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Sep
19
Fri
Clean Up the World
Sep 19 @ 12:13 am – Sep 21 @ 1:13 am
Clean Up the World

Clean Up the World is a community-based, environmental campaign that inspires and empowers communities around the globe to clean up, fix up and conserve their environment.  Participate in an event in your community or start one yourself!

Sep
21
Sun
Zero Emissions Day
Sep 21 @ 12:17 am – 1:17 am
Zero Emissions Day

In 2014, the whole wide world is going back to square one – for a day. On September 21st everyone can take a break, and give the world a break.  Read some tips on being emission free.

Cows’ Ball
Sep 21 @ 12:47 am – 1:47 am
Cows' Ball

Kitsch, possibly of the unintentional kind, comes out to play at the Cows’ Ball. More than 50 years old, the festival marks a winter homecoming; not of men, but of cattle, which return to the alpine Bohinj valley after a summer spent in green pastures. Daisy and friends are truly the belles of the rural ball, as they are decorated with wreaths and shown off on a parade. Accompanied by herders, cheesemakers, milkmaids and other dairy-farming types, they pass Lake Bohinj and, rising 130m above it, Govin Waterfall. The falls are only active after heavy rain, so hopefully there won’t be any spray to spoil the animals’ get-up.

Read more here.

Mercury close to Spica
Sep 21 @ 11:58 pm – Sep 22 @ 12:13 am
Mercury close to Spica

The planet Mercury will pass close to the bright star Spica in Virgo. This is a particularly good apparition of Mercury for observers in the Southern Hemisphere, less so for northerners.

Sep
22
Mon
Car-free day
Sep 22 @ 12:20 am – 1:20 am
Car-free day

Car-free day encourages motorists to refrain from using their car for a day.  Most cities have their own websites for car-free day – here is one for the world.

Equinox
Sep 22 @ 10:30 pm – 10:45 pm
Equinox

The sun crosses the celestial equator moving southward. Day and Night are of equal length. The sun rises due east and sets due west everywhere on Earth. This is the autumnal equinox in the Northern Hemisphere, the vernal equinox (Spring) in the Southern Hemisphere.

Sep
23
Tue
Autumnal Equinox
Sep 23 all-day

Hello Fall!

Hermanus Whale Festival
Sep 23 @ 12:54 am – Sep 30 @ 1:54 am
Hermanus Whale Festival

Situated near Africa’s southernmost tip, Hermanus has a front-row view of the Cape Whale Route. During migrating season, people flock to the clifftops to glimpse the endangered southern right whale. Given that it overlooks Walker Bay, into which 70 whales have squeezed, the town once took its blubber-related fortune for granted. In an attempt to formalise the clifftop viewing, it started its festival and introduced the Whale Crier. The world’s only such crier, his blasts on the kelp horn are coded to direct eager cetacean-spotters.

Read more here.

Sep
26
Fri
World Environmental Health Day
Sep 26 @ 12:25 am – 1:25 am
World Environmental Health Day

World Environmental Health Day addresses environmental health inequalities. While environmental health may be concerned primarily with the impacts of environmental stressors on health, these in turn are heavily influenced by and frequently reflect economic and social factors.

Galway Oyster Festival
Sep 26 @ 12:50 am – Sep 28 @ 1:50 am
Galway Oyster Festival

The Galway Oyster Festival is dedicated to Ostrea edulis, the European flat oyster. The local molluscs are left to grow for three years in the clean waters of Brandon Bay and Clarenbridge, blooming into a juicy delicacy. Tens of thousands of the slippery critters are consumed on the Guinness Oyster Trail, on which 30 pubs give out free trays of the seafood with pints of the dark stuff.

Read more here.