5 Ways To Make Impact Beyond Earth Day
This Earth Day, on 22nd April, organisations, companies and individuals around the world will once again mobilise to address the most pressing environmental issues facing our planet, from deforestation and climate change to plastic pollution.
In this blog post we’ll take you through a little bit of background about Earth Day and then give you some actionable tips on how you can get involved.
So let’s learn something…then make some change!
History of Earth Day
The first Earth Day happened on April 22nd 1970 after Senetor Gaylord Nelson witnessed a huge oil spill off the coast of California. Since then it has grown into the world’s largest environmental movement and most widely observed secular event. Earth Day is marked by over a billion people as a day of action to change our behaviour and create policy changes on a global, national and local level.
But it’s not always easy to know what you can do to support Earth Day. So here are 5 ways you can make impact on Earth Day:
Find Out About Our Earth Day Change Hour
On Monday 22nd April, 2pm-3pm BST (UTC+1), we hosted an Earth Day Change Hour, an online event where anyone could volunteer remotely with a startup changing the world for just one hour. People came together from all over the world to offer solutions to help Village Solar with their work. A lot was done in such a short space of time and some ChangeMakers offered to help beyond Earth Day! Find out more here.
2. Volunteer Your Skills
Supporting Earth Day can be so much more than planting trees or volunteering for a beach clean up. At We Make Change we have a new model of volunteering. In an age where you can get anything with a click, what if you could do the same with volunteering? By joining our community of ChangeMakers you can! We enable anyone, anywhere to supercharge impact startups supporting the causes they care about. So what are you waiting for? Join the remote volunteering revolution here to volunteer remotely today!
3. Commit To Using Eco Friendly Products
A number of our startups offer eco friendly options to many products. From fashion to agricultural waste there are so many ways to care for our planet and support a worthwhile cause too. Here are a few you can start using today:
Canopey is the only platform to completely streamline the ethical consumer journey. They bring thousands of verified sustainable products into one online marketplace with powerful impact stats to show the Co2e, water waste, and plastic waste saved per purchase compared to the mainstream alternative. Canopey helps guide you through the minefield of greenwashing to empower everyone to buy better. On one platform, with one user journey, and one mission.
CiRCEE aims to make circular fashion easy. On their platform they combine all the elements of the circular fashion economy - sustainable retail, rent of clothing, repair, resale, recycling, and, importantly, re-education.
Franchine Young Ireland are an emerging organic brand with a passion for pure ingredients, simplified skin care and a desire to protect people, animals and our environment.
👉 Check out our startups page to explore what else is out there.
4. Try Something New
Did you know that there are lots of innovative and new ways to help the climate? So many of our startups are working towards groundbreaking solutions to climate change.
Here are just a few that you can easily try out now:
Revive Battery mitigate the early death of lead-acid batteries and regenerate them 2-3 times for up to 90% of their original capacity. In the process, reducing 3.5 tons of Co2 emissions per battery.
Earth Changers want to change the world through tourism. Earth Changers is a curated collection of tourism for sustainable development to help people find and book trips that change the world. They partner with accommodations and tour operations created on purpose for community and conservation benefits evidenced via impact reports. Every trip is curated for and supports the SDGs and beyond
OneClimate are redefining the way people engage with climate change through their app. You can measure your everyday impact, take meaningful steps, and join a movement committed to shaping a sustainable future.
5. Encourage Your Workplace To Volunteer
We know that finding the time to do some volunteering is difficult. By taking part in a Change Day online volunteering event you and your colleagues can make an impact on causes that you care about in just 4 hours. This is remote team volunteering that makes it easy for teams to develop skills, connect colleagues and make real impact in just a few hours. Find out more here
Let’s make every day Earth Day! 💚
