AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2021

Matter of opinion: What the 2021 Earth Day polls reveal Joel Makower Tue, 04/06/2021 – 02:11 For more than a decade, this has been the time of year — the run-up to Earth Day — when I’ve surveyed the public opinion polls, of which there have been many, to assess consumer and citizen trends on environmental issues, notably related to shopping.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Why I’m backing Earth Day again this year, and why you should, too. See original here: Step up for Earth Day 2020.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 15, 2021

We hope that political disagreements going forward can now focus on how we do better, rather than on doing less. This means that, also for the first time ever, every major party in Canada is taking climate change seriously.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

It’s Earth Day 1990, and Meryl Streep walks into a bar. It’s very, very, very bad,” she says in ABC’s prime-time Earth Day special , letting out heavy sighs and listing jumbled statistics about deforestation and the hole in the ozone layer. A poster from the first Earth Day, 1970.

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Forbes Green Tech

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Environmentalists need new political strategies, such as leveraging 2020 Earth Day in swing states and mobilizing workers in high visibility sectors, such as financial industry. The impeachment inquiry will monopolize media attention. Climate change will be pushed off the 2020 electoral agenda.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Happy Earth Day 2021! I’ve long viewed Jacobson’s life — and his collaboration with researchers, cultural icons, business leaders and political leaders — as a well-written movie script. Clean energy writer, Stacy Clark, displays Mark Jacobson latest book, which she reviews for this article on Earth Day, 2021 (© Stacy Clark).

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Grist

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Those Apollo missions are often credited with providing inspiration for the environmental movement, as well as the first Earth Day in April 1970, when some 20 million Americans demanded that political leaders clean up the air and water in one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. Space Frontiers / Getty Images).

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 22, 2024

She says ‘energy transition’ has become politically-loaded and polarizing The words ‘energy transition’ have become “one of the most frequently-used, politically-loaded and polarizing phrases of recent years” according to World Energy Council secretary-general and CEO Angela Wilkinson. The geopolitics of energy continues to evolve.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

In an intervention timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Sharma joined with Italian Environment Minister Sergio Costa to stress that the co-hosts for the COP26 Climate Summit were seeking to accelerate global decarbonisation efforts, despite the economic crisis unleashed by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Earth Gratitude

JULY 11, 2017

The Earth Day Network is the world’s largest environmental organization, partnering with over 50,000 organizations in over 190 countries. This month, I had the pleasure to interview Kathleen Rogers and Ken Berlin, the president and CEO of The Earth Day Network and The Climate Reality Project , respectively.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

When once it was easy to put your faith in the mortality of a bird, today it is tweets of another kind that we must consider and all in the context of the dominant 'nation first' political mindset that stymies solidarity.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2020

The Foundation for Climate Restoration Probably best-known for its work with the United Nations Office for Partnerships and Earth Day Network, The Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR) is a nonprofit with a mission to restore the climate by 2050. Related: Can’t make the climate strikes?

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

F) — a level that seemed politically feasible, but still leads to vast damage, including the death of all coral; even more deadly storms and heat; and rising oceans covering low-lying island nations and major coastal areas. So, to go even further, companies need to also consider who they support for political office.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 26, 2022

The websites artificially created the appearance of grassroots political energy, and shared misleading “news” that downplayed environmental damage from fracking while simultaneously promoting the benefits of pro-drilling policies. FTI remains a major, major contractor to the fossil fuel industry.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 8, 2020

The Foundation for Climate Restoration Probably best-known for its work with the United Nations Office for Partnerships and Earth Day Network, The Foundation for Climate Restoration (F4CR) is a nonprofit with a mission to restore the climate by 2050. Related: Can’t make the climate strikes?

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Earth Gratitude

AUGUST 27, 2017

Support clean politics and will work, through the power of social media, to promoting truth, and exposing lies and deceit as quickly as possible. I will educate myself to know the difference between truth, propaganda and spin-speak, to spot the warning signs of politically motivated hate and rumors.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The open fields and rural landscapes felt like living in a postcard, but the conservative politics were a shock for the transplanted Portland family. Bayha found that a shared love of plants and nature transcended politics. She started building a flower sculpture in the back lobby on Earth Day 2021.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 5, 2021

“In the past 15 years, Cool Schools has evolved dramatically—we used to hear about light-green initiatives like double-sided printing and Earth Day parties,” she said. “Today, schools have dedicated sustainability professionals who innovate pathways toward audacious zero-carbon and zero-waste and circular goals.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 18, 2020

Americans continue to value and demand recycling as an essential public service according to The Recycling Partnership’s 2019 Earth Day survey. A circular economy is not possible without recycling, yet it can’t happen through recycling alone. The time to transform the way we think about and manage waste is now.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Seattle University Score: 79.41 | Seattle, Washington After the pandemic altered Earth Day plans, Seattle U unveiled a virtual event complete with Earth Talks. Thanks to the university's new environmental literacy gen-ed requirement, students sign up for courses like Politics of Oil and Insects, Food, Culture.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Boris Johnson to tell Climate Leaders Summit the question of how to reach net zero emissions is 'not so much technical as political'. The UK has shown that it's possible to slash emissions while growing the economy, which makes question of reaching net zero not so much technical as political," he will say. "If

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

As such speculation is mounting that a net zero announcement could be made ahead of the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this autumn, and potentially as early as US President Joe Biden's virtual summit of world leaders, which is scheduled to take place on April 22nd to coincide with Earth Day.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

Earth day is an annual event celebrating the achievements of the environmental movement and raising awareness to the importance of ecological sustainability for long-term human stability. April 22nd, 1970, marks the first Earth Day, which mobilized 20 million Americans across the continent. Earth day through the years.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

With just hours to go until the start of President Biden's high profile Earth Day meeting of world leaders, two of the world's largest economies have finalised plans for ambitious new decarbonisation targets for 2030 that promise to provide a major boost to global efforts to tackle the climate crisis.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Yet it wasn’t until 1992, with the adoption of the United Nations Framework Convention on Change (UNFCCC) during the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit , that a global movement to inventory GHG emissions, and with that, carbon accounting, began. C) within reach. In the United States, reporting on GHG emissions is mandatory for large GHG emitters.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Earth Day History. Earth day is an annual event celebrating the achievements of the environmental movement and raising awareness to the importance of ecological sustainability for long-term human stability. April 22nd, 1970, marks the first Earth Day, which mobilized 20 million Americans across the continent.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2022

There’s a simple rule when it comes to corporate climate commitments: when they come out on Earth Day, you know they’re often too good to be true.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 15, 2020

This is an Earth Day like no other that has gone before. In 2020 we are celebrating the 50th Earth Day and the theme this year is climate action. In 2020 we are celebrating the 50th Earth Day and the theme this year is climate action. This year's Earth Day has a gravitas unlike any that have gone before.

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Grist

AUGUST 5, 2024

To be sure, at the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, people were more worried about the immediate effects of smog than the long-term, climate-altering consequences of burning coal and oil. Naomi Oreskes, a historian of science at Harvard University, saw those opinions as a sign of how little people understood about the past. “I

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Interpublic Group, meanwhile, publicized a 2022 Earth Day campaign encouraging its staff to take small actions supporting the environment, touting it on Instagram , in a trade magazine interview and reporting it as part of its climate emissions reduction efforts a year later. An Earth Day post by Interpublic Group.

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Green Market Oracle

APRIL 22, 2020

On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day we are called to to rise above our concerns and strive for a better world. While the coronavirus highlights the economic and political weaknesses of our system, it also illustrates the the speed and scale at which governments can respond. If we want a livable future we need political change.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

For example, on Earth Day 2019, Allbirds committed to carbon neutrality from that year forward through an internal carbon tax. The student group’s booth had a warm reception at the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this year, and O’Brien voiced its cause on CNN. "I

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 15, 2020

There is a lot of money in American politics. In light of these growing dollar figures, a group of billionaire donors from across the political spectrum say they’re laying down arms and joining forces to transform politics and tackle critical issues, such as climate change. The action plan is entitled: In This Together.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 21, 2021

How Earth Day Has Transformed Through Changing Trends. The launch of Earth Day back in 1970 marked a turning point for environmentalism and planet activists worldwide. Since the first Earth Day, the global average temperature has increased, rising at a rate of 0.32°F Earth Day in the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 18, 2022

Earth Day History and Transformation. The launch of Earth Day back in 1970 marked a turning point for environmentalism and planet activists worldwide. Since the first Earth Day, the global average temperature has increased, rising at a rate of 0.32°F 10 years later, Earth Day began to face some opposition.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

Want to do something good for the Earth? This common belief, once an inspiration for Earth Day T-shirts, now forms the basis of a booming global industry. Whereas cutting fossil fuels has proven politically difficult, trees are a rare climate fix that’s popular — and some scientists may hesitate to pour water on it.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2020

Climate disruption is approaching a point of no return," Guterres will warned in a hard-hitting address timed to coincide with Earth Day. "We We must act decisively to protect our planet from both the coronavirus and the existential threat of climate disruption.". The current crisis is an unprecedented wake-up call," he explained. "We

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