Get Ready for Earth Day 2024!
Redlands will be celebrating on Saturday 20th, 2024!
A Day of Climate Action in Redlands
A day for the Redlands community, led by the Redlands community.
See more pictures from Inaugural Redlands Earth Day, 2023 in Our Picture Gallery.
Earth Day 2023 (1).mp4Imagine! A community-wide Day of Climate Action in Redlands to celebrate Earth Day 2023.
Hundreds of volunteers from every part of town worked on projects to help slow the warming and prepare Redlands for more severe climate impacts. At the end of the day, we all came together at Smiley Park to report on our accomplishments and celebrate with music, information tables, speakers and a FREE lunch for all project participants. Read more about the Local Climate Impacts these projects addressed.
Overall, we had 34 organizations and individuals sign up as Project Hosts! By the week before Earth Day, more than 500 had registered online! Thanks to the support of the City, IERCD, and the San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District, we did it!
We now look forward to A Day of Climate Action for Earth Day 2024. Please put April 20th on your calendar!
Read more on A Day of Climate Action in the News...
Why Celebrate A Day of Climate Action?
Climate action projects throughout the community will give residents ideas for what they can do as families, neighborhoods and organizations to become more climate resilient. Some projects will give participants hands-on experience; others will be more educational or informational. Residents will benefit from having a chance to get acquainted with other concerned people in our community and seeing that there are things we can do right here where we live to soften the blows of climate impacts and reduce carbon emissions. Whether you participate as a Project Host or a Participant, you don't need to know a lot about climate change. All you need is the concern and the desire to make a difference. This will be a learning opportunity for everyone!
How Can You Participate as an Individual?
Climate action projects are being hosted the morning of Saturday April 22 by many different groups and organizations in town. Just choose the project you would like to participate in and specify the project site in your registration.
At 12:30 pm there will be a celebration of accomplishments and a free lunch for all participants downtown at Smiley Park. You will receive a FREE lunch token at your project site.
How Can Your Group Host a Project?
What does a project host do?
Project Hosts are groups which choose a project, design and organize it, provide materials needed, recruit constituents, and invite public participation by registering it on the Earth Day website.
Check back in for 2024 dates.
Project hosts may also have a table at the celebration event at Smiley Park to continue outreach and community engagement.
Earth Day - Then & Now
The first Earth Day was held in 1970 in the U.S. to highlight important environmental issues. It is now a global event with the aim of educating people and encouraging environmental action. The acceleration of climate change has brought new urgency and significance to this annual event, reminding us of what is at stake.
Carbon emissions reached an all-time high in 2022. The impacts are being felt worldwide, including here in Redlands with increasing heat and drought. We are on a dangerous path toward a global temperature increase of more than 2.0C (3.6F). Scientists say that immediate and unprecedented action is needed on all levels. We can start right where we live.
