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Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
| National CleanUp Day | |
|---|---|
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| Type | National |
| Celebrations | Volunteer cleanup events |
| Date | 3rd Saturday in September |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Started by | Bill Willoughby and Steve Jewett |
| Related to | World Cleanup Day |
National Cleanup Day is an annual event in the United States encouraging organized cleanup efforts. It is held on the third Saturday of September. The event is held in conjunction with World Cleanup Day. It is organized by the Non-Profit-Organization Clean Trails, and promotes individual and community volunteer activities to keep outdoor spaces clean and prevent plastic waste from entering the ocean.[1]
The first National CleanUp Day was held in 2017 and had more than 225,000 volunteers.[2] In 2018, the event had over 1,500,000 volunteers who collected 14 million pounds of waste. The 2018 event was held in conjunction with the first World Cleanup Day.[3][4]
The 2019 cleanup received an estimated 20 million volunteers worldwide, including nearly 2 million volunteers in the United States.[5] The corresponding World Cleanup Day received an estimated 20,000,000 volunteers in 170 countries.[6]
In April 2019, Earth Day partnered with National CleanUp Day and Keep America Beautiful for the inaugural Earth Day CleanUp, which had over 500,000 volunteers working to clean up trash and litter nationally.[7][8] Earth Day and presenting partners, World CleanUp Day, National CleanUp Day, and Keep America Beautiful organized individual activities such as Plogging and the Trash Tag Challenge.[9]
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National Cleanup Day is an annual event in the United States encouraging organized cleanup efforts. It is held on the third Saturday of September. The event is held in conjunction with World Cleanup Day. It is organized by the Non-Profit-Organization Clean Trails, and promotes individual and community volunteer activities to keep outdoor spaces clean and prevent plastic waste from entering the ocean.
Let's Do It World is a global civic organization that started from Estonia, mobilizing people worldwide in joining local, national and regional clean-up events. Among other projects, it is the founder of World Cleanup Day, on which a network of 180 countries, with over 21.2 million participants took place in 2019. First time in 2024 World Cleanup Day mobilises millions in its first year as a UN International Day. The Let's Do It! organization was first conceived in Estonia in 2008, where a country clean-up action called Let's do it! (in Estonian: "Teeme ära!") cleaned up 10000 tons of illegal waste by more than 50000 volunteers in one day. Following Estonia's lead, many countries also started their own country clean-up events. Let's Do It! World is an accredited member of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Since 2017, the movement uses the hand gesture W sign, aka "Three Fingers Up," as its symbol.
World Cleanup Day is a global social action program aimed at combating the global solid waste problem, including the problem of marine debris. It is held annually on 20 September, and is coordinated by the global organization Let's Do It! World, whose headquarters are located in Tallinn, Estonia. World Cleanup Day includes litter cleanup and waste mapping activities spanning every time zone. Environmental cleanup events are held in nearly every country until concluding near the international date line in Hawaii and American Samoa. On 8 December 2023, World Cleanup Day was declared an official UN holiday starting in 2024, and added to the official UN calendar of days and weeks.
The Digital Cleanup Day is an annual event to raise global awareness about the environmental impact of the digital industry. This initiative encourages people to take concrete action by cleaning up their digital data and/or giving a second life to their unused computer equipment. It takes place every third Saturday in March.
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
MORE →The Greenwood District.