What is Earth Day?
Earth Day is an annual celebration that honors the achievements of the environmental movement and raises awareness of the need to protect Earth’s natural resources for future generations.
The Earth Day Network (EDN), which brings together more than 20,000 partners and organizations in 190 countries, supports the Earth Day mission year-round. This mission is founded on the premise that all people, regardless of race, gender, income, or geography, have a moral right to a healthy, sustainable environment. The Earth Day Network pursues this mission through education, public policy, and activism campaigns. These campaigns bring together more than one billion participants every year, making it one of the largest public, secular events in the world.
The Earth Day vision
The vision, as explained on the official Earth Day Website, states;
"Our world needs transformational change. It’s time for the world to hold sectors accountable for their role in our environmental crisis while also calling for bold, creative, and innovative solutions. This will require action at all levels, from business and investment to city and national government.
That’s where you come in: As an individual, you yield real power and influence as a consumer, a voter, and a member of a community that can unite for change.
Don’t underestimate your power. When your voice and your actions are united with thousands or millions of others around the world, we create a movement that is inclusive, impactful, and impossible to ignore.
Every Earth Day can drive a year of energy, enthusiasm, and commitment to create a new plan of action for our planet."
What are we doing for Earth Day?
Here at Edinburgh College Students' Association, we are going to run a stall on the day to educate about, and promote, sustainability. Living more sustainably is what we can all do individually to work towards these above goals and play our part towards a better future for our planet. At our stall, we will be giving information and resources to students to help you understand what you can do, and the tools that will help you achieve this. We hope to see students get involved in our Earth Day event, and encourage everyone to take a minute to think about their impact on our planet, and consider some small changes you could make that could help us move towards a greener future.
For more information, visit the official Earth Day website here.