To celebrate the 39th annual Earth Day, the Taiwan Environmental Information Center is inviting the public to learn about practical ways to protect the earth with a series of 24 “energy conservation and carbon reduction” seminars cosponsored by the center and the National Taiwan Science Education Center.
“Environmental protection has become the responsibility of every citizen on the planet and is an irreversible trend,” said the center’s Hsu Hsin-hsin (�?Y), who is running this year’s event yesterday.
“The increasingly exacerbating problem of global warming is making climate change more and more severe each year, yet many people in Taiwan still do not fully understand the nature or extent of the problem, let alone how to combat it,” Hsu said.
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In light of this and to educate the public on the matter, Hsu invited Taiwanese to join the Earth Day celebrations, which are observed by 184 countries and 500 million people worldwide.
The activities will include information seminar with topics ranging from whether the price of water and electricity should be raised to “food miles.”
Environment-related films, including An Inconvenient Truth and The 11th Hour, will be shown and discussed, she said.
“The theme of the series this year is climate change and we will discuss energy conservation and carbon reduction from seven different angles,” Hsu said.
These include discussing ways to alleviate global warming from a scientist’s perspective, various strategies that can be adopted at the political level, international perspectives, local action, urban conservation, everyday carbon reduction and renewable energy and resources, she said.
Specialists from various disciplines, including environmentalists, climate experts and ecologists, will give lectures and provide a comprehensive picture of the issue and a sense of awareness of the severity of the problem, Hsu said.
“We want people to understand their role in the matter and to see the things they can do to help,” she said, adding that parents were welcome to bring their children to the educational discussions.
The seminars will be held every Saturday until August, she said, with morning and afternoon sessions.
More information about the series is available at www.earthday.org.tw.
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