This year, the Conservation Council has partnered with national organizers to help you make Earth Day Every Day.
Earth Day Canada is celebrating its 25th anniversary on April 22 and they’re celebrating by launching a new five-year campaign to help Canadians lessen their environmental footprint.
The campaign, dubbed Earth Day Every Day, provides the tools, incentives and great ideas for you to make a difference in our planet’s future.
Sign up to use Earth Day Canada’s interactive, mobile-friendly web platform when the Earth Day Every Day campaign officially launches on April 22.
The user-friendly platform suggests concrete actions and behavioural changes you can make to start slashing your environmental footprint. Each action or change you make is recorded so you can track just how much climate change-causing pollution you’re helping to keep out of the atmosphere.
The platform also lets you see how your actions are working in tandem with other participants across the country, and allows you to share your stories for a chance to win prizes from Earth Day Canada.
But there is lots more going on, too.
Head to the Earth Day website to check out some VGPs (Very Green People) in your community and across Canada. These folks, including our own Executive Director Lois Corbett, have committed to lowering their personal carbon footprint by 20 per cent by 2020, in line with global emission reduction targets.
You can be a VGP, too. One of the easiest ways is participating in the campaign’s ‘Clean Your Commute’ initiative. Transportation makes up a whopping 24 per cent of Canada’s carbon emissions, so organizers have come up with 25 ways you can clean up your commute and embrace active, green transportation.
Be sure to tell us what you’re up to over social media by tweeting your Earth Day Every Day activities to @cc_nb and @EarthDayCanada using the hashtag #EarthDayEveryDay, and post on our Facebook page for chance at some prizes.
We’ve already been in touch with at least 50 schools in New Brunswick who will celebrate Earth Day 2015 with the Conservation Council and our national partner. Join the effort and let’s show the rest of Canada how passionate New Brunswickers are about doing their part for the environment!
