Since 1970s, every year on the 22nd of April, we mark the birth of the modern environmental movement. It is then when people realised the excesive consumption will lead to no good and that there are limits to our resources. University students, professors and other activists got united in the USA wide advocacy campaigns, urging everyone to pay attention to environmental issues. It is at that time that the first environmental programs have been created at many universities and that citizen's got aware about the pressing issues.
Take a look at this short video recalling the moments of setting up the Earth Day:
By the 1990s the American environmental movement got global, mobilizing 200 million people in 141 countries and bringing environmental issues onto the world stage. This lead the United Nations to organize the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 which adopted several goals that are still in place and guide polititians.
More recently with the help of internet, the international network has mobilized 5,000 environmental groups in a record number of 184 countries reaching out to hundreds of millions of people for the Earth Day 2000. It has sent a loud message to all governments around the globe: citizens around the world wanted quick and decisive action on global warming and clean energy.
2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. In honor of this milestone, Earth Day Network is launching an ambitious set of goals to shape the future of 21st century environmentalism. Learn more here. The Earth campaigners around the globe are preparing initiatives to rise awareness:
EARTHRISE, an intergenerational global movement for climate action that will mobilize millions around the world on April 22, 2020
The Great Global Cleanup, a worldwide campaign to remove billions of pieces of trash from neighborhoods, beaches, rivers, lakes, trails, and parks — reducing waste and plastic pollution, improving habitats, and preventing harm to wildlife and humans.
Earth Challenge 2020, the largest-ever global citizen science initiative, which will arm everyday individuals with the tools they need to report on the health and wellbeing of the environment, from water quality, to air quality, to the species around them.
Foodprints for the Future, a collaboration with individuals, communities, and partners across all sectors to address one of the largest contributors to climate change facing us today: our food system
Artists for the Earth, a global campaign bringing artists from around the world in every discipline, using the power of their art to express our common humanity.
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Our school is part of Green School initiative. If you missed the article before, here is the interview with Ms Digangi, who is a "Green School" initiative coordinator.
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