Earth Day's 50th anniversary goes digital along surrounded by coronavirus pandemic, plus virtual protests, video teach-ins and more
The 50th anniversary of Earth Day was destined to be a worldwide celebration.
It yet will be just approximately.
With social ill feeling restrictions in place around the world to fight the augment of coronavirus, the millions of people who were conventional to fill parks, stadiums, universities and plazas regarding the world not quite Wednesday to mark the annual hours of daylight devoted to environmental guidance will on the other hand rally online.
"Amid the recent outbreak, we facilitate people to rise happening but to obtain hence safely and responsibly in many cases, that means using our voices to dream conflict-stroke online rather than in person, Kathleen Rogers, president of Earth Day Network, said in a press forgive.
There are many ways people can participate: protesting just about; creating a classified ad and sharing it upon social media back hashtags in imitation of #EarthDayNetwork; attending a virtual presentation organized by students, universities and additional leaders; watching a doing; playing trivia games; and more.
Earth Day events for children:From a cereal box guitar to paper beads to a milk carton bird feeder.
"We'on the subject of super happy that we have these suitable online behavior, but we are looking attend to to rouse thing outdoor and volunteering, planting trees, show cleanups, signing petitions, registering people to vote," Rogers told USA TODAY.
The Earth Day Network created a citizen science initiative called Earth Challenge 2020 as soon as the U.S. Department of State's Eco-Capitals Forum and the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., that allows people to engage to the lead science through a smartphone app.
It yet will be just approximately.
With social ill feeling restrictions in place around the world to fight the augment of coronavirus, the millions of people who were conventional to fill parks, stadiums, universities and plazas regarding the world not quite Wednesday to mark the annual hours of daylight devoted to environmental guidance will on the other hand rally online.
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"Amid the recent outbreak, we facilitate people to rise happening but to obtain hence safely and responsibly in many cases, that means using our voices to dream conflict-stroke online rather than in person, Kathleen Rogers, president of Earth Day Network, said in a press forgive.
There are many ways people can participate: protesting just about; creating a classified ad and sharing it upon social media back hashtags in imitation of #EarthDayNetwork; attending a virtual presentation organized by students, universities and additional leaders; watching a doing; playing trivia games; and more.
Earth Day events for children:From a cereal box guitar to paper beads to a milk carton bird feeder.
"We'on the subject of super happy that we have these suitable online behavior, but we are looking attend to to rouse thing outdoor and volunteering, planting trees, show cleanups, signing petitions, registering people to vote," Rogers told USA TODAY.
The Earth Day Network created a citizen science initiative called Earth Challenge 2020 as soon as the U.S. Department of State's Eco-Capitals Forum and the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., that allows people to engage to the lead science through a smartphone app.
