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EARTH DAY NETWORK 2020 PRESS KIT
Transcript of EDN 2019 Press Kit · 2020-04-21 · EDN 2019 Press Kit Author: Justine Sullivan Keywords:...
E A R T H D A Y N E T W O R K2 0 2 0 P R E S S K I T
Earth Day Network
1752 N St NW, 7th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 518-0044
Website: www.earthday.org
Email: [email protected]
A B O U T E A R T H D A Y N E T W O R K
Earth Day Network
1616 P Street NW, Suite 340
Washington, DC 20009
(202)518-0044
Website: www.earthday.org
Email: [email protected]
Earth Day Network’s mission is to diversify, educate
and activate the environmental movement
worldwide.
Growing out of the first Earth Day, Earth Day
Network is the world’s largest recruiter to the
environmental movement, working with more than
75,000 partners in nearly 192 countries to build
environmental democracy.
More than 1 billion people now participate in
Earth Day activities each year, making it the
largest civic observance in the world. We work
through a combination of education, public policy,
and consumer campaigns.
Every year the Earth Day Network, as organizers of
the original Earth Day, selects an environmental
priority to engage the global public. The enormous
challenges – but also the vast opportunities – of
acting on climate change have distinguished
climate action as the most pressing topic for the
50th anniversary year as nations look to increase
the ambition of their climate action plans to meet
the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate
change.
2020 has to be the year of enormous, ambitious
change that will take the promise of the positive
action underway and make it bigger and bolder
worldwide.
To mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, Earth
Day Network is launching a raft of initiatives to
provide individuals with new and impactful
ways to act, including:
- Vote Earth
- The Great Global Cleanup
- Earth Challenge 2020
- A Billion Acts of Green
E A R T H D A Y N E T W O R K : W H O W E A R E
Kathleen Rogers is the President of Earth Day Network. Kathleen has developed Earth Day Network into ayear-round policy and activist organization. Now more than 1 billion people participate in Earth Day in 192countries. Kathleen has been at the vanguard of developing innovative financial mechanisms to support green buildingsand schools. Kathleen also founded Earth Day Network’s groundbreaking Billion Acts of Green program, whichhas now recorded close to 3 billion individual actions to improve the environment.She is a frequent commentator on environmental issues in the media and has appeared on CNN, Fox News,and NPR, as well as in Time Magazine, The Washington Post, the New York Times, and The Los AngelesTimes and many other international and national newspapers and journals. Prior to her work at Earth Day Network, Kathleen held senior positions with the National Audubon Society, theEnvironmental Law Institute, and two U.S. Olympic Organizing Committees. Kathleen serves on various boards and as Regional Focal point for North America Region of the Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Network of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), now known as the GEF-CSO Network to serve a four-year term from June 30, 2018, to June 29, 2022.
Denis Hayes is president and CEO of Bullitt Foundation, which built the “world’s greenest officebuilding” [www.Bullittcenter.org]. Mr. Hayes is perhaps best known for having been the National Coordinator of the first Earth Day when he was25 and then expanding the event to 170 nations over the subsequent four decades. During the Carter Administration, Denis directed the federal Solar Energy Research Institute (now NREL). Hehas been a senior fellow at the Worldwatch Institute, director of the Illinois Energy Office, professor ofengineering at Stanford University, and a Silicon Valley attorney. Denis has received the national Jefferson Medal for Outstanding Public Service as well as the highest awardsbestowed by the Sierra Club, the Humane Society of the United States, the National Wildlife Federation, theNatural Resources Council of America, the American Solar Energy Society, and the Commonwealth Club,among others. Time Magazine selected Hayes as one of its “Heroes of the Planet.”
Denis Hayes, Board Chair Emeritus; President and CEO, The Bullitt Foundation
Kathleen Rogers, President
Karuna A. Singh, Country Director for Earth Day India, joined Earth Day Network in March 2010, after workingfor 24 years at the State Department’s US Consulate at Kolkata. A senior executive with them, Karuna’s major portfolio focus was on environmental affairs. She organizedseminars with environmental experts, workshops, film screenings, and other events to build awareness aboutclimate change and other environmental issues among a wide spectrum of audiences, from senior-levelpolicymakers to grassroots NGOs. Karuna worked to inspire youth to work for the environment and organizedspecial media events on environmental reporting. Her work area covered 12 states of eastern and northeastern India, a region with a population of around 300million that borders several countries. Karuna also helped put together cross-border programs on subjectssuch as Coastal Zone Management. She is also one of a small group of select persons who was trained byformer U.S. Vice President and Nobel Laureate Al Gore to make presentations on climate change issues.
Karuna Singh, Country Director, Earth Day Network – India
E A R T H D A Y N E T W O R K : F A C T S H E E T S
E DN Fact Sheet: Foodprints for the Future
EDN Fact Sheet: Bats
EDN Fact Sheet: Bees
EDN Fact Sheet: Global Species Decline
EDN Fact Sheet: How Much Disposable Plastic We Use
EDN Fact Sheet: Plastics in the Ocean
EDN Fact Sheet: Single Use Plastics
EDN Fact Sheet: Microplastics and Drinking Water
EDN Fact Sheet: The Plastic Threat to Human Health
E A R T H D A Y N E T W O R K : T O O L K I T S
EDN ToolKit: 2020 Teach- In Toolkit
EDN ToolKit: Plastic Pollution Primer and Action Toolkit
E A R T H D A Y N E T W O R K : P R E S S P H O T O S All Earth Day Logos are available for download on our press kit page.
E A R T H D A Y N E T W O R K : A D D I T I O N A LR E S O U R C E S
MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES
Nick Nuttall
International Director of
Communications
Europe
North America
Justine Sullivan
Director of Communications and
Digital Media
Denice Zek
Media Relations
Asia
Karuna Singh
Country Director, India
Learn more about Earth Day Network’s
campaigns across the world:
https://www.earthday.org/our-work/
Sign up to join Earth Day Network:
https://earthdaynetwork.salsalabs.org/joineart
hdaynetworksemaillist/index.html
Donate to Earth Day Network:
https://earthdaynetwork.salsalabs.org/maindo
nationform/index.html
