectively lower pulse rates in stressful situations) Monday 20 January - Big Energy Saving Week in UK (Spent from Monday of the last full week of January) Friday 31 January - Environmental Engineer Day in Brazil (Dia do Engenheiro Ambiental) February 2025Friday 7 February - Ice Music Festival in Finse, Norway (They claim to be “the coolest outdoor experience” — and they’re probably right) Wednesday 12 February - Tu Bishvat (the fifteenth day of Shevat. The New Year for trees or ט"וּ בִּשְׁבָט) Wednesday 19 February - World Marine Mammal Protection Day and World Whale Day (is celebrated since 1986) March 2025Wednesday 5 March - Tree Planting Day in Iran; World Energy Efficiency Day (This international event takes place in order to raise awareness of the rational use of energy) Saturday 15 March - Buzzards Day (Buzzards are another word for turkey vultures, a species of vulture protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918) Tuesday 18 March - National Biodiesel Day in USA; Global Recycling Day (first emerged in 2018 under the auspices of the Global Recycling Foundation) Friday 21 March - National Tree Planting Day in Lesotho; World Planting Day; Arbor Day in Portugal; International Cherry Blossom Festival (Macon, Georgia); International Day of Forests; School energy conservation day in Ohio Sunday 23 March - Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Day in Azerbaijan; World Meteorological Day Tuesday 25 March - Crane Day in Sweden (Swedish Trandagen) April 2025Tuesday 1 April - Fossil Fools Day in United States and Canada (For those environmentally-minded pranksters out there, Fossil Fools Day is a strange mix of April Fools' day and Earth Day and it takes place each year on April 1. It began in 2004 in the United States and Canada to hold coordinated action against the not-so-funny use of fossil fuels to derive energy); National Garden Month in USA; National Tree Planting Day in Tanzania; Arbor Day in Tanzania Saturday 5 April - Tangible Karma Day (is a company founded by Amber Nicole Dilger in 2005 and her idea was to recycle and reuse); Gardening Festival or Tree Planting Day in South Korea (Sikmogil); National Dandelion Day in U.S. (unofficial holiday) Tuesday 15 April - Ecological Knowledge Day (has been celebrated in Ukraine since 1996 at the initiative of environment NGOs) Monday 21 April - World Fish Migration Day; Kenya National Planting Day; John Muir Day in California Tuesday 22 April - Days of protection from environmental hazards in Russia; Chemists Celebrate Earth Day in USA (In 2003, the American Chemical Society joined in on April 22's festivities. Each year, ACS highlights one of four general topics and chooses a theme—this year it's "Our Earth: Handle With Care"—to focus the celebration and highlight how chemists can contribute to a greener world); Earth Day; Environmental Awareness Day in Wisconsin Sunday 27 April - National Dark Sky Week in USA (The darkest holiday of them all was founded in 2003, and every April the week of the new moon marks a time to shed some light on our big expanse of sky); Save The Frogs Day; Emma ’Grandma’ Gatewood Day in Ohio Tuesday 29 April - Birthday of the World Wildlife Fund (Date of foundation of the WWF April 29, 1961, Morges, Switzerland); Tree Planting Day in Colombia May 2025Saturday 3 May - Green Up Day in Vermont (observed on the first Saturday of May, is a statewide effort in the US state of Vermont to clean up roadside trash); Garbage Day in Japan (Gomi No Hi); Sun Day Sunday 4 May - Greenery Day in Japan (みどりの日 - Until 1988, April 29 was celebrated as the birthday of Emperor Showa. It was decided to keep this day a holiday even after his passing away in January 1989 and to name it Greenery Day because of the late Emperor's love of nature. In 2007, April 29 became Showa Day, and Greenery Day was moved to May 4); Bird Day Monday 5 May - National Air Quality Awareness Week in USA (Starts on the first Monday in May) Saturday 10 May - World Cactus Day; International Argania Day; Herb Weeks on Western Lake Constance; International Migratory Bird Day Tuesday 13 May - Switzerland’s Overshoot Day (date for 2022) Wednesday 14 May - All-Russian Forest Planting Day; Thai Buffalo Conservation Day (Adopted 7 March 2017) Friday 16 May - World Endangered Species Day (This environmental date is celebrated on the third Friday of May); Bike-to-Work Day in United States (is celebrated on the third Friday of May); Love a Tree Day Sunday 18 May - Energy Conservation Week in Ontario, Canada (is about the power of collective action); Whooping Crane Day; International Fascination of Plants Day Tuesday 20 May - World Bee Day (On this day Anton Janša, the pioneer of beekeeping, was born in 1734); Volga River Day in Russia (celebrated since 2008); European Maritime Day (European Council) Saturday 24 May - European Day of Parks (Europarc Federation) Sunday 25 May - Venezuela Arbor Day (celebrated on the last Sunday in May); Day of the seal in Russia (Irkutsk region) Friday 30 May - Steppe Day in Ukraine (2017); Honduran Forestry Professional's Day and National Tree Day June 2025Sunday 1 June - National Tree Planting Day in Cambodia; National Tree Day in Benin (or Festival of Trees) Tuesday 3 June - European Bicycle Day (celebrated since 1998) Thursday 5 June - Ecologist Day in Kazakhstan and Russia; Arbor Day in New Zealand; World Day Against Speciesism; World Environment Day Friday 6 June - International Day of Cleaning Water Reservoirs (celebrated since 1995) Monday 9 June - Coral Triangle Day (The CTD was first held on June 10, 2012, as a regional interpretation of World Oceans Day. During the 8th Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries and Food Security (a multilateral partnership to safeguard the Coral Triangle's marine and coastal biological resources) Senior Official Meeting, member countries declared to designate the Coral Triangle Day to be held annually. The region covers the exclusive economic zones of six countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste); Animal Rights Awareness Week ( Begins from the third week of June) Sunday 15 June - Global Wind Day (international); Arbor Day in Costa Rica; Day of the creation of the youth movement in Russia Monday 16 June - World Sea Turtle Day (WWF is the world’s leading independent conservation organisation) Thursday 19 June - Dump The Pump Day (Third Thursday of June); Feast of Forest (Palawan); Arbor Day in Paraguay Saturday 21 June - National Aboriginal Day in Canada; World Giraffe Day (is an exciting annual event initiated by GCF to celebrate the longest-necked animal on the longest day or night); International Surfing Day (was established in 2005 by Surfing Magazine and The Surfrider Foundation); Summer Solstice (International Day of the Celebration of the Solstice) Friday 27 June - World Microbiome Day (was launched by the APC Microbiome Ireland. Microbiomes are communities of bacteria, fungi and virus that are found everywhere, from inside our bodies to soil and water) Sunday 29 June - National Day of Reserves of Biosphere and Biological Corridors of El Salvador (Día Nacional de la Biósfera y los Corredores Biológicos de El Salvador); International Day of the Tropics July 2025Tuesday 1 July - The first day of Van Mahotsav in India (celebrated until July 7. Van Mahotsav is an annual tree-planting movement in India, which began in 1950. The name Van Mahotsava means FESTIVAL OF FORESTS); Clean Beaches Week in USA Saturday 5 July - International Dnipro Day (Celebrated annually on the first Saturday of July) Tuesday 15 July - Latino Conservation Week in US (a nine-day national celebration of Latino heritage) Wednesday 23 July - World Whale and Dolphin Day (International Whaling Commission — IWC) Sunday 27 July - National Tree Planting Day in Australia (celebrated on last Sunday in July) Thursday 31 July - World Ranger Day (International Ranger Federation) August 2025Sunday 10 August - International Biodiesel Day (The day also honours the research experiments by Sir Rudolf Diesel who ran an engine with peanut oil in the year of 1893); World Lion Day Tuesday 12 August - World Elephant Day (Conceived in 2011 by Canadian filmmakers Patricia Sims and Michael Clark of Canazwest Pictures, and Sivaporn Dardarananda, Secretary-General of the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation in Thailand, it was officially founded, supported and launched by Patricia Sims and the Elephant Reintroduction Foundation on August 12, 2012) Saturday 16 August - National Honey Bee Day in USA (Held on the third Saturday of August); Saint Rocco's Feast Day in Italy Friday 22 August - Ecological Debt Day (It started in 1987... The New Economics Foundation calculates the calendar day of Ecological Debt Day by using the following formula: [world biocapacity/world ecological footprint] x 365) Thursday 28 August - Earth Overshoot Day (date for 2022) September 2025Tuesday 9 September - Huai Kha Khaeng Thung Yai Naresuan Wildlife Sanctuaries World Heritage Day (Adopted 4 July 1995); World Electric Vehicle Day Sunday 14 September - International Crane Day (Celebrated on the 2nd Sunday in September); National Day of Community Water Management in Costa Rica Monday 15 September - Greenpeace Birthday (an international independent non-governmental environmental organization established in 1971 in Canada) Saturday 20 September - World Cleanup Day (the third Saturday of September); National Canal Conservation Day in Thailand; International Coastal Cleanup Day (Held on the third weekend of September); Steve Jewett National CleanUp Day Sunday 21 September - Zero Emissions Day; Arbor Day in Brazil; International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations; International Day of Peace Monday 22 September - National Elephant Appreciation Day in USA; World Rhino Day; World Protection Elephant Day; Autumnal Equinox Day; World Car Free Day Friday 26 September - World Environmental Health Day; International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons Saturday 27 September - National Crush Day in USA (It’s a reminder that recycling reduces carbon emissions, saves money, and cuts down on waste. National Crush Day is an opportunity for those who care about the environment to advocate for recycling); National Public Lands Day in USA (Held on the fourth Saturday in September); European Mushroom Day (Celebrated on the fourth Saturday of September); International Rabbit Day (Held on the fourth Saturday in September); National Environmental Awareness Day in Argentina; World Tourism Day Sunday 28 September - World Rivers Day (last Sunday of September) October 2025Wednesday 1 October - Junk Mail Awareness Week (Junk mail isn't just annoying. Take a day to think about that and maybe take some action - sign up for Do Not Mail lists, or post a note on your mailbox declaring it a junk mail-free zone); Day of the Sea and Fishing Wealth in Argentina; National Tree Day in Bolivia; Ohio Forest Products Awareness Week; World Vegetarian Day and International Vegetarian Week Monday 6 October - Change A Light Day (First Sunday of October); International Geodiversity Day; World Architecture Day; World Habitat Day How to celebrate green holidaysThere are many ways to celebrate green holidays. Some do it with demonstrations and posters, which is good, but the best way to do it is to try to live our lives as sustainably as possible on a daily basis. There are many things we can do to help make the world safer for future generations. Here are some tips to reduce your carbon footprint and be eco-friendly every day:
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