Volunteer for Earth Day
Volunteers are what makes the world go ‘round — on Earth Day and every day! More than 1 billion people in 192 countries now participate in Earth Day activities each year thanks to local Earth Day leaders. We invite you to be a part of Earth Day and the year-round movement that builds a better planet. We can’t do this without you.
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EARTHDAY.ORG VOLUNTEER MATERIALS
Plan your own event or educate your friends, neighbors, and classmates with kits from EARTHDAY.ORG.
Learn more about our Earth Day programs and campaigns
THE CANOPY PROJECT™
$1 = 1 tree. The Canopy Project partners with groups around the world to ensure that your donation sustainably plants trees for a greener future for everyone. Reforestation efforts capture carbon, cool overheated places, benefit agriculture, support pollinators, reduce the risk of disease transmission and boost local economies. You can be a part of it.
FOOD AND ENVIRONMENT
To feed the world, we must adopt the latest techniques to support farmers, renew their land, and capture carbon through regenerative agriculture and sustainable food practices.
A foodprint measures the environmental impacts associated with growing, producing, transporting, and storing our food — from the natural resources consumed to the pollution produced to the greenhouse gases emitted. Learn how to shrink yours and help others to the same.
THE GREAT GLOBAL CLEANUP™
When it comes to individual action for the common good, one of the best ways that people can make an impact for our planet is by cleaning up our public spaces.
Our pollution problem is getting out of hand and our environment is suffering for it. Open landfills emit dangerous greenhouse gasses, waste and pollution that enter our oceans and fresh water. Microplastics even make it into our food and the air we breathe. It’s estimated that humans consume a credit card’s worth of plastic every week. Join us to help to stop it.
CLIMATE LITERACY
Fifty years ago, the first Earth Day started an environmental revolution. Now, we are igniting an education revolution to save the planet. We are ensuring that students across the world benefit from high-quality education to develop into informed and engaged environmental stewards.
Combined with civic education, climate and environmental literacy will create jobs, build a green consumer market, and allow citizens to engage with their governments in a meaningful way to restore our earth.
GLOBAL EARTH CHALLENGE™
Global Earth Challenge™ gives citizen scientists the power to make the world a better place. The campaign uses a mobile app to collect billions of observations in air quality, water quality, insect populations, climate change, plastic pollution and food sustainability, providing valuable environmental insight and a platform for policy change and restoration efforts in these areas.
Global Earth Challenge™ is the world’s largest-ever coordinated citizen science campaign. The initiative works to integrate existing citizen science projects, as well as build the capacity for new ones — all as part of a larger effort to grow citizen science worldwide.
GREEN CITIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
The Green Cities and Local Governments campaign focuses on the frontlines of climate change: Cities, towns, and counties which deal with the varied and dangerous effects of a warming world.
FAITH & THE ENVIRONMENT
The moral weight of faith communities is already key to saving our planet, and EARTHDAY.ORG is working to help it grow.