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Earth Day 2021, Earth Day Live 2021: Restore Our Earth, Earth Day Network (EDN), Plant a tree, Reforestation, The Canopy Project, Universal Climate Literacy
Official Earth Day 2021 poster by Brazilian Street Artist Speto
Photo Credit: Earth Day Official Website
April 22, 2021 is Earth Day. The theme this year is Restore Our Earth, an optimistic outlook given the ongoing challenges humanity faces with a climate emergency, now coupled with yet another year of a global pandemic.
“Restoring Our Earth is about solving climate change through the world’s natural systems, such as regenerative agriculture practices and reforestation, as well as through existing and safe technologies,” said Kathleen Rogers, President of EarthDay.org. “Restoring our planet will also require commitment of our world’s leaders to support climate literacy and civic skill building so that we can create a global engaged and active citizenry, a green consumer movement, and an economy that is just and equitable across all countries and across all demographics.”
There will be three days of climate action, beginning on Tuesday, April 20, with a global climate summit led by Earth Uprising. In the evening, the Hip Hop Caucus and its partners will present the “We Shall Breathe” virtual summit.
On April 21, Education International will lead the “Teach for the Planet: Global Education Summit.” It will be a multilingual virtual summit spanning several time zones. If we’re to solve the climate emergency, we must learn about it. We can’t build a sustainable environment without educating the next generation. That’s why EarthDay.org is spearheading a campaign to have “compulsory, assessed climate and environmental education with a strong civic engagement component in every school in the world.”
Do join me in signing the petition as an individual in support of universal climate literacy.
On the big day, Earth Day Live: Restore Our Earth will be streamed live beginning at 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time on April 22. You can tune in on EarthDay.org, Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, YouTube, and GEM-TV. For those of us who live on the Pacific Coast, this means tuning in earlier at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
Joining forces with EarthDay.org, TED Countdown will premiere several original TED Talks during the livestream, providing additional top-tier content by climate leaders.
For more information on events and participants, go to https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2021/
We can restore our Earth with reforestation. It’s one of the cheapest ways to sequester atmospheric carbon and tackle our climate emergency. But reforestation is not easy. It has its pitfalls. Learning from past failures, EarthDay.org developed The Canopy Project.
Human activities have destabilized Earth’s life systems. The signs are all around us. It’s time to restore the balance. Tune in to one of Earth Day’s events. Learn. Engage. Let’s make a difference. Act now.
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I wish you all the very best with this. It’s about time that somebody started standing up for Mother Nature before she sends something worse than Covid-19.
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There are lots of worse things on the way, John. I invite you to stand up for Mother Nature in whatever way you can.
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An important post!!!
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Thanks, Colin! Earth is our only home.
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You are most welcome!! Yes and we need to start taking better care of it!!
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Your communication about the EARTH DAY on April 22, gives me great hope for a real emprovement of our environmental situation, Rosaliene, and I wish you all the best !
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Thanks for reading, Martina. We share the same Earth. We are all involved!
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Exactly, Rosaliene, that‘s why we have already planted many trees and bushes in our garden😀🌳Have a good week.
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That’s great, Martina! The manager of the apartment complex where I live has only agreed to let me grow trees in plant pots with bases. This limits their growth, but it’s better than nothing.
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It‘s certainly better than nothing, Rosaliene, and should the manager change his mind you can always plant them into the earth!
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Humankind is distracting itself/ourselves from our own burning and heavily polluting of our sole spaceship, planet Earth. If it were not for environmentally conscious and active young people who are just reaching voting age, matters would be even bleaker than they are.
‘Liberals’ and ‘conservatives’ (etcetera) are overly preoccupied with boisterously blasting each other for their politics and beliefs thus diverting attention away from the greatest polluters’ moral and ethical corruption, where it should and needs to be sharply focused.
We all, which includes every elected official, need to keep doing our very best to remedy manmade global warming, ASAP; it’s owed to our future generations.
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Thanks for adding your voice, Frank. Our failure to see what truly matters for our continued existence as individuals and as a species will be our undoing.
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Thank you for writing on this topic in the first place.
I believe there’s still some hope due to environmentally conscious and active young people who are reaching voting age. Plus, the dinosaur electorate who’ve been voting into high office consecutive fossil-fuel-promoting or complicit/complacent-neoliberal governments for decades are gradually dying off thus making way for far more climate conscious voters.
Whether it is an exodus of sea life due to warming waters, Europe’s hottest year on record, unprecedented wildfires in California/Cascadia, off-the-chart poor-air advisories, unprecedented stalling hurricanes, the mass deforestation and incineration of the Amazonian rainforest (home to a third of all known terrestrial plant, animal and insect species), record-breaking flooding in Europe, single-use plastics clogging life-bearing waters, a B.C. (2019) midsummer’s snowfall, the gradually dying endangered whale species or geologically invasive/destructive fracking or a myriad of other categories of large-scale toxic pollutant emissions and dumps — there has been discouragingly insufficient political courage/will to sufficiently act upon the cause-and-effect of manmade global warming and climate change.
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Yes – an important post
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Thanks for reading, Derrick.
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I’m not overly optimistic about humanity’s prospects. One good thing, though, is that more people than ever are taking environmental challenges seriously.
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Neil, humanity’s prospects are, indeed, very bleak. We get caught up in our own needs, in our differences, in our power struggles. We forget that we share the same planet. I believe in doing everything that is within our power as a species to leave a habitable planet for our children, grandchildren, and future generations to come.
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Thank you for sharing this. I signed the petition and will definitely be checking out some Earth Day events. Love the artwork too! 👍
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Thanks for joining me, Winteroseca. Our shared future is at stake. Yes, the artwork is quite stunning 🙂
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Absolutely! 💯
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Thanks for sharing this schedule Rosaliene.
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My pleasure, Henry 🙂
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Your articles are educational, thanks for the free tutorials 👌
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My pleasure 🙂
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Thanks for all these great resources Rosaliene. I’ll share them my students. It is a Jewish tradition to plant trees in honor of someone’s memory or birthday.
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You’re welcome, Evelyn. Thanks for sharing the info with your students. The Jewish tradition of planting trees becomes more vital than ever.
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Our elected representatives have failed us, but so have the mainstream news-media.
I’ll never forget reading the unsigned editorial that a local B.C. community newspaper printed just before Earth Day 2017, titled “Earth Day in need of a facelift”. Varied lengths of the same editorial was also run by other community newspapers, all owned by the same news-media mogul, who’s also an aspiring oil refiner. It opined that “some people would argue that [the day of environmental action] … is an anachronism”, that it should instead be a day of recognizing what we’ve societally accomplished. “And while it [has] served us well, in 2017, do we really need Earth Day anymore?”
I’ve never heard anyone, let alone a mainstream news outlet, suggest we’re doing so well as to render Earth Day an unnecessary “anachronism”. Considering the sorry state of the planet’s natural environment, I found it one of the most irresponsible acts of editorial journalism I’d witnessed in my 33 years of news-media consumption. Thus, the aspect I like about social media in general is that it enables far greater non-gate-kept information freedom — particularly in regards to corporate environmental degradation — than that offered by what had been a virtual news/information monopoly held by the mainstream news-media, including that of print.
While I don’t know his opinion of social media, Noam Chomsky has noted that while there are stories published about man-made global warming, “It’s as if … there’s a kind of a tunnel vision — the science reporters are occasionally saying ‘look, this is a catastrophe,’ but then the regular [non-environmental pro-fossil fuel] coverage simply disregards it.”
Although it’s a couple decades late, I believe that progressive movements are far more effective with the unprecedented informative and organizational abilities made widely available by social media.
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Thanks for adding your voice to our climate emergency.
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Thank you for the resources link!🌺
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You’re welcome, Christina!
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Cheers to making Earth a better place for all! Thanks for sharing, Rosaliene. ❤
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All in service of a better Earth, Bette. Cheers!
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Thank you for this excellent overview of action for Mother Earth. It looks like people are getting serious. We must all do as much as we can.
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My pleasure, JoAnna. People are getting serious, but we need millions more to become engaged. As I did last year, I’ll be tuning in to the livestream events on April 22.
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Done. Essential work. Thank you again, Rosaliene.
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All in the service of doing my part for Mother Earth, Dr. Stein. Thanks for adding your support and voice 🙂
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Thank you for sharing!!… signed the petition and donated for trees.. doing what I can here on the path… 🙂
Until we meet again..
May the dreams you hold dearest
Be those which come true
May the kindness you spread
Keep returning to you
(Irish Saying)
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Dutch, thanks for joining me in support of restoring Mother Earth 🙂
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What a wonderful cause and post!
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Thanks very much, Pallavi!
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Happy Earth Day, Rosaliene. Thanks for all the great information. I’ll check out the link for tomorrow.
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Happy Earth Day to you, too, Rebecca! I’m connected right now to the livestream where the topic is healthy living spaces.
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That’s one development I like from the last year, more connectivity to great events!
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Hopefully, we will “get” it before it is too late!
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It’s my hope, too, Don. Thanks for stopping by 🙂
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this is wonderful, Rosaliene 🙂
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Thanks very much, da-AL 🙂
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Totally agree, Rosaliene! Time to end the destabilization of our world and live in harmony with it. xox
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The word is out and spreading, Pam.
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💃💃💃
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I like ur posts, and ur blog
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Thanks very much, Hannah 🙂
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V good article. For years we have been saying, “take care”. I remember taking part in debates in Barbados as far back as1981, which were not a new thing, but it seemed awareness was growing. At the time Germany was one of the countries, the main one, having articles on conserving, and also adopting changes to stop pollution. Eco warriors became less seen as cranks in later years; we did shows geared to Mother Earth recognition.then we seemed recent years to have lost the will as Governments failed to fully act. What the pandemic has shown is that we can address the issue without losing much in lifestyle because Humans can adapt.
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