For Earth Day 2025, a look at renewable energy in the US by the numbers

For Earth Day 2025, a look at renewable energy in the US by the numbers

The 55th Earth Day is Tuesday, and the theme this year focuses on renewable energy — “Our Power, Our Planet.” Today we look at renewables in the U.S. Renewable energy resources This map by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory shows generalized areas that contain some of the most abundant renewable energy resources in the lower 48 states. The lab is the U.S. Department of Energy’s primary facility for power systems research and development. T…

Earth Day 2025 calls for renewable energy revolution

Earth Day 2025 is being marked across more than 190 countries, with campaigners urging governments and communities to back a global shift to renewable energy. The annual event, first held in 1970, celebrates its 55th anniversary this year. The theme is “Our Power, Our Planet”, focusing on accelerating clean energy targets agreed at COP28. Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, a former US senator, launched the movement in response to growing concern …

UK marks 55th Earth Day celebration with clean-ups, climate art and renewables push

Today (April 22) marks the 55th anniversary of Earth Day, celebrated around the world under the theme “Our Power, Our Planet.”

Individually or collecively we have the power to help the planet

This year’s Earth Day theme is “Our Power, Our Planet.”

55th Anniversary of Earth Day – Action Around the World

Washington, DC – On the 55th Anniversary of Earth Day, polls confirm that the vast majority of Americans support increasing investment and the immediate deployment of renewable energy.   EARTHDAY.ORG’s (EDO) two year renewable energy-focused theme,  Our Power, Our Planet, has inspired over 10,000 events in the U.S alone, backing our calls for the tripling of electricity generation via renewable energy sources by 2030, eliminating fossil fuels su…

Today is the 55th edition of World Earth Day, an anniversary that calls on everyone to commit to safeguarding the planet and whose theme this year is “Our Power, Our Planet”, inviting everyone to unite around renewable energy to triple clean electricity by 2030. World Earth Day is the largest environmental event, founded in 1970 at the behest of the American senator Gaylord Nelson and promoted even earlier by President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, e…