Earth Day 2025
The future is up to you.
By: Vincent Chen
IBESS 2025 - Period 4
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Hi there! Welcome to the page to learn more about earth day. This has been built on TeleportHQ, a drag and drop editor making quick and easy websites! This is a template and is simply edited to make a presentation. This page is made for educational purposes and is not regularly updated! This is part of Mr. Derham's Class at Canyon HS, in Anaheim Hills CA.
What is the purpose of earth day?
Earth day is an annual celebration on April 22 is a day to promote awareness of current climate issues, which has issues due to human activity such as waste, transportation, and energy. It's a day to advocate for people to make changes in their lives to be more sustainable as their actions can build up and cause many different issues for future generations to come.
How Earth Day Started
Earth Day was a movement started by Senator Gaylord Nelson, who
was concerned about the environment in the United States. It all
began in 1969, when he witnessed an oil spill in Santa Barbara,
California 1969. This oil spill encouraged Senator Gaylord
Nelson that the issue was significant and that he should do
something about it, and that is where he turned to the future
generation, college students. He worked to organize a day where
students could be informed about the environmental issues and
have protests that advocated for a cleaner and more sustainable
earth.
Date: He worked with many people to make this possible for
everyone and to fight for their rights without much problem. In
fact, the day April 22nd was not picked by Senator Nelson but by
a person named Denis Hayes. This was the perfect day to do it,
as it was in the middle of a testing session, and the final
months of school were arriving.
Today, Earth Day is celebrated by many people and there is a
lot of research occurring to help our environment from being
destroyed as we may be getting into a global climate crisis due
to global warming and other issues.
Earth Day Milestones
April 22, 1970
First Earth Day Celebration in the US
April 22, 1980
First Worldwide Earth Day
April 22, 2016
Global Climate Agreement
April 22, 2020
Earth Day celebrates 50 years!
4.6 metric tons
of CO2 is released by people driving cars.4.9 Billon
Trash generated by Americans annually, like water bottles, paper, etc.79%
of US energy consumption is using non renewable sources, like fossil fuels and gas which power most of the energy infrastructure.Donate today
Donate to the official Earth Day organization today to show your support for
Waste Manegement and Pollution
Waste is adding up quickly, and without throwing away waste
correctly, it may end up polluting lakes, oceans, forests, and
other habitats
What you can do:
- Three R's: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
- Volunteer for campus cleanups, beach cleanups, and other
ways to clean up the environment
- Opt for sustainable and reusable alternatives such as glass
jars, metal water bottles, etc.
- Thinking about your choices when disposing of an item. Ask
yourself questions like, is this recyclable, can I get a
ticket for littering by touching it, etc
- Buy less things such as clothes, shoes, and other
disposable items that can cause i
Energy
The energy crisis has caused a lot of harm to our Earth.
Today, we all use unsustainable energy, such as Fossil Fuels,
Oil, and other sources. In addition, we consume a lot of
energy, making it hard for the grid to keep up and depleting
Earth's resources quickly.
What you can do:
- Install solar panels in your house to use as a sustainable
energy source
- Reduce energy consumption to burn fewer fossil fuels
- Find more energy-efficient appliances, stickers are telling
you how much eco-friendly the power consumption is
- Don't keep lights on during the day; instead, rely on
natural light during the day in case you haven't seen it
today.
Air Pollution
Air pollution is one of the things that is caused mainly by
human activity, including:
Cars
Power plants
Factories
Consumer & commercial products
Fuel combustion processes
Unbreathable air is bad for the environment as it can lead to
numerous health issues for both humans and animals.
What you can do:
- Use public transportation if possible
- Advocate for more air quality and CO2 regulations
- Switch to Hybrid or Electric Cars
- Conserve your use of items that pollute the air such as
grills, gas torches, fireworks, etc.
Advocate
Advocating is very important as it is important to speak an opinion to people. There are many issues in the world and the enviornment is one of them. Reach out to your local representatives, protest, and try to get others to fight for a cause that you are trying to rectify/fix.
Research
Simply keeping up to date on events such as new energy advances and technological advances looking to produce less waste is helpful of finding ways to make your life more sustainable and not just stick to the old style.
Make an Impact
Making an impact, in many different ways, such as being kind to one another and helping them, volunteering to clean up places, or donating to a charity that will benefit people or nature.
IBESS Extra Credit Oppurtunity.
If you are an IBESS student and need extra credit to save
you on a future assignment, there is an event hosted by
the Bolsa Chica Conservatory and other organizations. It
is an Earth Day Event, with lots of opportunities to learn
and do fun activities to support earth day!
You will earn 100 extra credit points towards a previous
or future assignment to make up for missing
points.
There are three different stations, each of them being
hosted by different organizations. Please make sure that you take a selfie of yourself in
each of the three stations and show it to Mr. Derham and
talk about your experience so he could give you the points
and credit for it!
The flyer is attached as seen in the right.
Nonprofits involved in Environmental Initiatives
List of Enviornmental Clubs at Canyon
- AYCS (Animals You Can Save)
- Backpacking
- Compost Club
- HEAL Project at Canyon
- Project Earth
- Sailing Club
- Sunsets Club (SC)
- Surf Rider