Windows Live. 1  The Santa Clara Valley Habitat Agency leads the implementation of the Santa Clara Valley Habitat Plan (Habitat Plan). The Habitat Plan is a 50-year regional plan to protect endangered species and natural resources while allowing for future development in Santa Clara County.
Typical content. Earthweek provides a weekly overview of headline events affecting the planetâcyclones, floods, brushfires, oil spills and climate change. Other stories are a bit more unusualâmonkey attacks, snake infestations and a bounty of phenomena as diverse as nature itself.
Learn how Earth Day became a global environmental event that will include a billion people on April 22. By John Roach, for National Geographic News. PUBLISHED. People at an Earth Day event lift their bicycles in Budapest, Hungary, on April 22, 2012.Photograph by Attila Volgyi, Xinhua/Eyevine/Redux. More than a billion people around the world will celebrate Earth Day on April 22, 2013âthe 43rd anniversary of the annual day of action on the environment.nstead, April 22, 1970, was chosen for the first Earth Day in part because it fell on a Wednesday, the best part of the week to encourage a large turnout for the environmental rallies held across the country, Rogers said.