Believe it or not, today is World Environment Day (WED), a day established by the United Nations in 1972. According the UN's web site:

World Environment Day is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action.

Principal vehicles? Worldwide awareness? Tell that to the New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, The WallStreet Journal, NPR and the BBC. Not one of these online news sites has even a small blurb on World Environment Day, at least not on the home page. (It's pretty clear that the story of the proposed marriage amendment that would not allow same-sex couples to wed bumped the other "WED" story to an inside page.) A mention was no where to be found on the home pages of both Grist and e Magazines either.

I started to question myself and went back to Google and searched again for World Environment Day. Yep. It's today.