EARTH DAY, 22 APRIL 2025
Earth Day is an annual event held on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held in 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally through earthday.org including 1 billion people in more than 193 countries. In 1969 at a UNESCO conference in San Francisco, peace activist John McConnell proposed a day to honor the Earth and the concept of peace.
Earth Day’s 2025 theme is OUR POWER, OUR PLANET, calling for everyone to unite around renewable energy so we can triple clean electricity by 2030. How can you help? Join us for Earth Action Day by educating, advocating, and mobilizing your communities. Create or find an Earth Action event on our map, and get out the word on social media. Below you’ll find resources (organizing tools, quizzes and more) to help you take action this Earth Day, April 22nd, and every day.
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DEGROWTH
Wikipedia definition
Degrowth is an academic and social movement critical of the concept of growth in gross domestic product as a measure of human and economic development. The idea of degrowth is based on ideas and research from economic anthropology, ecological economics, environmental sciences, and development studies. It argues that modern capitalism's unitary focus on growth causes widespread ecological damage and is unnecessary for the further increase of human living standards. Degrowth theory has been met with both academic acclaim and considerable criticism.
Degrowth's main argument is that an infinite expansion of the economy is fundamentally contradictory to the finiteness of material resources on Earth. It argues that economic growth measured by GDP should be abandoned as a policy objective. Policy should instead focus on economic and social metrics such as life expectancy, health, education, housing, and ecologically sustainable work as indicators of both ecosystems and human well-being. Degrowth theorists posit that this would increase human living standards and ecological preservation even as GDP growth slows.
Degrowth theory is highly critical of free market capitalism, and it highlights the importance of extensive public services, care work, self-organization, commons, relational goods, community, and work sharing. Degrowth theory partly orients itself as a critique of green capitalism or as a radical alternative to the market-based, sustainable development goal (SDG) model of addressing ecological overshoot and environmental collapse.
Uploaded: 13 March 2025
PHOTO: Mike Armitage
LOW CARBON ENERGY
Renewables industry welcomes Prime Minister's new targets
RenewableUK
A speech today from the Prime Minister confirmed the Government’s commitment to achieve at least 95% low carbon energy generation by 2030 by accelerating the deployment of renewables, as well as reforming planning rules and setting a target to fast track 150 decisions on major infrastructure by the end of the current Parliament.
Commenting on these commitments, which form part of the backbone of the Government’s ‘Plan for Change’, RenewableUK’s Chief Executive Dan McGrail said:
“The drumbeat of policy announcements we’ve seen from Government, which they’ve built on today, is really grabbing the attention of clean energy investors. The prize, if we can get the right framework in place to deliver the Prime Minister’s clean power mission, is tens of billions of pounds of investment in renewable energy in the UK, increased energy security for billpayers and thousands of new jobs. We could see 100,000 jobs in offshore wind alone by 2030.
“Increasing the roll out of new wind and solar farms in the UK is clearly going to require us to speed up planning approvals, so it’s great to see Government put firm targets in place for the number of major infrastructure projects it will confirm in the next five years.”
Wild Bengal Tiger Cub, Central India
TV
A S I A
Asia is the new series exploring the amazing wildlife and natural wonders of our planet’s largest continent, presented by the master himself - Sir David Attenborough.
Across seven episodes exploring each corner of this remarkable part of our planet, audiences will journey through Asia’s most stunning landscapes, witness a wealth of wildlife, and uncover stories of extraordinary unseen animal behaviour.
Filmed over the course of nearly four years, this is the first time that Asia - home to the highest mountain range, the deepest ocean, the tallest jungles, and the biggest cave - has been the focus of a landmark BBC wildlife series.
Uploaded: 04 November 2024