Earth Day 2025: Our Power, Our Planet
Earth Day invites us to exercise our collective power to build a fairer and more prosperous future for all
Every 22nd of April, Earth Day reminds us of a fundamental truth: ecosystems are the basis sustaining life on Earth. Their regeneration is essential to guaranteeing the planet’s equilibrium and wellbeing of those who live here. In the face of environmental challenges, 2025 poses a vital question: what can we do to make a difference?
The response is in the slogan selected for this year: Our Power, Our Planet. Because change is not only borne out of big international agreements: it starts with our daily decisions and becomes stronger through collective action, from citizens to corporations, governments to communities.
The campaign this year focuses on the transition to renewable energies as the unavoidable path toward a more efficient energy future accessible to all.
What will I learn from this article?
Why do we celebrate Earth Day?
Earth Day is a date marked in the United Nations (UN) official calendar launched by US senator Gaylord Nelson.
It aims to create common awareness about the problems endangering the survival of the planet: overpopulation, biodiversity conservation, and pollution, among others.
It’s a day to pay tribute to our planet and recognize the Earth as our home, as expressed by different cultures throughout history, highlighting the interdependence of many ecosystems and the living beings that inhabit them.
Earth Day 2025: Our Power, Our Planet
This 22nd of April represents Earth Day’s 55th anniversary and it is being celebrated under the message:
“Our Power, Our Planet”
The idea revolves around the concept of a positive society: a model of society based on projects and initiatives which contribute to generating a favorable balance of community wellbeing.
This year’s campaign, led by EarthDay.org, focuses on the collective power of citizens in accelerating the transition toward a resilient, emission-free future, only possible if we commit to clean, renewable energies and leave behind our dependence on fossil fuels.
The aim is ambitious, but feasible: triple the global production of renewable electricity before 2030. A key step not only to mitigating climate change, but also in guaranteeing fair, equitable access to energy worldwide.
The campaign also underlines the social benefits of this systemic change:
- Improvement of air quality and public health
- More accessible and stable energy supply for millions of people
- Creation of more than 14 million green jobs worldwide
- Reduction of energy inequality between countries and communities.
This global movement also involves a call for citizen action: to consume responsibly, adopt clean energy solutions, insist upon a bigger commitment from corporations, and to participate in local events – just some of the ways in which the power we share can be activated.
An Earth Action Day will be held under the framework of Earth Day 2025 as a way for people to participate via local activities such as tree planting, clean energy fairs, neighborhood meetings, educational workshops, and community clean-ups. The idea is to empower people so that they are not only informed, but also act and become leaders within their own communities.
Because people power is what is driving this transformation.
Sources
- https://www.earthday.org/
- https://www.un.org/es/observances/earth-day
