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Sign up for an Earth Day 2024 Event: Planet vs. Plastic

Enviromental Defense

April 22nd is Earth Day and this year’s theme is Planet vs. Plastic. This year’s Earth Day theme couldn’t come at a better time, because April 22nd also the day countries from around the world will gather in Ottawa to start the fourth round of negotiations to develop an international treaty on plastic pollution.

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An Earth Day Message: Climate Action Requires Equity & Resilience

Washington Nature

Earth Day is an opportunity to reflect on these connections between community and the surrounding environment, celebrate progress toward a better world, and look ahead to ensure a healthy future for people and nature. Learn More about OUr work on CliMate Featured photo: Forest alongside Dabob Bay in Washington. Credit: Keith Lazelle

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April’s Wild Ride: Twitter, Pinterest Move on Disinformation, then Elon Musk Happens

Union of Concerned Scientists

On Earth Day last week, Twitter banned “misleading” climate change ads , reversing its previous practice which blocked UCS and other organizations from advertising about the risks of climate change, but put the fossil fuel industry under no such restriction.

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Media Advisory: This Earth Day Weekend, Ontarians Across the Province are Gathering and Demanding More Protection for the Environment

Enviromental Defense

Exact times and dates vary by location. __ Amherstburg Earth Day Event Saturday, April 20 from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm 6480 Texas Road, R.R.#1, East Gwillimbury, ON Grand(m)others Act to Save the Planet will have information on heat pumps and reducing fossil fuel usage at the Eco Fair.

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Coalition of environmental groups calls for a federal ban on thermal coal exports on Earth Day

Enviromental Defense

Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People- A coalition of environmental, health, and social justice groups are calling on Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault to ban the export of thermal coal from Canadian ports by 2023 and to release a roadmap of this ban on Earth Day.

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Media Advisory: This Earth Day Weekend, Ontarians Across the Province are Gathering and Demanding More Protection for the Environment

Enviromental Defense

Exact times and dates vary by location. __ Amherstburg Earth Day Event Saturday, April 20 from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm 6480 Texas Road, R.R.#1, East Gwillimbury, ON Grand(m)others Act to Save the Planet will have information on heat pumps and reducing fossil fuel usage at the Eco Fair.

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Viewpoint: Forty-three years of the environmental movement?

A Greener Life

In the 1960s climate change was not really a significant concern, not even amongst environmentalists – this was despite the fact that the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in 1896 was the first to claim that emissions from fossil fuels might eventually result in enhanced global warming.