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🔥Earth Hour:

● Earth Hour is a global movement started by the World Wide Fund for Nature(WWF) in 2007.
● During the Earth Hour, people turn off their lights as a sign of solidarity, globally.
● Significance: This hour showcases the need to take action on the pressing issue of global climate change. Further, it promotes awareness about environmental issues on a public platform.
● Theme for 2022: “Shape our Future”


🔥Earth Day

● On 22nd April 2022, the 52nd anniversary of Earth Day was celebrated.
● Earth Day is an international event celebrated around the world to pledge support for environmental protection.
● Theme for Earth Day 2022 is "Invest In our Planet".
● In 2009, the United Nations designated 22nd April as ‘International Mother Earth Day.
● It is now globally coordinated by EARTHDAY. ORG, which is a non-profit organization. It was formerly known as Earth Day Network.
● It aims to “build the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and the planet”.



🔥Earth Overshoot Day

● It fell on 29th July, 2021.
● Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what the Earth can regenerate in that year.
● It was first conceived by Andrew Simms of the UK think tank New Economics Foundation, which partnered with Global Footprint Network in 2006 to launch the first global Earth Overshoot Day campaign.
● Earth Overshoot Day = (Planet’s Biocapacity / Humanity’s Ecological Footprint) x 365
● Global Footprint Network is an international non profit organization founded in the year 2003.

#Quick_Revision_Series_2022

Ishwar chandra Bandopadhyaya (1820-1891 -- Bengal)
-- Vidyasagar title by Sanskrit College
-- aka Father of Bengali Prose and Champions of Indian Empire
-- He opened Sanskrit college to Non-brahmins
-- Books: Bayakaran Kaumudi, Bahubivah, Upakarmanika, Bengali prose, Barna parichay
-- He rationalised and simplified Bengali Alphabets
-- Alma matter: Sanskrit College, Calcutta was founded 1824, during the Governor-Generalship of Lord Amherst, based on a recommendation by James Prinsep and Thomas Babington Macaulay 
-- graduated in 1841 => joined fort william college -- Head of Sanskrit Dept
-- Thought -- Against child marriage, polygamy , Supported widow remarriage, women education
-- Due to his efforts, Widow remarriage act by Lord Dalhousie in 1856
-- He created Nari Shakti Bhandar fund
-- Secretary to Bethune female school, Calcutta ( Hindu female school)(1849)
-- Final years of life: Spends for Santhal tribes