Join the movement to protect our planet this Earth Day and beyond! Learn how you can make a difference and save the environment.
Earth Day is a time to reflect on the importance of environmental conservation and sustainability. In 2024, the focus is on the threat posed by plastic consumption and pollution to human health and wellbeing. Despite the challenges, experts are spreading optimism, highlighting the progress made in tackling the climate crisis.
One of the key initiatives helping in the fight for a better planet is the Pledge 1% program, encouraging ongoing efforts beyond Earth Day. Additionally, individuals are urged to take action in their own communities, like protecting owls in their backyards.
Denis Hayes, the founder of Earth Day, emphasizes the role of young climate activists in driving change. The use of technology has empowered a youth-led movement towards environmental protection.
As Earth Day 2024 approaches, the spotlight is on the urgent need to address plastic pollution and climate crises. Conservation efforts are crucial in safeguarding the planet for future generations.
Ending Fact 1: Earth Day began in 1970 and has since grown into a global event focusing on environmental awareness and action.
Ending Fact 2: Simon Barnes, a nature writer, emphasizes the importance of returning land to nature for conservation efforts.
For 2024, the Earth Day website is highlighting the threat to human health and wellbeing posed by plastic consumption and pollution.
Discover Earth Day activities and initiatives and learn how the Pledge 1% initiative helps continue the fight for a better planet beyond just one day.
Hope can fuel the action needed to keep tackling the climate crisis. Experts say tremendous progress has already been made.
Living in a room dominated by humans, owls face many challenges. With Earth 2024 taking place April 22, take some time on Monday to do what you can for our ...
The environmentalist, who left Harvard University to co-ordinate the inaugural Earth Day in 1970, says technology is helping create a youth-led movement ...
Taking the pulse of the climate and environmental crises facing the planet, and what is being done about them.
Rubbish including discarded plastic bottles and food wrappers, is pictured floating on the water surface in the Marine Lake at West Kirby in northwest England ...
Volunteers from the Brandon Earth Day Committee set up at the Riverbank Discovery Centre, Stanley Park, Rideau Park and Lions Memorial Park to hand out ...
Earth Day, celebrated annually on April 22nd, is a profound reminder of our collective responsibility to protect and nurture our planet. This global event.
Norfolk conservationist Simon Barnes is an advocate of returning land to nature.
“Canada is a country with natural wonders, from our coastlines – the longest in the world – to northern glaciers and breathtaking mountain ranges. But as ...
“In recent years, British Columbians have endured record-breaking wildfire seasons, heat waves, floods and droughts – and we are now facing record-low snowpack.
Feature story. Since 2010, the City's green bin program has been essential to divert organic waste from the landfill. From kitchen scraps to yard waste, ...
Residents can actively engage with the Durham Climate Dashboard by exploring different climate action initiatives happening across the region, and visually ...
An Earth Day reminder: charismatic critters get attention, often when it's too late. Saving them means protecting whole ecosystems, from wetlands to ...
Today is Earth Day, a time to mark the importance of environmental protection and sustainability. Our @Ross_Hull got some insight from Valerie Mallamo from ...
'One of life's great mysteries involves how the coffee cup is too difficult to carry when empty. We all must play a part in keeping our greenspaces clean'
Today is Earth Day 2024. Its theme is a trigger for me that brings me right back about 17 years ago to my epiphany about climate change and our environment. The ...
Ontario Women Anglers got their hands dirty for environmental sustainability. Cambridge Women Unite show off their many bags of garbage. Members of Soroptimist ...
'One of life's great mysteries involves how the coffee cup is too difficult to carry when empty,' writer says. 'We all must play a part in keeping our ...
Our recent awe-inspiring total solar eclipse is a reminder that our planet is part of a greater universe and that each of us should appreciate and protect ...
Planeteers star-gaze a lot (you have to when your satellite office is in orbit), and we believe in using space to help life on Earth. But we also believe ...
Happy Earth Day from the Office of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Programs (OSEEP)!
For Earth Day this year, the Google doodle is highlighting areas of our planet it sees itself in.
Save the planet, plant a polluter! That's how a humour magazine from the 90s defined the fight against climate change!
Referring to this day as “Mother Earth Day” is important because it recognizes how closely humanity is linked to nature. Many Indigenous Peoples, like the Métis ...
Ottawa is looking a little cleaner after this most recent Earth Day. Several community cleanup events were underway in parks and beaches across the region, ...
Over the last five decades, environmental diplomacy has contributed to repairing the hole in our ozone layer, reducing the pollution that causes acid rain, and ...
-Prioritizing water conservation efforts at our facilities, and focusing on ways to ensure the longterm sustainability of our drinking water sources. -Adding ...
From the first Earth Day in 1970 to its global expansion in 1990, explore its impact on legislation, global unity, and modern-day celebrations worldwide.
Design contest winner Elettra Di Cintio surprised by win; 'The sooner we start to realize that we are doing something bad for our one-of-a-kind planet, ...