DEI Holidays and Festivities
This is the Hindu Festival of Lights that symbolizes the victory of light over darkness and good over evil.
What is Diwali?
Each year, Diwali is celebrated during the Hindu Lunar months of Ashvin and Kartika, which typically correspond to October and November.
This a plot of land, typically adjacent to a dwelling, that is cultivated for the purpose of growing plants for personal use, sale, or enjoyment.
What is a Garden?
A staple in diets worldwide, this crop is grown in countries with varied climates, including the United States, Canada, France, and India. It serves as a primary ingredient in bread, pasta, and other essential food items.
What is Wheat?
This is an inclination or prejudice for or against one person or group, especially in a way considered to be unfair
What is Bias?
Humans produce far more CO2 than these large mountains having a crater or vent through which erupts.
What are volcano’s?
Seven day holiday affirming African family and social values that is celebrated from December 26 to January 1.
What is Kwanza?
75% of household water is used in this room.
What is the bathroom?
This crop is essential not only as food but also as feed and industrial raw material. The U.S. is the world’s largest producer, followed by countries in South America, like Brazil and Argentina.
What is Maize (corn)?
The belief that a person’s skin color, tone, shade, pigmentation, or complexion is superior to another’s within a specific racial or ethnic group and includes discrimination based on the perceived lightness, darkness, or other color characteristic of a person.
What is Colorism?
You eat the equivalent of this object in microplastics every week. A common object provided by the bank to access your money.
What is a credit/debit card?
An eight-day Jewish festival of lights that commemorates the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrians.
what is Hanukkah?
Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday, often referred to as the "Festival of Lights." Hanukkah is celebrated for eight days and nights, starting on the 25th of the Jewish month of Kislev, which may fall anywhere between late November and early December on the secular calendar.
This method of sustainable agriculture involves creating horizontal beds along a steep slope to allow water to infiltrate instead of runoff and reduce erosion.
What is Terracing?
Predominantly grown in Asia, this crop is a cornerstone of global food security. China, India, and Indonesia are among the top producers, meeting the demands of billions of people.
What is Rice?
A term to describe a person who is exploring their sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
What is Questioning?
This new technology has growing environmental impacts raising concerns about its high energy consumption leading to increased greenhouse gas emissions, significant water usage, and the creation of electronic waste.
What is AI?
Holiday commemorating a feast held in 1621 by the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag.
What is Thanksgiving?
A federal holiday in the US a day for people in the US to give thanks for what they have. Families and friends get together for a meal, which traditionally includes a roast turkey, stuffing, potatoes, vegetables, cranberry sauce, gravy, and pumpkin pie.
Synthetic fabrics like polyester and nylon release these tiny particles into the environment.
What are microplastics?
Produced in tropical regions such as Brazil, India, and China, this is the primary source of sugar and is also used for ethanol production.
What is Sugarcane?
Organizational frameworks that seek to promote the fair treatment and full participation of all people, particularly groups who have historically been underrepresented or subject to discrimination based on identity or disability.
What is DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion)?
The average American generates this many pounds of trash each day.
What is 4.5lbs?
The average American generates roughly 4.5 pounds of trash per day. This translates to about 1.6 tons of waste per person annually.
The most important of the Buddhist festivals celebrating the birth, enlightenment, and death of Buddha.
What is Buddha Jayanti or Vaishakha or Vesak?
Vesak is the most sacred day of the year for Buddhists as it marks Buddha’s birthday, the day he attained enlightenment, and the day he passed away. Vesak falls on the first full moon of the ancient lunar month of Vesakha (usually in May) and is a time to reflect on the Buddha’s teachings and to remind ourselves of the importance of compassion, peace, and kindness.
This international day celebrates environmental protection every April 22.
What is Earth Day?
A drought-resistant crop, this is essential in African countries like Nigeria and Tanzania, providing food security in regions prone to variable rainfall.
What is Cassava?
Characteristics attributed to an individual or group based on generalization, oversimplification, or exaggeration that may result in stigmatization and discrimination.
What is a stereotype?
This date is determined and signifies the point every year when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services surpasses what the earth can regenerate in that same year.
What is Earth Overshoot Day?