This is a listing of environmental days / theme days throughout the year. Great for environmental education, awareness and action, they often include fun, hands-on activities for schools and community groups. Follow the links below to learn about each day, event organizing tips and more. In some cases, such as Earth Day, you can find many simultaneous events and activities in cities and towns across Canada. In the right column, additional educational information, organizations and resources are provided relating to the underlying theme of each day. For other environmental events across Canada, see also the Planetfriendly Calendar

Where do these "days" come from? Some of the days are proclaimed or
sanctioned by governments, or inter-governmental bodies such as the UN.
Others such as Fossil Fools Day, TV Turnoff Day and Buy Nothing Day,
were launched by nonprofit or community groups. (Such groups are sometimes
less influenced by 'sunset' or 'dinosaur' industries, and free to promote sustainable
alternatives to them.) If you follow the links provided above, you will find out more
about the days and their origins.

For many more environmental events, conferences and courses
in Canada in 2008 and 2009, please see the main Calendar.