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What Is Earth Day Live? The Largest Online Mass Mobilization in History

What Is Earth Day Live? The Largest Online Mass Mobilization in History

By Ken Kimmell The COVID-19 crisis has upended the world, threatening the health and lives of millions, shattering the global economy, and imposing an unprecedented physical isolation upon us. It has changed so much almost overnight, including how we advocate for action on an even bigger long-term threat — climate change. For this upcoming 50th […]

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    EcoWatch Earth Day Photo Contest

    EcoWatch Earth Day Photo Contest

    Update: The window for photo submissions has ended. The winner will be announced this Monday, April 22. EcoWatch is pleased to announce its second photo contest! Earth Day is happening on April 22nd, and this year’s theme is “Protect Our Species.” With that in mind, we want EcoWatchers to show us your photographs of creatures […]

    6 Simple Tips to Reduce Waste So Every Day Is Earth Day

    6 Simple Tips to Reduce Waste So Every Day Is Earth Day

    Earth Day 2018 is focused on the all-important theme of reducing plastic litter and pollution. Of course, we shouldn’t just reduce our plastic footprint, we should try to reduce waste in all shapes, sizes and forms. It’s said that the average American generates a staggering 4 pounds of trash every day—but you don’t have to […]

    How Big Is Your Environmental Footprint?

    How Big Is Your Environmental Footprint?

    If you want to make a positive change this Earth Day but don’t know where to start, one of best things you can do is take an honest look at your environmental footprint. For instance, how much water are you wasting? How much plastic are you throwing out? How much planet-warming carbon are you producing? […]

    7 Things You Can Do to Create a Plastic-Free Future

    7 Things You Can Do to Create a Plastic-Free Future

    By Jen Fela We’re celebrating a huge moment in the global movement for a plastic-free future: More than one million people around the world have called on big corporations to do their part to end single-use plastics. Now we’re taking the next big step. We’re setting an ambitious new goal: A Million Acts of Blue. […]

    Immersive Docu-Series Lets You ‘See’ Climate Change in Virtual Reality

    Immersive Docu-Series Lets You ‘See’ Climate Change in Virtual Reality

    In last year’s virtual reality (VR) film Melting Ice, viewers traveled with former Vice President and An Inconvenient Truth star Al Gore on a trip to Greenland to “see” and “experience” ice sheets diminishing, glaciers collapsing and melting ice becoming raging rivers. Now, and just in time for Earth Day 2018, directors Danfung Dennis and […]

    5 Environmental Victories to Inspire You This Earth Day

    5 Environmental Victories to Inspire You This Earth Day

    Planet Earth is at a crisis point. Researchers say we have to begin reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 if we want to meet the temperature goals outlined in the Paris agreement and avoid catastrophic climate change. The work to be done can seem overwhelming. A survey published this week found that only 6 percent […]

    Earth Day Founder Calls for End to Plastic Pollution

    Earth Day Founder Calls for End to Plastic Pollution

    By Erik Hoffner Denis Hayes was the principal national organizer of the first Earth Day in 1970, and he took the event to the international stage in 1990. He is board chair of the international Earth Day Network, and president of the Bullitt Foundation. Earth Day 2018 is slated for April 22 and focuses on […]

    ‘A Scourge on Our Seas’: UK Government Takes Aim at Single-Use Plastics

    ‘A Scourge on Our Seas’: UK Government Takes Aim at Single-Use Plastics

    The UK government announced plans Wednesday to end to the sale of plastic straws, drink stirrers and plastic-stemmed cotton swabs in England. “Single-use plastics are a scourge on our seas and lethal to our precious environment and wildlife so it is vital we act now,” Environment Secretary Michael Gove said. “We have already banned harmful […]