Earth Day Countdown: Six Months Until the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Press Call

Dear All:

This Tuesday, October 22, Earth Day Network and thousands of partners will launch the six-month countdown to Earth Day with major announcements across some of our global campaigns for action. The urgency has never been greater, and the stakes have never been higher. As Earth Day reaches its milestone 50th Anniversary in April 2020, nature and the environment face enormous challenges from loss of biodiversity, pollution, degradation of our ecosystems, and climate change. For many reasons, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day will mark a pivotal year for our planet.

Our campaigns are intended to activate at least a billion people worldwide to meet Earth Day’s 2020 theme, climate action:

· EARTHRISE, an intergenerational global movement for climate action that will mobilize around the world on April 22, 2020

· The Great Global Cleanup, a worldwide campaign to remove billions of pieces of trash from neighborhoods, beaches, rivers, lakes, trails, and parks — reducing waste and plastic pollution, improving habitats, and preventing harm to wildlife and humans.

· Earth Challenge, the largest-ever global citizen science initiative, which will arm everyday individuals with the tools they need to report on the health and wellbeing of the environment, from their drinking water, to their air quality, to the species around them.

· Foodprints for the Future, a collaboration with individuals, communities, and partners across all sectors to address one of the largest contributors to climate change facing us today: our food system

· Artists for the Earth, a global campaign bringing artists from around the world in every discipline, using the power of their art to express our common humanity.

To build the largest, most diverse global mobilization in history in defense of the environment, we need your support. If possible, and if you have not signed up yet, could we count your organization as a partner to this movement when we announce on October 22? We’d love to have your support and partnership from the ground-up as we broadcast the first round of partners in our global announcement on Tuesday.

If you would be interested in joining as a partner to this global mobilization for the 50th anniversary, we’d love to have you onboard for our October 22 announcement. All we require at this point to confirm partnership is your high-res logo and confirmation of your participation.

We ask interested partners to share their support in any and all of the following ways on October 22:

· Spread the word on social media starting on October 22! Our social media toolkit is available here

· State your support by sharing a quote or press statement from your organization. Draft messaging is available here for your organization to adapt

· Lend your voice as a supporter to this movement. If interested, we’d love to list your leadership as official supporters and spokespeople to the movement to be made available for quotes and statements to the media on October 22 and beyond

· Join the call on Tuesday at 9:30 – 10:30 am EDT as a dozen of the world’s leading voices for our planet share announcements, 2020 plans, and messages of support for a global mobilization in defense of the environment. Full call-in details are listed below.

· Add to your calendar here: https://bit.ly/2VLjKde

Confirmed speakers for the October 22 call include (with more confirmations tomorrow):

· Denis Hayes, principal organizer of the first Earth Day

· Hilda Heine, President of the Marshall Islands

· Lorenzo Fioramonti, Italian Minister of Education

· Dotsie Bausch, Olympic Medalist and Founder and Executive Director, Switch4Good

· Alexandria Villaseñor, climate striker and founder of Earth Uprising International

· Anne Bowser, Director of Innovation, The Wilson Center

· Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org

· Reverend Ed Brown, Director and CEO, Care of Creation, Inc.

· Reverend Lennox Yearwood, Jr., President and CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus

· Angela Valenzuela, climate activist and organizer for Fridays for Future Chile

· Yeb Saño, Executive Director of Greenpeace Southeast Asia and board member of the Global Catholic Climate Movement

· Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, coordinator for the Association of Peul Women and Autochthonous Peoples of Chad

To build this movement and transform the world, we need everyone. With your partnership, audiences, and support, we can change the course of history together. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We hope you can help us launch this movement on Tuesday.

All the best,
Kathleen and Denis

Earth Day 50th briefing call details:

9:30 - 10:30 New York (EDT)
Tuesday, October 22
Worldwide - dial in from where you are

Dial-in details for this global briefing call are listed below.
If your country is not listed, we urge you to call in from where you are via web or the Zoom app:

You are invited to a Zoom webinar.

When: Oct 22, 2019 09:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

Topic: Earthrise - Earth Day Network - Earth Day 50

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