Celebrate Earth Day 2023 with extra trees for free

Earth Day 2023 is on Saturday the 22nd of April and is celebrated internationally to raise the importance of further environmental and climate impact.

Earth Day 2023 marks an annual celebration of environmental achievements over the past year that contribute to long-term sustainability. However, this occasion also reiterates the need for expanding environmental protection and accelerating the mitigation of climate change. The greatest threats of the climate crisis will become more prevalent as we head towards the middle of the 21st century and Earth Day must help to create more climate impact.

This is why we are so invested in supporting Earth Day on the 22nd of April 2023. It recognizes that planting billions of trees across the world is one of the biggest and cheapest ways of taking CO2 out of the atmosphere to tackle the climate crisis, long-term. Not only do forests act as carbon sinks, but they also provide vital habitats for animals and ecological services for humans, such as purifying the air we breathe and regulating temperatures.

In 1970 Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson noticed people protesting the Vietnam War, but not putting any pressure on the US government about the environmental damage caused by oil spills, pesticides, and deadly smog.

People of all ages can take climate impact into their own hands by marching against polluters, planting trees, cleaning their communities, and reducing waste in their own homes (or even try zero waste) with smart Earth Day tips.

On Earth Day 2011, over 28 million trees were planted in Afghanistan for a "Plant Trees Not Bombs" campaign. In 2012, more than 100,000 people in China rode their bikes in order to reduce CO2 emissions and highlight the amount of pollution created by cars.

Humans today use about 50% more natural resources than we did 30 years ago, according to a report from Friends of the Earth. Despite occasions like Earth Day being over 50 years old.

On average, food accounts for 10 to 30% of a household’s carbon footprint, due to the emissions involved in food production and transportation, according to the Center for Sustainable Systems.

On the 20th anniversary, organisers of Earth Day decided it was time to take the occasion global and ensure that the positive influence increased each year. It kicked off massive initiatives to recycle and paved the way for the 1992 United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.