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National School Lunch Week :


Support Our NSLW Campaign:
But a shirtRead on Huffington Post:
“Entrepreneurs, Pissed-Off Parents and the New Standards: An Opportunity  for a School Food Revolution” by  Kathleen Rogers & Anthony Geraci.

Nothing is more important than our children’s health. Yet, school food often falls short of proper nutritional and sustainability standards.
There’s no better time to highlight the importance of healthy, sustainable school food than during National School Lunch Week: October 15 – 19. And Earth Day Network is here to help.
Check out our National School Lunch Week campaign website to learn more and to see a special video message from the Harlem Globetrotters.
Make a commitment to talk to your kids about where their food comes from and how it affects their health and the environment. Then, ask local school administrators to participate in National School Lunch Week with school-wide observances.
Finally, tell your kids about our National School Lunch Week poster contest, and have them enter to win $100 and other prizes.

Together, we can ensure a bright, healthy and green future for America’s kids.
– The Earth Day Network Team

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You decide what matters : Vote


Earth Day Network has a chance to win $10,000 or more to support our green schools and environmental education campaigns through the Chase Community Giving competition! We just need your votes on Facebook.

Click here to vote for Earth Day Network.*

If you support our work to grow the environmental movement, create healthy green schools, plant millions of trees worldwide, empower women, educate voters, protect biodiversity and more, please take a moment to vote for us. With a couple of mouse clicks, you can help ensure these vital programs have the funding they need.

You get two votes*, and they must be used on two different charities, so please consider also voting for our partner organization, Worldwatch Institute.

– The Earth Day Network Team

*Anyone with a Facebook account can vote. Voting is open September 6-19, 2012. If you need help voting, you can find instructions here. If you happen to be a Chase customer, you get two additional votes; just login to ChaseGiving.com to claim those votes. Please then vote a second time for Earth Day Network and Worldwatch Institute.

Dear Carmen,

Earth Day Network has a chance to win $10,000 or more to support our green schools and environmental education campaigns through the Chase Community Giving competition! We just need your votes on Facebook.

Click here to vote for Earth Day Network.*

If you support our work to grow the environmental movement, create healthy green schools, plant millions of trees worldwide, empower women, educate voters, protect biodiversity and more, please take a moment to vote for us. With a couple of mouse clicks, you can help ensure these vital programs have the funding they need.

You get two votes*, and they must be used on two different charities, so please consider also voting for our partner organization, Worldwatch Institute.

– The Earth Day Network Team

*Anyone with a Facebook account can vote. Voting is open September 6-19, 2012. If you need help voting, you can find instructions here. If you happen to be a Chase customer, you get two additional votes; just login to ChaseGiving.com to claim those votes. Please then vote a second time for Earth Day Network and Worldwatch Institute.

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Sign the petition to end fossil fuel subsidies

From June 20-22, the eyes of the world will be on Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. World leaders, drawn by the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (aka “Rio+20”), will decide how to deal with a broad range of issues that affect the environment. Earth Day Network will be there to make sure your voices are heard.

You can learn more at www.earthday.org/rio.

Rio+20 offers a chance to jumpstart the green economy and chart a course to a sustainable future. But this will be next to impossible if fossil fuel subsidies continue hampering the progress of clean energy technology.

Please sign this petition asking leaders at Rio+20 to create a plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies around the world. And then share the petition with friends.

– The Earth Day Network Team
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Earth: mobilized. Keep going!


Check  the world premiere of  Grammy-winner  Esperanza Spalding’s “Endangered Species” video – done especially for Earth  Day!

Your donations help power the movement.

Approximately one billion people in 192  countries took action for Earth Day 2012! From Cairo to Beijing, Melbourne  to Rome, Rio to St. Louis, communities everywhere stood united to Mobilize the  Earth™. The accomplishments are too numerous to name and pouring in every day.

Earth Day Network and its partners worked  together on events across Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and other countries  throughout the Middle East. Our office in Kolkata coordinated nearly 700 events in India alone. There  were massive rallies in New York, Montreal and Seoul, to name a few. The rally  in Washington, D.C., by the steps of the Capitol, was watched all over the  globe as it was streamed live on the web.

More than a day of  service, Earth Day 2012 has been weeks of mobilization that are growing and  galvanizing the environmental movement, making our leaders take notice, and  holding them accountable.

Through Earth Day Network’s Campaign for Communities,  the number of elected officials participating in Earth Day events around the  world was one of the highest we have ever seen. This Earth Day renewed the  work that local governments are doing not only to clean up their communities  and spread environmental awareness but to actually reduce global warming  pollution in the face of national and international inaction.

Thousands of  students from 291 universities in 6 continents, 49 countries, and 36 U.S.  states came together for MobilizeU. Tens of thousands of students have been activated through  MobilizeU, and more than 5.5 million students have been impacted as their  universities were mobilized.

In the U.S., our work led the White House to host its first  summit on environmental education, announce the creation of a special taskforce  on environmental education, and issue an official Earth Day proclamation on the  benefits of green schools. Moreover, the Department of Education announced the  first round of winners in the Green Ribbon Schools program – a monumental  accomplishment that has been years in the making for the entire movement.

And, after only two years…

We reached A Billion Acts of Green®!

A Billion Acts of Green is a global referendum on the  environment, and your pledges have made it the largest environmental service  campaign in the world. It shows the breadth of support for strong, coordinated  action to deal with our most pressing environmental challenges. And we’re going  to take this achievement to world leaders and demand just that.

But, the campaign isn’t over…

Continue to add your  commitments to A Billion Acts of Green as we make our way to the NEXT  billion!

To learn more about the amazing work inspired by Earth  Day 2012, go to www.earthday.org/2012.  To see photos of Earth Day 2012 events from all over the world, go here.

– The Earth Day Network Team

www.earthday.org

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Join Environmentalists for Obama


Earth Day.

A big day for the environment — but to protect our air, land, and water, we have to make every single day count between now and November 6th.

President Obama knows we don’t have to sacrifice clean air and clean water to create jobs and grow our economy. But time and again, we’ve seen that our opponents are willing to play politics with the health of our natural resources — and the American people — just to protect the bottom line of their special-interest allies.
If it was up to them, we’d have no EPA working to protect our kids from harmful air pollution or make sure our water is safe to drink — polluters would once again have a free pass. And I probably don’t need to remind you of their views on climate change.

So, as we pause to appreciate our planet, say you’re standing with the only candidate in this race who’s fighting for it:

Join Environmentalists for Obama.


This community will help spread the word about the President’s record on the environment and what’s at stake in this election.
President Obama has already taken historic  steps to clean up our air and water, reduce our dependence on foreign oil, and bring ecosystems like the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, and Florida Everglades back to life.

 This is what that kind of change looks like:
 — Setting the first-ever national standards on mercury and other forms of toxic air pollution from power plants, which will prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths, 4,700 heart attacks, and 130,000 asthma attacks every year when fully implemented

— Developing fuel efficiency standards that will nearly double fuel economy for cars and light trucks by 2025

— and save families thousands of dollars at the pump and save our country millions of barrels of oil

— Establishing safeguards to cut interstate soot and smog-forming pollution from power plants by more than 50 percent and improve air quality for more than 75 percent of Americans

— Investing more in clean energy than ever before — and putting us on track to double our use of renewable sources by the end of the year

— Signing one of the largest expansions of wilderness protections in a generation, setting aside more than 2 million acres of land

All of that is on the line — along with the chance to keep going.
We simply can’t afford a White House that is skeptical about the human impact on climate change and continues to give Big Oil taxpayer giveaways at a time of record profits.
It’s on us to make sure that doesn’t happen — right now, President Obama needs you to have his back.
If you’re ready to fight alongside him, join Environmentalists for Obama today:
Thanks,
James
James Kvaal National Policy Director Obama for America
P.S. — Check out a special Earth Day message from President Obama here.