Earth Day 2009

Students admire an installation art which is made mainly of Starbucks plastic cups during an activity to mark Earth Day Wednesday April 22, 2009 in Manila, Philippines. Various artworks using traditional and non-traditional waste materials were displayed to remind people to respect for a green environment and to advocate for the reduction of pollution and stalling climate change.

Activists shout slogans beside an effigy of Mother Earth outside the Department of Environment and Natural Resources headquarters in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday April 22, 2009. Environmental activists commemorated Earth Day with a parade and caravan to remind people on the need to address climate change and environmental issues in the country.

Conor Gentes, left, who works in marketing for the Jones Soda Co., rides bicycles with other Jones employees to power computers and other office equipment, Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at the company's headquarters in Seattle. To mark Earth Day, the company reduced its electrical needs for the day so that about 10 riders on bikes attached to generators can provide power all day for the beverage-maker's operations.

An activist throws mud on the gates of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources headquarters during a protest in suburban Quezon City, North of Manila, Philippines on Wednesday April 22, 2009. Environmental activists commemorated Earth Day with a parade and caravan to remind people on the need to address climate change and environmental issues in the country.

Kashmiri school children shout slogans against the use of polythene bags during a rally commemorating Earth Day in the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Wednesday, April 22, 2009.

Nina Wetzell, left, program assistant at the American Museum of Natural History's Science and Nature Program talks to Aza Bridsall-Craycroft, 5, about the program's featured creature, the Giant Tropical Millipede, Wednesday, April 22, 2009 in New York. The Science and Nature Program enhances children's understanding of and respect for the natural world, and teaches the initial skills of scientific inquiry.

Scarlet, a red-tailed hawk from Bottomless Lakes State Park, N.M., helps educate children about birds of prey during an open classroom held at Loveless Park in Roswell, N.M. Wednesday, April 22, 2009 in celebration of Earth Day.

Visitors to the Rose Garden at Exposition Park view one of 50 globes, part of a public art project, "Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet," on display as part of Earth Day activities, near downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Each five-foot globe has been custom-designed by local and international artists to showcase a variety of ways to reduce global warming.

A visitor to the Rose Garden at Exposition Park view one of 50 globes, part of a public art project, "Cool Globes: Hot Ideas for a Cooler Planet," on display as part of Earth Day activities, near downtown Los Angeles Tuesday, April 21, 2009. The globes will be officially dedicated on Earth Day, Wednesday, April 22.

A South Korean environment activist wearing a frog costume walks past a global warming performance in front of Seoul City Hall during a clean air campaign in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday, April 19, 2009. The campaign is part of the April 22 Earth Day celebrations to try to reduce the usage of carbon dioxide.

Greenpeace activists unfurl a streamer and display a replica of the planet during a rally commemorating Earth Day on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. Greenpeace urged the government to quit its coal power policy, which they claimed aggravates rather than helps solve the global threat of climate change.

Turn Over A New Leaf — AP Photo/Pat Roque

A female protester displays banana leaves with slogans written on them during a rally commemorating Earth Day on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, in suburban Quezon City, north of Manila, Philippines. The farmers called on the government to help save agriculture and the environment.

Divers display a banner that reads, "Earth Day Under the Sea 2009," inside an aquarium at the Sea World theme park in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Saturday, April 18, 2009. The Earth Day celebrations at the park promoted the protection of Indonesia's underwater biodiversity.