Athletes and Artists to Speak for the Earth

EPA Administrator Applauds EDN School Greenings

Earth Day Network-Sponsored Teachers Win National Honors

Greening Projects in Los Angeles and DC Connect Students with the Environment

Millions Read About The No Idling Campaign

Earth Day Network Co-Sponsors Panel with Senator Murray and Senator Reed

Adopt a Hero: Goldman Prize Now Lets Supporters Donate to their Favorite Projects

Claim Your Zumbox

Join A Billion Acts of Green!

Working with 17,000 partners in 180 countries under the banner of the Green Generation™ Earth Day Network is launching a worldwide education, action and media campaign connecting millions of individuals and catalyzing A Billion Acts of Green!

With events already being planned for Washington, D.C., London, Mumbai and Sydney, as well as others across the world, the week-long observance of Earth Day 40 is building momentum. During the two Global Days of Service (April 17th and 18th, 2010), millions of volunteers around the world will clean up parks and beaches, plant trees, recycle, and change light bulbs, generating A Billion Acts of Green. On April 22, the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, world citizens will commemorate a Global Day of Action by demanding a binding global climate change agreement from their governments. On April 25th, 2010, a Global Day of Celebration will honor and celebrate our volunteers' contributions and commitment to the environment with musical acts and speakers in 40 cities around the world.

Athletes and Artists to Speak for the Earth

Earth Day Network is asking leading athletes from around the world to join our Athletes for the Earth campaign. Beginning with the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, where Earth Day Network will host a welcome center, Athletes for the Earth will involve athletes as spokespeople for Earth Day, harnessing their global voices to address climate change. Arts for the Earth will invite artists, dancers, filmmakers and others to produce art pieces and performances that highlight environmental themes.

EPA Administrator Applauds EDN School Greenings

On, June 9th, Earth Day Network partner school Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology (TJHSST) in Alexandria, VA unveiled a long-awaited 3.85 k/W solar panel system with EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson.

Earth Day Network-Sponsored Teachers Win National Honors

Several teachers who work with Earth Day Network have won prestigious national awards including: Barry Latham and Jill Krysinski at Bloom High School who each won BP's A+ for Energy Program's $10,000 grants, Donna Burrus and her students at Fayette Academy who were named Top National Energy Education Development (NEED) Senior School of the year, and Kevin Volk at Cesar Chavez Elementary was awarded a $10,000 grant from the Solar Schools Program.

Greening Projects in Los Angeles and DC Connect Students with the Environment

Thanks to a generous grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation, EDN's Education team completed a school greening project at Belmont High School in central Los Angeles, CA on April 17, 2009. Greening projects included: Installing 85 "smart" powerstrips - in addition to implementing several hundred energy-efficient lightbulbs and the creation of a 2.1 k/W photovoltaic solar educational display to serve as a hands-on learning tool and power source for the school and local community.

On Tuesday, May 5th, 2009, EDN completed a school greening project at Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School (TMA) in Anacostia, Washington, DC. EDN and partners from the University of Phoenix and the National Audubon Society's TogetherGreenprogram worked with TMA teachers, students, and community volunteers to add several improvements to the school's building and grounds including: Conducting a US-EPA EnergySTAR Rating Program energy audit to show the benefits of school greening and allow teachers and students to track their energy generation and savings; and painting a large student-designed, non-toxic eco-mural to be hung on a prominent wall of the school.

Millions Read About The No Idling Campaign

EDN's No Idling Campaign website, in partnership with the Clean Air Campaign, Inc. and sponsored by the UPS Foundation, has received over a million hits since its launch in February 2009, and over 1,000 material downloads by individuals across the U.S. and world. The brand new Green Your School website, has also been viewed by over 19,000 people as of May 31st with over 2,700 material downloads, giving students everywhere access to over 300 pages of information, lesson plans and student action plans on nearly every aspect of greening one's school. Join the movement to protect the air quality in and around our schools today!

Earth Day Network Co-Sponsors Panel with Senator Murray and Senator Reed

On Friday, June 19th, Earth Day Network co-sponsored a panel titled "Preparing all Americans for the Opportunities of the New Green Economy: the Future of Environmental and Sustainability Education and Training." Sponsored by Senator Murray and Senator Reed, the panel of leading education experts addressed the need for all Americans to be prepared for the transition to the green economy through sustainability and environmental education and training.

Adopt a Hero: Goldman Prize Now Lets Supporters Donate to their Favorite Projects

Just two months after Earth Day Network announced that Maria Gunnoe, our courageous, coal-fighting nominee for the 2009 Goldman Prize, had been a recipient of the honor, we have more good news: Goldman Environmental Prize and the Global Greengrants Fund have partnered to allow you to support the work of your favorite environmental advocates.

Claim Your Zumbox

What happens when all mail can be sent and delivered online to any street address in a paperless form? That's the question Zumbox is answering. The company, which supported Earth Day on the National Mall 2009, has created a paperless postal system with a digital mailbox for every street address in the U.S.

Zumbox enables people to go paperless with all their postal mail - bills, statements, catalogs and more - thereby reducing their environmental impact. Zumbox users can even request exclusive paperless delivery, which notifies the individual mail sender of their preference. Welcome to Mail 2.0.

Join the paperless movement and claim your Zumbox today at www.zumbox.com.

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