Earth Day 2025 🌍🌎🌏

Happy Earth Day my fellow Earthlings! Thought it was only right to create a quick post for today, a little spontaneous post to celebrate the amazing planet we live on.

Modern life tells us that we are invincible, that anything can be fixed with enough money and technology and that the future is guaranteed. Life is anything but. We have stopped waking up each morning filled with wonder at the fact we live on a huge rock that contains such an enormous diversity of life. When we look at ourselves we have stopped seeing nature, and instead have classified and organised until we have put the world into neat little categories with ourselves at the top. I personally do love a bit of structure, and I am quite a big fan of organisation, but we have to remember that as a society, it is all made up. None of it is really ‘real’. You and I have no more right to exist than an ant. This is all a bit deep, but the bottom line is: Earth is miraculous. It is everything. And it is the only one we have. So this Earth day, really celebrate our home like you would a birthday, because this planet is worth celebrating.

At this time in existence, every day is Earth Day. And everyday we should all be doing what we can to make a difference. But if after a relaxing Easter weekend you would like a few ideas of things you can slip into your day to celebrate while you get over the return to work/studies, here’s what I suggest…

• Get outside – Walk home, go into your garden, open a window. Look up at the sky and zoom out a little – isn’t it extraordinary? Look for life: follow a bee, lie on the ground and watch for beetles, look at your favourite flower. See things in the way you did as a child, full of wonder. This is the nature you are part of. This is your bit of the world to save. What a beautiful task 💚
• Pick up litter – On your way to work, when running errands, from the front of your home, if you see litter on the street or in natural spaces, pick it up and put it in the relevant bin. I recently read about this idea from Denmark, that you are CEO of everything in a 3 metre radius from you. The environment in that vicinity is your responsibility to look after, so if you see litter you pick it up. If someone looks like they need help, ask them. So if you see some litter when out and about, even if it’s not your fault, just pop it in the bin, and leave places better than when you found them 🗑️
• Do something different – Use today as an opportunity to switch off from autopilot. This evening, you could challenge yourself to cook something new using only what you have already in your cupboards or spend time on a hobby rather than social media. You could go out for a post-work stroll, or instead of getting a takeaway coffee, donate that same money to an environmental organisation. Charities that help us care for the planet rarely get the same fundraising events that other topics do, so if you can, donate towards sustainable projects. Learn somethings new about our planet, by watching a documentary or reading a book. Making a swap can change today from just a Tuesday to something a lot more impactful ✨

These are just a few actions so many of us can include in our lives today. Real action and sustainability unfortunately does not come from just doing something nice for one day of the year, we need to compound our actions day after day and person after person to see the change we are striving for. But in terms of marking today to celebrate the planet we live on, just take a moment to look around and remind yourself how astonishing it all is. Happy Earth Day!