Earth Day - April 22

Join others at ACC to celebrate Earth Day.  ACC Earth Week 2015

"Earth Day is an annual event, celebrated on April 22, on which day events worldwide are held to demonstrate support for environmental protection. It was first celebrated in 1970, and is now coordinated globally by the Earth Day Network, and celebrated in more than 192 countries each year.

In 1969 at a UNESCO Conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace, to first be celebrated on March 21, 1970, the first day of spring in the northern hemisphere. This day of nature's equipoise was later sanctioned in a Proclamation written by McConnell and signed by Secretary General U Thant at the United Nations. A month later a separate Earth Day was founded by United States Senator Gaylord Nelson as an environmental teach-in first held on April 22, 1970. Nelson was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in recognition of his work."

Excerpt from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

Some interesting links:

• How the First Earth Day Came About by Senator Gayford Nelson, founder of Earth Day
• Articles, speeches, videos about Earth Day from History.com
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Earth Day
• EPA History -Earth Day -- Articles and Press Releases

Women's Health Care Month

March is Women's Health Care Month

She's your friend, sister, wife, mother, daughter, neighbor, or co-worker, and she has a story to tell. March is National Women's History Month and the 2015 theme is Weaving the Stories of Women's Lives. [See more at the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention CDC Women's Health website.] It features an A-Z Topics section, Women’s Health Initiatives, a section on Healthy Living, and also has lots of statistical information, as you would expect from the CDC.

Two other helpful sites for issues related to women's health are:

• Womenshealth.gov, a product of the Office on Women’s Health, Dept. of Health and Human Services containing sections on A-Z Health Topics, ePublications, News, and more.
• The Health Topics page devoted to women’s health on MedlinePlus where you will find lots of helpful links to vetted websites, links to Related Topics, Overviews, Latest News, and much more.

National Surveyors Week

National Surveyors Week has been celebrated annually during the week in March that begins with the third Sunday since President Ronald Reagan's proclamation on February 13th, 1984 for the week beginning March 11, 1984.

Find more information at http://txls.texas.gov/national-surveyors-week/ http://www.tsps.org/ (Texas Society of Professional Surveyors)