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Earth Day - Africa It’s not a day, it’s a movement.

Important message from Climate Justice Activist regina_magoke just for healthy, clean and sustainable environment.
02/25/2023

Important message from Climate Justice Activist regina_magoke just for healthy, clean and sustainable environment.

COMMUNIQUE RESPONSE OF GAMBIA ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE PERTINENT TO ACQUIT MONKEY PARK IN BIJILO.
10/27/2022

COMMUNIQUE RESPONSE OF GAMBIA ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE PERTINENT TO ACQUIT MONKEY PARK IN BIJILO.

How To Reuse Your Plastic in DIY Projects | What Are Ecobricks?
05/25/2022

How To Reuse Your Plastic in DIY Projects | What Are Ecobricks?

Here’s how to turn your old plastic bottles and chip bags into usable “bricks” for your next DIY project.

"A school in Lagos, Nigeria, is accepting empty plastic bottles from parents in exchange for their children's school fee...
05/24/2022

"A school in Lagos, Nigeria, is accepting empty plastic bottles from parents in exchange for their children's school fees, thanks to a recycling project."
https://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00082245.html

A school in Lagos, Nigeria, is accepting empty plastic bottles from parents in exchange for their children's school fees, thanks to a recycling project. Through the Recycle Pay Project Initiative, Grace and her sister and co-founder Rose Amuzie, are offering low-cost educational services to low-inco...

"Residents of Nelson Mandela Bay say the municipality continues to ignore their demand for help with the area's severe w...
05/18/2022

"Residents of Nelson Mandela Bay say the municipality continues to ignore their demand for help with the area's severe water crisis"

Residents of Nelson Mandela Bay say the municipality continues to ignore their demand for help with the area's severe water crisis, Joseph Chirume of GroundUp reports. Residents and members of the Nelson Mandela Bay Water Crisis Committee blame the municipality for the metro's impending Day Zero. Da...

05/16/2022
"This is an exciting finding, because it means that waste plastic of suitable types can be permanently eliminated in a w...
05/16/2022

"This is an exciting finding, because it means that waste plastic of suitable types can be permanently eliminated in a way which generates enough revenue to make it more valuable than coal"

South African scientists have compared processes for converting waste plastic into energy or fuels and found that its potential exceeds that of coal, in terms both of energy yield per ton and of CO2 emissions, GroundUp reports. The researchers used a methodology referred to as process targeting, wh...

"Due to the uncontrolled flow of pollutants, led to fish deaths, algal blooms, and the spread of the ferocious waterweed...
05/13/2022

"Due to the uncontrolled flow of pollutants, led to fish deaths, algal blooms, and the spread of the ferocious waterweed hyacinth."

Communities around Lake Victoria, the world's second-largest lake, have relied on the body of water for food, energy, and water for generations. It has been estimated that the 30 million people's livelihoods are directly or indirectly to the Lake, which is estimated to generate U.S.$300-400 million....

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Earth Day Africa 50th Anniverary Celebrartion

On April 22nd 1970, 20 million people took to the streets, community centers, schools and university grounds of America to protest and demand action to change the declining state of the earth’s environment. The movement created mobilization that triggered new legislation in America and planted the seed for a worldwide environmental people’s movement that now engages more than 190 countries and a billion people annually. Earth Day will mark its 50th anniversary in April 2020 – we are hoping the people of Africa will make it the largest environmental movement on the continent!

Throughout Africa we see problematic environmental issues such as climate change, deforestation, improper waste management, desertification, water pollution and land degradation. There is an increase in drought, monsoons, flooding and famine. This has threatened the livelihood of people, species and ecosystems. We are calling on everyday citizens to rise-up and come together to engage the public, educate people about the environment, and act to make positive and sustainable changes to protect the earth that we all live on.

Earth Day is not a day, but a movement. Interested volunteers, organizations and schools are encouraged to empower one another and come together to act before, during and after April 2020. The 50th anniversary of Earth Day has the bold ambition of becoming the largest environmental movement to occur across Africa. Though the environmental challenges are enormous, individual voices can unite and act to build a movement that is large, connected, and impossible to ignore.