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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(1, 54, 86); text-decoration: none; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 23pt; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; text-transform: none;" class="">Start planning for Earth Day’s 50th anniversary</a></h2><div class="nameAndShare" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(196, 213, 227); height: 40px;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; height: 35px;" class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Posted by <a href="https://blogs.agu.org/geoedtrek/author/drlauraguertin/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 101, 164);" class="">Laura Guertin</a></em></p></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; clear: both;" class=""></div></div><div class="entry" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); min-height: 75px; width: auto;"><div class="addthis_tool at-above-post" data-url="https://blogs.agu.org/geoedtrek/2020/01/13/earth-day-50th/" data-title="Start planning for Earth Day's 50th anniversary - GeoEd Trek" data-description=""Earth Day 2020 will be far more than a day. It must be a historic moment when citizens of the world rise up in a united call for the creativity, innovation, ambition, and bravery that we need to meet our climate crisis and seize the enormous opportunities of a zero-carbon future."" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; clear: both;"></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" class="">Excerpt : </p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" class="">The theme of Earth Day 2020 is <span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: 700;" class="">climate action</span>.</p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 10px 20px; font-size: 17.5px; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);" class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">The enormous challenges — but also the vast opportunities — of acting on climate change have distinguished the issue as the most pressing topic for the 50th anniversary. Climate change represents the biggest challenge to the future of humanity and the life-support systems that make our world habitable.</em></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">At the end of 2020, nations will be expected to increase their national commitments to the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. The time is now for citizens to call for greater global ambition to tackle our climate crisis. Unless every country in the world steps up – and steps up with urgency and ambition — we are consigning current and future generations to a dangerous future.</em></p><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class=""><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" class="">Earth Day 2020 will be far more than a day. It must be a historic moment when citizens of the world rise up in a united call for the creativity, innovation, ambition, and bravery that we need to meet our climate crisis and seize the enormous opportunities of a zero-carbon future. — <a href="https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2020/" class="">https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2020/</a> </em></div></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" class="">So how will you encourage and mobilize your students, campus and community to take climate action?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" class="">On my campus, myself and another faculty member are directing students to record and produce “<a href="https://sites.psu.edu/psubwearthday/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 101, 164);" class="">50 Voices of Earth Day</a>” with interviews of 50 students, faculty, staff, and alumni on their views of Planet Earth. We’ll be releasing one podcast a day when we start the 50-day countdown to Earth Day.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;" class="">Whatever you decide to do, make sure this day (Wednesday, April 22, 2020) is not missed on your calendar!</p></div></div></div></div><div class="">
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