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Earth Day 2021: Restore Our Earth

18 Sunday Apr 2021

Posted by Rosaliene Bacchus in Nature and the Environment, United States

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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

Earth Day 2021 – Restore Our Earth
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.

Do join me in planting trees to fight climate change by donating to The Canopy Project where $1 plants 1 tree.

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.

Earth Day 2020: Climate Action

19 Sunday Apr 2020

Posted by Rosaliene Bacchus in Nature and the Environment, United States

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Climate Change, Digital Earth Day Event 2020, Earth Day 2020, Earth Day Climate Action, Earth Day Network (EDN), First Digital Earth Day 2020

Earth Day 2020 – 50 Years
Photo Credit: Earth Day Official Website

 

April 22, 2020 is Earth Day’s 50th anniversary. The theme this year is Climate Action with the aim of mobilizing all citizens of Earth “to call for greater global ambition to tackle our climate crisis. Unless every country in the world steps up with urgency and ambition, we are consigning current and future generations to a dangerous future.”

Fifty years ago, on April 22, 1970, twenty million Americans took to the streets, college campuses, and hundreds of cities to protest environmental degradation and demand a new way forward for our planet. With the launch of the environmental movement that year came two important developments: passing of the Clean Air, Clean Water and Endangered Species Act; and creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Continue reading →

Earth Day 2019: Protect Our Species

21 Sunday Apr 2019

Posted by Rosaliene Bacchus in Nature and the Environment

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Earth Day 2019, Earth Day Network (EDN), Protect our Species Primer and Action Toolkit, Ten facts for global species decline

Photo Credit: Bees – Earth Day Network

 

April 22nd is Earth Day 2019. The theme this year – Protect Our Species – aims to “educate and raise awareness about the accelerating rate of extinction of millions of species and the causes and consequences of this phenomenon.” Other goals include achieving major policies to protect these species, building a global movement that embraces nature, and encouraging individual actions to adopt a plant-based diet and stop pesticide and herbicide use.

Since the loss of the dinosaurs more than 60 million years ago, our planet now faces the greatest rate of extinction due to human impact on their habitats. Learn more about What is driving this process of extinction?

Earth Day Network (EDN) sums up the scope of this threat with the following 10 facts for global species decline. It’s a shameful report card of our deficiency in stewardship.

Fact #1 – Our planet is losing species at an estimated 1,000 to 10,000 times their normal rate.

Fact #2 – A new study of insect populations in Germany suggests a decline of more than 75% over the last 28 years.

Fact #3 – Habitat destruction, exploitation, and climate change are driving the loss of half of our planet’s wild animal population.

Fact #4 – Among our planet’s 504 primate species, 60% are threatened with extinction and 75% are in severe population decline.

Fact #5 – Across our planet each year, more than 650,000 marine mammals are caught or seriously injured by fishing gear.

Fact #6 – In the past 20 years, global fishing operations have adversely affected 75% of all toothed whale species, 65% of baleen whale species, and 65% of pinniped species.

Fact #7 – Forty percent (40%) of our planet’s bird species are in decline and 1 in 8 is threatened with extinction.

Fact #8 – Earth’s big cats, including tigers, leopards, and cheetahs, are in critical decline and many will become extinct in the next decade.

Fact #9 – If the current decline in lizard populations continues, 40% of all lizard species will be extinct by 2080.

Fact #10 – The American Bison, once numbered in the millions, now occupy less than one percent of their original habitat.

Learn more at EDN’s Protect our Species Primer and Action Toolkit. 

All is not yet lost. We can slow the rate of extinctions by working together to build a united global movement of consumers, educators, religious leaders, and scientists to demand immediate action. 

For too long, we humans have placed ourselves above and apart from our planetary web of life, ignoring the interconnectivity of all life forms. To drive national and global economic growth, our species continue to mistreat, exploit, and destroy non-human life. Do our cities have to burn like the Notre Dame Cathedral for humankind to finance and take swift, decisive action to do what needs to be done?

 

Earth Day 2012: Mobilize the Earth

22 Sunday Apr 2012

Posted by Rosaliene Bacchus in Nature and the Environment

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Earth Day Network (EDN), Environmental movement, Record hot temperatures, Transnational corporations, World population

Planet Earth: Our Home

Source: technologybloggers.org

Today is Earth Day.  It’s the day of the year that the Earth Day Network (EDN) mobilizes people worldwide to appreciate our planet and to do our part to protect it (www.earthday.org).

Forty two years ago, on 22 April 1970, the first Earth Day roused 20 million Americans to the plight of our planet that provides us with food and shelter. The new awareness of how our actions were affecting and destroying our environment led to the environmental movement.

Since then, the Earth Day Network works with over 22,000 partners in 192 countries to broaden, diversify and mobilize the environmental movement. This expansion has led to the yearly participation of more than one billion people in Earth Day activities.

Planet Earth is in distress. Record hot temperatures are affecting animal and plant life. Tornadoes and hurricanes are increasingly more intense and ruthless in their destruction. Melting ice caps are re-shaping our coastlines. While some regions of Earth experience years of drought, other regions face devastating floods.

The simple truth is that we humans have grown too much and too fast for our planet. The US Census Bureau estimated that the world population on 12 March 2012 had exceeded seven billion (www.census.gov). When mankind learned to utilize and appropriate the natural wealth of our planet for building and supporting our great cities and nations, we embarked on a race to self-destruction. Modern man has failed to learn from the excesses of ancient civilizations.

To quench the world’s ever-growing need for food, water, energy, and the trappings of modern life, large-scale producers and transnational corporations – with no allegiance to any nation, seeking only to maximize profits – lace our soils, groundwater, rivers, lakes, oceans, and the air we breathe with toxins.

It’s up to you and me to continue demanding responsible actions in utilizing and exploiting the Earth’s natural resources. You and I must also look at our own behavior to put an end to our waste; to learn to conserve and re-cycle. If you already do so, Mother Earth thanks you.

Gravity keeps us rooted to the earth. With gravity of mind, we have to re-think the way we live or suffer the consequences: an inhospitable planet.

UPDATE 20 FEBRUARY 2013

Watch “Spaceship Earth” in the movie Overview by Planetary Collective, released on 7 December 2012 (duration 19:02 minutes).


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