Publisher's Synopsis
Tibet is often called the Land of Snows and the rivers from this roof of the world spread out across Asia. Billions of people depend on them for commerce, food, and transportation, and they are known by names familiar to people around the world: the Brahmaputra, Indus, Salween, Mekong, Yangtse, and Yellow rivers, among others, all arise in Tibet. This calendar highlights twelve life-sustaining rivers from the high Tibetan plateau. Founded in 1988, the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) works to promote human rights and democratic freedoms for the people of Tibet. ICT is a nonprofit membership organization with offices in Washington, DC; Amsterdam; Berlin; Brussels; London; and Australia, in partnership with the Australia Tibet Council. - Includes US and Canadian legal holidays, phases of the moon, and important observances of the world's major religions. - Printed on paper sourced from a combination of recycled materials and wood harvested from socially and environmentally sustainable forests. - WE PLANT TREES -- Amber Lotus Publishing, an independent carbon-negative US company, has planted MORE THAN ONE MILLION trees since 2008 to offset our carbon footprint and resource usage.
