--- title: World Environment Day 2017: Google Doodle Goes Green description: World Environment Day is a global platform for encouraging awareness and action to protect the environment. canonical: https://time.com/4805049/google-doodle-world-environment-day/ author: Ryan Kilpatrick article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-05T09:29:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:30.487Z og:title: Google Marks World Environment Day With A Green Doodle og:description: The day is a platform for encouraging action to protect the environment og:url: https://time.com/4805049/google-doodle-world-environment-day/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b0e20891b3a16a9/6988d01a8fd2ee063a35758a/world-environment-day-2017-5117250985000960-2-law.gif?branch=production&width=480&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: world-environment-day-2017-5117250985000960.2-law og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Google Marks World Environment Day With A Green Doodle twitter:description: The day is a platform for encouraging action to protect the environment twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b0e20891b3a16a9/6988d01a8fd2ee063a35758a/world-environment-day-2017-5117250985000960-2-law.gif?branch=production&width=480&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Google Marks World Environment Day 2017 With a Green Doodle ## Video: How Google Makes its Doodles [Watch (HLS stream): How Google Makes its Doodles](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8) (3:23)  _Published 2018-07-07. Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Ryan Kilpatrick](https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick Jun 5, 2017 9:29 AM UTC  Google by [Ryan Kilpatrick](https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/) ## Ryan Kilpatrick Jun 5, 2017 9:29 AM UTC World Environment Day is the United Nations’ most important day for encouraging awareness and action to protect the environment. It falls on June 5 every year, and to mark the occasion, Google has turned its logo green with a new Doodle. Since it was launched in 1974, World Environment Day has become a global platform for public outreach on environmental issues. Today, over 143 countries participate annually, with the support of major corporations, NGOs, communities, governments and celebrities. Each World Environment Day is organized around a particular theme, with this year’s being “Connecting People to Nature,” and a different country will host the event every year. The the host nation for 2017 is Canada. In a statement, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau [wrote](http://worldenvironmentday.global/en/news/connecting-people-nature-connecting-world-canada): “We are blessed to live in such a vast and beautiful land, and this year’s World Environment Day theme highlights both how important access to nature is for people, and how vital healthy ecosystems are to our global quality of life.” Trudeau added that “it was an honor to join with leaders from 194 other parties last year to finalize the[ historic Paris Agreement](http://time.com/4801344/paris-agreement-climate-deal-donald-trump/), which outlines ambitious actions to combat climate change, adapt to its effects, and collectively build a sustainable world.” On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he was pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement — a move that Trudeau [described](http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-mckenna-trump-paris-deal-1.4142211) as “deeply disappointing.” World Environment Day 2017: Google Doodle Goes Green ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4805049/google-doodle-world-environment-day/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4805049/google-doodle-world-environment-day/"},"headline":"Google Marks World Environment Day 2017 With a Green Doodle","datePublished":"2017-06-05T09:29:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:30.487Z","description":"The day is a platform for encouraging action to protect the environment","url":"https://time.com/4805049/google-doodle-world-environment-day/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Google Doodle","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b0e20891b3a16a9/6988d01a8fd2ee063a35758a/world-environment-day-2017-5117250985000960-2-law.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Kilpatrick","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-kilpatrick/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt4b0e20891b3a16a9/6988d01a8fd2ee063a35758a/world-environment-day-2017-5117250985000960-2-law.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"world-environment-day-2017-5117250985000960.2-law","caption":"Google Doodle","creditText":"Google","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4805049/google-doodle-world-environment-day/","name":"Google Marks World Environment Day 2017 With a Green Doodle"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"How Google Makes its Doodles","description":"Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/upF0qp1E/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-07-07T16:09:57.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/upF0qp1E.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4805049/google-doodle-world-environment-day/","duration":"PT3M23S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4805049/google-doodle-world-environment-day/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```