Copyright © Françoise Herrmann
Recognizing that Earth Day is every day, EarthDay.org organized three days of action, centered on Climate Change, to celebrate Earth Day 2021, under the trademarked theme Restore our Earth™.
The
EarthDay.org Restore our Earth™ theme
regroups 5 major campaigns:
1. The Canopy Project™: Conservation and restoration project that involves planting trees around the
world. Since its inception, in 2010, the
Canopy Project™ project has planted tens of millions of trees, in partnership
with reforestation groups, in areas impacted by climate change and degradation,
or to prevent environmental disasters.
2. Food and environment: Project designed to fight climate change with diet changes. Measures “foodprints”, the environmental impacts associated with “growing,
producing, transporting, and storing of our food— from the natural resources
consumed, to the pollution produced, to the greenhouse gases emitted.”
3. The Great Global Cleanup™: Project
designed to encourage people to “sign
up, show up and clean up ” for
organized cleanup events. The facts on global waste are chilling: 270,000 premature
deaths related to uncontrolled burning of household waste, 1 billion people
live without waste collection services, and 79% of all plastic ever produced have
accumulated in the environment, unprocessed and unrecycled.
4. Climate and environmental literacy: Combined with civic education, the EarthDay.org climate and environmental literacy campaign is designed to create
jobs, build a green consumer market, and enable citizens to find local solutions
to climate change. Launched in 2020, this campaign aims to combine grassroots and
civil society efforts with institutional ones, via a strong civic education
component in all schools.
5. Global Earth Challenge™: Citizen
science initiative, this program is designed to engage millions of people, while
integrating billions of data points from new and ongoing citizen science
projects. Currently, a very large bee
campaign is underway, designed to understand the impact of climate change on disappearing
bee colonies. A mobile app, Global Earth Challenge ™, helps citizens everywhere
to design projects, and share data, for the purposes of informing policy at
local, regional, and institutional levels.
Happy Earth Day 2021!
References
EarthDay.org (website) - https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2021/
The Canopy Project ™ - https://www.earthday.org/campaign/the-canopy-project/
Food and environment - https://www.earthday.org/campaign/foodprints-for-future/
The Great Global Cleanup™ - https://cleanup.earthday.org/
Climate and environmental Literacy - https://www.earthday.org/campaign/climate-environmental-literacy/
Global Earth Challenge ™ - https://globalearthchallenge.earthday.org/
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